This was stated by speakers at a one-day roundtable on “Mainstreaming of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Tribal Districts (K-PTDs) into national and political architecture: Challenges and solutions” and mainstreaming Gilgit-Baltistan: Concerns, reservations and aspirations”. The dialogue was organised by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) in Islamabad on Thursday. Former K-P governor Owais Ahmed Ghani said that the international dimension surrounding erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has been dominated by the geopolitical interests of competing nation-states of turning the Hindukush into a geopolitical faultline. Policies and actions of the US, the world’s biggest hegemon, will decide the future course of South Asia geopolitics,” he said. that will need to be respected and upheld.

Source: The Express Tribune March 01, 2019 04:18 UTC