FATA - L Delay

There is a long history of commissions and reports on mainstreaming Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) -- all are now only of some historical and academic significance. Is the current proposed reform package also destined to become one of them? What are the hurdles on an issue over which there is almost national consensus? Except for two political parties -- PkMAP and JUI-F -- all parties big or small, left-centre and right support the mainstreaming of Fata through merger with KP, though differences on specific issues do exist.
Click anywhere above to go to the whole write up in 'The News on Sunday' 4 June 2017