Islamabad formally ended the law this year by merging the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. But in one part of former FATA, scores of members of rival clans were recently arrested in an apparent bid to establish government authority by enforcing collective responsibility.
Each of the thousands of protesters in a remote northwestern Pakistani city had either lost a relative or knows someone among the more than 250 people killed and wounded in the most recent bombings.
