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North West Frontier

North-West Frontier States Agency, an agency overseeing some of the Princely States


Charles Henry Brownlow

He served on the North West Frontier in the Hazara Campaign of 1853 and the campaign against the Mohmands in 1854.

Frank Nugent

His screenplays in other genres include The Red Beret, North West Frontier, Trouble in the Glen, The Quiet Man, The Rising of the Moon), and Donovan's Reef.

Victorian Military Society

Other notable members of the Society have included the military historians Ian Knight (one of the Society’s founder members) a noted expert on the Zulu War and Rorke’s Drift, Michael Barthorp author of books on the North West Frontier, the Boer War and the Sudan campaigns, and the late Kenneth Griffith, actor, documentary film maker, Boer war historian and author of a book on the siege and relief of Ladysmith.


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3rd Marine Logistics Group

This was followed up with a deployment to Pakistan to aid in the relief efforts after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that shook the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on 8 October 2005, leaving almost 100,000 dead and nearly 3 million Pakistanis homeless.

Achhar Singh Chhina

In June 1940 Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina and Comrade Ram Kishan came to meet Bhagat Ram Talwar in his village in North West Frontier.

Bedadi

Bedadi, Pakistan, village in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan

Bengal Engineer Group

World War I: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914–15, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Aden, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915–18, Persia 1918, North West Frontier India 1915 '16–17, Baluchistan 1918;

Blanche d'Alpuget

For fifteen years d'Alpuget abandoned her career as a writer and travelled the world with her new husband, visiting not only capital cities but remote areas of China, Inner Mongolia, Moldova, Easter Island, Palau, Kazakhstan, the North West Frontier of Pakistan and the Antarctic peninsula.

Bostan Khan

Bostan Khan (died 1825),was a warrior of the Tareen (or Tarin) tribe settled in the Haripur, Hazara region of what was to later become the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), who was executed for 'rebellion' by the Sikh administrators of the region at that time.

Edward Douglas MacLagan

With Horace Arthur Rose, Superintendent of Ethnography in the Punjab in the early twentieth century, he compiled a large work, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier, including material from Denzil Ibbetson's 1881 census.

Godfrey Meynell

His body is laid to rest at the Guides Chapel in Mardan, near Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province, where he and his wife were married.

Herbert James Walton

Choosing to serve in Bengal, Walton served on the North West Frontier in 1897-98, and in China in 1900 during the Relief of Peking.

Hinduism in Punjab

Peshawar(Purushapur), North West Frontier Province: Capital of Kanishka, the Kushan ruler and the site of the tallest stupa in Jambudvipa.

Hoti

Hoti, Pakistan, a region in the Mardan District of the North-West Frontier Province.

Jeffery armored car

Forty were added to the "Field Force" that was operating to contain the Mohmand rising of Haji Mullah on the North West Frontier.

John Donald

John Stuart Donald, former Chief Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province of British India

Mosley Mayne

He saw action against the Mohmands and the Swatis on the North West Frontier between August and October 1915, was promoted temporary Captain on 1 September 1915 and having his first taste of staff work being appointed temporary Staff Captain in India from 23 to 30 September 1915.

North West Frontier Province

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four present-day provinces of Pakistan, known as "North-West Frontier Province" until 2010, with an area of 74,521 km².

North-West Frontier Province

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, known as the North-West Frontier Province from 1955 to 2010

Omer Tarin

Tarin was born in 1966 to the Tarin (or Tareen) family, or clan, of the Hazara region of the North-West Frontier (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), while his father was posted as a senior civil servant and administrator in Peshawar.

Punjab Mail

Then known as The Punjab Limited, the train initially ran from Ballard Pier to Peshawar, taking British officers, civil servants, and their families directly from their ships to Delhi and the North-West frontier of British India.

Rahatullah Mohmand

Before playing for Afghanistan, he played cricket for various first-class teams like Habib Bank Limited, North West Frontier Province cricket team, North West Frontier Province Panthers, Peshawar, Peshawar Panthers, Redco Pakistan Ltd and Water and Power Development Authority.

The Fazlehaq College Mardan

The Fazlehaq College Mardan was brought into existence by the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) General (r) Fazle Haq and the educationist Abdul Ali Khan (son of the politician Bacha Khan) and brother of the pukhthoon poet, thinker and philosopher Abdul Ghani Khan in the 1980s.