It's extremely comparable in my opinion. You assume tribals are turning a blind eye, just the same way the goray assumed we did. Lakki Marwat has a population of 70,000 people, Bannu has 50,000 (the town, the district has like 1.3 million) - which village uncle do you expect to take a register there?
We have a border, the state took money to build a fence and man it - why is it failing to do that? There is a police force, we have multiple intelligence agencies - what are they doing? If there are people within the community facilitating terrorists - who's been prosecuted for it?
I can give you a list of lawyers, politicial workers, politicians and journalists who the intelligence agencies have "investigated" who are now all locked up or dead.
It's been over 20 years now, multiple governments and dictators have failed to address our most basic security needs.