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Economic and Political Weekly
February 23, 2018
In 1938, The Drum, a film set in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India, was released in the UK, the US and India, then part of the British Empire. ... A year later, in the NWFP's Bannu district, a case of a Hindu girl and a Pathan youth eloping caused an uproar in the entire region. When theÃâà...
League Of India
February 6, 2018
Britain had leased Gilgit from the Maharaja and built an all-weather airfield and roads between Gilgit Agency and the North West Frontier Province. Indeed, Gilgit was integrated with NWFP and run from Peshawar. When Gilgit was returned in August 1947, Rao Bahadur Brig. Gansara Singh, General Staff Officer of J&K StateÃâà...
The News International
November 21, 2017
Since 1988, both the PPP (1988, 1993) and the IJI/PML-N (1990, 1997) formed governments in former NWFP during their federal terms, a similar arrangement took place in the 2008 ANP-PPP government. It is likely that had Islamabad seen a PM return for a second consecutive term during this time,Ãâà...
DAWN.com
October 25, 2017
It is raining on March 8, 2017 at the Torkham border post on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Half a dozen women and some children are sitting in an office compound out in the open. A security official approaches them and orders them to vacate the place that houses the offices of the paramilitary FrontierÃâà...
The Indian Express
October 4, 2017
He was posted as commander of the Bannu Frontier Brigade in Waziristan. Having served in the NWFP as a young officer, Cariappa was conversant with the terrain as well as the habits of the Pathan tribesmen who lived in the area. He had seen that the British policy of trying to keep them under control byÃâà...
The Express Tribune
August 9, 2017
D I KHAN, K-P: At the time of Pakistan's creation on August 14th 1947, there existed only three colleges in NWFP, namely Islamia College Peshawar, ... Over time, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar (UET) campuses at Mardan, Abbottabad, Jalozai, Kohat and Bannu were established toÃâà...
Daily Times
February 23, 2017
Just 420 kilometers away from the cold, calm, and beautiful capital of Pakistan –Islamabad – lies one of the most dangerous terrains of the world – FATA (Federally Administrative Tribal Areas). Located on the north western region of Pakistan, FATA, constitute an area of 27,224 square kilometers, which isÃâà...
The News International
November 26, 2015
BANNU: Two persons were killed and three others sustained injuries in a bomb attack on Minister for Housing and Works Muhammad Akram Khan Durrani in ... Akram Durrani, who remained the chief minister of the erstwhile NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) for five years from 2002 to 2007, is a prominentÃâà...
World Press Review
September 26, 2007
In the small town of Bannu, some 190 kilometers south of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's rugged North-West Frontier Province, an unusual sound sometimes rents the air. "The whiz and hiss of a missile being set off is both thrilling and terrifying," Mobeen Khan, a 40-year-old bus driver who regularlyÃâà...
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