PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Akins, Harrison
TI  - Mashar versus Kashar in Pakistan’s FATA
AID  - 10.1525/as.2018.58.6.1136
DP  - 2018 Dec 01
TA  - Asian Survey
PG  - 1136--1159
VI  - 58
IP  - 6
4099  - http://as.ucpress.edu/content/58/6/1136.short
4100  - http://as.ucpress.edu/content/58/6/1136.full
AB  - In 2016, Pakistan introduced a five-year plan to repeal the Frontier Crimes Regulation of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and integrate the region into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The political conflict between mashar (elders), who are advantaged by the law, and kashar (youth), who are disadvantaged by it, has been an obstacle to reform. This article also demonstrates that this conflict has been an endemic feature of the law since its establishment by British authorities in 1901.