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Its area is 74,521 kmē and its districts include Hazara, not to be confused with the Hazara people of Afghanistan. The capital and main city of the province is Peshawar. The major language spoken in the NWFP is Pashto, and most of its residents are Pashtuns, especially in the lowlands and the southern areas of NWFP. The mountainous northern regions of the province are mostly non-Pashtun, being home to diverse ethnic groups and languages, such as Khowar, Kohistani, Shina, Torwali, and Kalami. NWFP was traditionally a part of Afghanistan but was divided during British rule of India.
During the 1950s, Afghanistan supported a secessionist movement in the NWFP known as the Pakhtunistan movement. There are also numerous Afghan refugee camps in the NWFP owing to its proximity to Afghanistan. Likewise, it has a major base for supplying mujahideenMujahideen also transliterated as mujhidin mujahedeen mujahedin mujahidin mujaheddin etc. is a plural form of mujahid , which literally translates from Arabic as "struggler", someone who engages in jihad, or "struggle", but is often translated as "holy wa who fought the SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1s in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
Pashtuns within the NWFP have sought to rename the province to Pakhtunkhwa, which translates to Land of the Pakhtuns in Afghan. This has been opposed by the people of the mountainous northern regions of NWFP, who are mainly non-Pashtuns.
| Subdivisions of Pakistan | |
|---|---|
| Balochistan | North-West Frontier Province | Punjab | Sindh | |
| Islamabad Capital Territory | Federally Administered Tribal Areas | Azad Kashmir | Northern Areas | |
