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An hour later the proposal was under review.A poll published this year found that 39% of tribesmen wanted the FCR to be amended and 31% want it abolished.

Pakistan inherited what the British had created as a buffer zone where, in the words of one historian, "tribesmen were like tigers in a national park" and omnipotent political agents acted as gamekeepers.Pakistan's new prime minister, the PPP's Yousaf Raza Gillani, said he would abolish the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR).

The conviction of Mr Afridi, tried under the British-era Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) that still govern Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region, will only deepen the continuing antagonism between the US and Pakistan.

One of the things I am proud of doing when I was on Pakistan's Senate Human Rights Committee and the Senate Defence Committee included getting an amendment unanimously passed to change the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), and successfully returning land to peasant farmers that had been illegally taken from them by the military.

She worked for FCR, a waste management and recycling company, and then returned to Exotica as chief financial officer and helped the company grow into a multimillion-dollar business.

The FCR also keeps Afridi's fate firmly in the hands of the Pakistani government, giving it the flexibility to use Afridi as a bargaining chip with the Americans at a later point, as many suspect will happen.

Some analysts suspect the claims about Afridi's involvement with militant groups may have been cobbled together after the court refused to take a view on his activities for the CIA, which happened well outside the tribal areas where the FCR writ runs.

Securing a conviction under the peculiar FCR process under which defendants are denied the right to lawyers is much easier, however.

"We appear to have had a miscommunication," said Mr. Newman, president of FCR Group, a commercial real estate development company in Williamsburg that is also responsible for the nearby Water Country U.S.A. amusement park.