The merger of the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is a key step to ending the region's much-criticised colonial-era governance system.
Demonstrations attended by thousands to demand improved security and the government's attention entered the seventh day after Pakistani tribal town Parachinar was hit by twin bomb blasts which killed 75 people.
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