Post-Merger Prospects of Perpetual Peace in Newly Merged Districts (NMDs) - Erstwhile FATAs From Human Security Perspective
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2022-08
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UMT.lahore
Abstract
The FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) in northwest Islamic Republic of Pakistan
have witnessed an unprecedented prolonged conflict, which have severely damaged the security
and social fabric of the tribal society with a death toll exceeding over 0.13 Million. In 2018,
these tribal Areas were merged with the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in a struggle to
standardize the region and recover the peace. This thesis investigates the areas that, after 2018,
came to be known as the NMDs (Newly Merged Tribal Districts). This thesis looks at the social,
economic, and political situation of this NMDs and how people's sense of security has been
affected. This thesis focuses on human centered security approach in order to bring out people's
feelings of security both during and after violent conflict, the reconstruction of NMDs in a post
FATA-KPK merger security environment influenced by a plethora of elements disrupting the
peace process in NMDs with an intent to contribute towards a perpetual peace acquisition for
the oppressed people of NMDs living amid the chaos between guns, cap and beret consequential
to the two and half decades old unsolicited state of conflict in the area as an aftermath of U.S.
invasion of Afghanistan since 2001.