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.