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North Waziristan POLICY OPTIONS FOR POST CONFLICT REHABILITATION IN NORTH WAZIRISTAN BY Naveed Yousaf Sandhu Supervisor Prof. Dr. Syed Shabib-ul-Hasan Department of Public Administration University of Karachi Karachi - 2017 POLICY OPTIONS FOR POST CONFLICT REHABILITATION IN NORTH WAZIRISTAN BY Naveed Yousaf Sandhu A Dissertation submitted to Department of Public Administration, University of Karachi in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Public Administration University of Karachi Karachi - 2017 ii BOARD OF ADVANCED STUDIES & RESEARCH University of Karachi DECLARATION I, Mr. Naveed Yousaf Sandhu s/o Mr. Muhammad Yousaf Sandhu hereby declare that the thesis titled ―Policy Options for Post Conflict Rehabilitation in North Waziristan‖ submitted by me for the award of Ph.D degree in the Department of Public Administration is my own work and no part has been plagiarized from anywhere. Proper references are cited wherever necessary and appropriate credit has been given where the work from others has been quoted. I understand that the University reserves the right to cancel the degree if any of the above declaration is proved false before or even after the award of degree. Naveed Yousaf Sandhu Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Department of Public Administration University of Karachi, Pakistan 01 November, 2017 iii BOARD OF ADVANCED STUDIES & RESEARCH University of Karachi CERTIFICATE I have gone through the thesis titled ―Policy Options for Post Conflict Rehabilitation in North Waziristan‖ submitted to the Board of Advanced Studies & Research, university of Karachi by Mr. Naveed Yousaf Sandhu for the award of degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Public Administration and certify that to the best of my knowledge it contains no plagiarized material. Prof. Dr. Syed Shabib-ul-Hasan Research Supervisor Department of Public Administration University of Karachi, Pakistan ………… November, 2017 iv DEDICATION ―To all those who made supreme sacrifices for peace and humanity‖ v ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is indeed Allah Almighty‘s great blessing (who deserves all praises alone), which enabled me to prove equal to the research task. The completion of the research is indebted to exclusive excellence of researcher‘s extremely enterprising and inestimably dynamic Research Supervisor Professor Dr. Syed Shabib-ul-Hasan, who matured my approach towards the research project and also kept the research in bounds. I shall also remain grateful to Dr. Shahzad Hussain, and Dr. Noor-ul-Hadi, National Defence University Islamabad, who extended inexorable academic guidance to keep the efforts on right track for completion of the research objectives. I shall always remain obliged for indefatigable academic and research assistance rendered by Mr. Kashif Zaheer Kamboh, Chairman Youth Association of Pakistan. To complement the Maslow‘s Hierarchy of need theory, I am thankful to my parent organization for fulfilling my basic needs, my parents for their prayers and my wife for absolute support. I acknowledge the inspiration of my children Saad and Rafay. The task could have been much more difficult without their continuous pull and push. I would like to thank my office Superintendent Mr. Rahim Dad Khattak and Assistant Mr. Javed Ahmed for their cooperation in typing and compilation of the research work. Naveed Yousaf Sandhu vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement ................................................................................................................ vi Table of Contents ................................................................................................................vii List of Tables ...................................................................................................................... xiv List of Figures ................................................................................................................... xvi List of Graphs ................................................................................................................. xviii List of Annexures ............................................................................................................... xix List of Acronyms ................................................................................................................ xx Abstract (English) .............................................................................................................. xxi Abstract (Urdu) ............................................................................................................... xxiii INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 1 Statement of the Problem ............................................................................................... 4 Significance of Study .................................................................................................... 5 Research Questions ....................................................................................................... 6 Research Objectives ....................................................................................................... 6 Delimitations of Study .................................................................................................. 7 Scheme of Study ........................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 1: NORTH WAZIRISTAN; AN OVERVIEW ................................................. 10 1.1 Landmass ....................................................................................................................... 12 1.2 Water Sources .............................................................................................................. 13 1.2.1 Rivers ...................................................................................................................... 13 1.2.2 Seasonal Nullahs ..................................................................................................... 14 1.2.3 Springs ..................................................................................................................... 14 1.2.4 Dams and Reservoirs ............................................................................................... 14 1.3 Agriculture .................................................................................................................... 15 1.4 Livestock ...................................................................................................................... 16 vii 1.5 Forests ........................................................................................................................... 17 1.6 Minerals ........................................................................................................................ 17 1.7 Communication Infrastructure ...................................................................................... 19 1.8 Population ..................................................................................................................... 19 1.8.1 Population Distribution ........................................................................................... 21 1.8.2 Utmanzai Wazirs and Mehsuds ............................................................................... 22 1.8.3 Dawars ..................................................................................................................... 23 1.8.4 Saidgai ..................................................................................................................... 24 1.8.5 Gurbaz ..................................................................................................................... 24 1.8.6 Kharsin .................................................................................................................... 25 1.9 The Leadership .............................................................................................................. 25 1.9.1 The Maliks ............................................................................................................... 25 1.9.2 Religious Leadership ............................................................................................... 26 1.10 Politico-Legal System ................................................................................................ 26 1.10.1 Political System ..................................................................................................... 26 1.10.2 Legal System ......................................................................................................... 27 1.11 Administrative System ............................................................................................... 30 1.12 Law Enforcement System .......................................................................................... 31 1.12.1 Political Force ....................................................................................................... 31 1.12.2 Frontier Corps ....................................................................................................... 32 1.12.3 Pakistan Army ....................................................................................................... 32 1.13 Chapter Summary ....................................................................................................... 32 Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ..............................................................................
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