Abstract
Under a special law, the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), enforced
in the tribal areas of Pakistan, Political Agent (PA) is administrative
and judicial head of a political agency. A political agency is equal in
status to a district and Political Agent is equal to a Deputy
Commissioner. This paper aims to analyze the powers of Political
Agent (PA) under the Frontier Crimes Regulation. A Political Agent
belongs to the federal or provincial bureaucracy, having judicial
function of resolving the civil and criminal disputes in accordance with
FCR and Pakhtunwali. Besides, the PA executes numerous powers like
executive function as well as responsibility of a revenue collector. Thus
the PA possesses unbridled powers; and such authority in the hand of
one man creates chaos in the mind of the people of FATA. The idea to
reduce the power of PA has strongly been supported by the
respondents, demanding the extension of judicial courts as well as the
jurisdiction of High Court and Supreme Court to FATA. Moreover, it
has also been proposed that the power of PA ought to be transferred
into the hand of the elected local government representative in FATA.
Fakhr-ul-Islam, Aftab Khan. (2017) PEOPLE’S PERCEPTION ABOUT THE POWERS OF POLITICAL AGENT IN THE FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREAS (FATA): A CASE STUDY OF MOHMAND AGENCY, Pakistan , Volume 53, Issue 1.
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