Securitizing the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderland: impacts on the Ahmadzai Wazirs

Taking ‘Ahmadzai Wazirs’ of erstwhile FATA, Pakistan as a case study, this research attempts to explore the impacts securitization discourse and border fencing on socio-cultural lives tribesmen who have lived for centuries in Afghanistan borderland area. This is done by focusing perceptions which Ahmadzai Wazir tribes state’s narrative, resultant them. In wake policy maker’s decision fence border, paper investigates perception community about ongoing project ways landers defy territorial notion state sovereignty. We thus try engage comparatively newer theoretical framework, theory investigate local people distinct cross-border order security from perspective borderland. The allows us see entity opposed hitherto dominant state-centred approach looking at region peripheries. A mixed method was employed get primary secondary data draw analysis.