Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Prominent 20th century proponents of the Pashtunistan cause have included Khan Abdul Wali Khan and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Ghaffar Khan stated in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly in 1948 that he simply wanted "the renaming of his province as Pashtunistan same like Punjab, Sindh and Baluchishtan are the names of provinces of Pakistan as ethno-linguistic names,

On 31 March 2010, Pakistan's Constitutional Reform Committee agreed that the province be named and recognized as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This is now the official name for the former NWFP.

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File:US soldiers patrolling the streets of Asadabad-6.jpg|Asadabad, capital of Kunar Province in Afghanistan

File:Fields in Pech River Valley-2011.jpg|Pech River Valley

File:A group of Banuchi Elders discussing in Jirga.jpg|A Group of Banuchi and Wazir Elders sitting in a Jirga, Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

File:Watapur district-2012.jpg|Watapur District of Kunar Province

File:Branches of the Kunar River meet in Kunar Province.jpg|Branches of the Kunar River meet in Nangarhar Province

File:Kabulriverinjaa1.jpg|Kabul River in Jalalabad, Afghanistan

File:2007 08 27 Pakistan Khyber Pass Torkham IMG 9729.jpg|Khyber Pass in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

File:US Navy 071121-O-0000X-001 Khost University professors and students pose for a group picture after one of many seminars held by Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost during the course of their deployment in Afghanistan.jpg|People attending Khost University in Khost, Afghanistan

File:Ghazni province in April 2010.jpg|Ghazni Province, Afghanistan

File:Defense.gov photo essay 110907-A-ZU930-022.jpg|Afghan Border Police (ABP) in Paktika Province

File:US specialist helping Afghan nomads.jpg|Kuchi people in Paktia Province of Afghanistan

File:Kayaking in front of Hanna Lake Bridge Wall.jpg|Hanna Lake in Quetta, Pakistan

File:Dahla Dam-2012.jpg|Dahla Dam in Kandahar Province

File:Arghandab River Valley between Kandahar and Lashkar Gah.jpg|Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

File:Aerial photograph of Kandahar Province in 2011.jpg|Helmand River in Helmand Province, Afghanistan

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Notes

See also

  • Afghan Millat Party
  • Khalq
  • Awami National Party
  • Bacha Khan
  • Bannu Resolution
  • Durand Line
  • Greater Iran
  • Hazarastan
  • Hazara nationalism
  • Manzoor Pashteen
  • Pashtun nationalism
  • Pashtunization
  • Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
  • Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
  • Sidhanoti tribal area

References

Further reading

  • Ahmed, Feroz (1998) Ethnicity and politics in Pakistan. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
  • Ahmad, M.(1989) Pukhtunkhwa Kiyun Nahin by Mubarak Chagharzai. pp.&nbsp;138–139.
  • Amin, Tahir (1988) -National Language Movements of Pakistan. Islamabad Institute of Policy Studies.
  • Buzan, Barry and Rizvi, Gowher (1986), South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers, London: Macmillan. p.&nbsp;73.
  • Fürstenberg, Kai (2012) Waziristan: Solutions for a Troubled Region in Spotlight South Asia, No. 1, ISSN 2195-2787 (https://web.archive.org/web/20150907205431/http://www.apsa.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/SSA-1.pdf)
  • Caroe, Olaf (1983) The Pathans, with an Epilogue on Russia. Oxford University Press. pp.&nbsp;464–465.