2004-03-20: News articles about the fighting in Pakistan show the following subdivisions of F.A.T.A.: Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzul, Kurram, North Waziristan, and South Waziristan. There should be one more, situated between Zhob and Dera Ismail Khan. The status of these divisions is not mentioned, but I would assume they were districts until otherwise informed.

I have received spreadsheets from Karem Abdalla and Mario Pezza showing more current divisions of Pakistan, with 1998 census figures. I used them as a basis for updating the list of divisions. Here is a map  of the current divisions.

On the primary level, Pakistan is divided into four provinces, two centrally administered areas, a territory, and a capital territory. On the secondary level, the provinces are subdivided into divisions; the other types have no subdivisions at the secondary level, so I treat them as being a single subdivision each. The subdivisions on the tertiary level are districts, along with some agencies in Federally Administered Tribal Areas. On the quaternary level, districts are subdivided into tehsils. This table shows the secondary-level subdivisions of Pakistan.

Change history:

1. 1969-07-28: Malakand division formed by uniting Chitral, Dir, and Swat hill states (part of Peshawar division?). As a result of this change, the divisions of West Pakistan province (equivalent to modern-day Pakistan) were: Bahawalpur, Dera Ismail Khan, Hyderabad, Kalat, Karachi, Khairpur, Lahore, Malakand, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, and Sargodha. Capitals of divisions had the same name as the divisions themselves, except that the capital of Malakand was Saidu, and Rawalpindi was apparently administered from Islamabad.
2. 1970-07-01: By the West Pakistan Dissolution Order of 1970, West Pakistan province was split into four provinces and Islamabad capital territory. Baluchistan province contained Kalat, Quetta, and the largest section of Karachi divisions. Northwest Frontier province contained Dera Ismail Khan, Malakand, and Peshawar divisions. Punjab province contained Bahawalpur, Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, and Sargodha divisions, as well as most of Pakistan's share of Jammu and Kashmir. Sind province consisted of Hyderabad and Khairpur divisions, plus a small part of Karachi division including the city of Karachi itself.
3. ~1975: Federally Administered Tribal Areas formed by taking the western parts of Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar districts from North West Frontier province. Hazara and Kohat divisions split from Peshawar; Gujranwala division formed from parts of Lahore and Rawalpindi; Dera Ghazi Khan division split from Multan; Faisalabad division split from Sarghodha; Sibi division formed from parts of Kalat and Quetta; Las Bela district transferred from Karachi division to Kalat division, where it already formed part of Baluchistan province; Makran division split from Kalat. Name of Khairpur division changed to Sukkur. (This entry represents a comparison between maps of the divisions of Pakistan dated 1967-12 and 1983.) Pakistan now consisted of these divisions:

1. ~1990: Nasirabad division split from Sibi; Zhob division split from Quetta; Bannu division split from Dera Ismail Khan; Mardan division split from Peshawar; Larkana division split from Sukkur; Mirpur Khas division split from Hyderabad. Capital of Kalat division moved from Kalat to Khuzdar. (This entry comes from a comparison between the 1983 map and a map from ~2002.)

Other names of subdivisions:

1. Sukkur: Sakhar (variant)
2. Zhob: Loralai (variant)