It is not safe to go into their tribal areas.

He said the government had increased the development budget for the tribal areas by 400 percent, to $67 million.

People say that they give life to a child as the majority of tribal areas have no doctors.

Meanwhile, the problems continue to spread to other part of the tribal areas, and beyond.

The lack of intelligence from human sources in the tribal areas has been the main problem, the officials said.

It is one of the eight tribal areas, better known as agencies in Pakistan.

In those days officers were reluctant to visit the tribal areas.

It was expected that all tribal areas would be cleared by June 2010.

Patient's relatives coming from tribal areas have also been served free food during their stay at the hospital.

"This would mean more attacks inside our tribal areas, something we have been arguing against with the Americans."