Nevertheless, its new government has stepped up the pursuit of militants in its tribal regions.
That would demonstrate to the people in the tribal regions that they can put their faith in the government.
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The recent operations are part of the Pakistani army's intensified drive against the Taliban in its restive tribal regions.
The strike was near the village of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, one of seven districts in Pakistan's tribal regions.
Some politicians are now speaking out, saying the Taliban problem in the tribal regions simply cannot be ignored any longer.
An answer emerges during a foray into the vast Rift Valley, in a place where the road bisects two tribal regions.
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They reportedly seized weapons and vehicles as well as troops from the paramilitary police, who provide security in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal regions.
Mahmood Shah, a Peshawar-based defense analyst who spent years working for military intelligence in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions that skirt the Afghanistan border.
There were 70 drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal regions in 2011, down from 118 in 2010, which saw the peak number of strikes since the program began.
There were 70 drone strikes in the tribal regions that year, down from 118 in 2010, which saw the peak number of strikes since the program began.
The coalition was elected in February but analysts say it has failed to find solutions to Pakistan's economic crisis and to the militants in its north-western tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
And tell us, before his visit to Kabul, President Musharraf signed a peace deal with pro-Taliban militants who are operating in the tribal regions in Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan.
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Law-enforcement authorities have uncovered no serious plots against U.S. or European targets that were traceable to militants who had received training in Pakistan's tribal regions after the drone program had been dramatically ramped up there.
Sixth, when Pakistan's government has done "peace" deals with the Taliban in the Pakistani tribal regions in 2005 and 2006 and in the northern region of Swat earlier this year, they were made following military setbacks by Pakistan's army.
The province has 24 districts, while FATA comprises seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions.
America has begun using aerial drones, and small ground strikes, in the tribal areas, the wild regions along the Pakistani-Afghan border.
In a reminder that the threat facing Pakistan has spread beyond northwestern regions such as Swat and tribal areas, an explosion Monday in the country's east killed at least nine people.
Competition between regions is expected to eclipse any tribal, ethnic or cultural splits.
But the practice is known to be especially common in Kurdish regions, where life is still largely organised around tribal structures and Islam, and where status and power are measured in numbers.
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