The pakis give us small fry to keep dumb suckers like you happy. All your blah blah about automonmous regions customs culture history stainedoperationsgeoglobalterranweatherconditions is just the sound of one hand clapping, because Bin Laden is alive and well in Pakistan.
Spoken like a first class fool who has no idea what he/she is talking about - Nor has he /she ever stepped foot in the region to even have the slightest understanding of the real situation.
UBL, Zawahiri, J Haqqani, G Hekmatyar, M. Omar and another 3 or 4 HVTs you've likely never heard of are all eking out their survivals in between the Pak / Afghan border regions.
They are not surviving because of or with the help of any Gov't...they are eking out this survival because in the short run this region of the world put the variable of time on their side.