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To add to the woes of the Taliban, they not only have to defend themselves against a major Pakistani offensive and U.S drone attacks, Taliban is also under heavy fire from the pro-government tribal militias in the northwest region of Pakistan, also known as FATA or Federally Administered Areas, a large barren areas with almost nil governance and law [...]

A group of Taliban fighters in a tribal region on the border of Afghanistan have claimed that, they no longer consider the ‘peace deal’ with the Pakistani government a viable one. This clearly indicates that the uneasy truce in much of the FATA or Federally Administered Tribal Areas is coming to end and could result in violent backlash from [...]