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2 unusual facts about North West Frontier Province


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.

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.


5 April 2010 Peshawar bombings

Hours earlier 44 people died in a suicide attack at a rally in the north-western town of Timergara, Lower Dir District, during a meeting of the Awami National Party (ANP), the ruling coalition in North West Frontier Province.

Bombay Engineer Group

In the 19th century and prior to World War I, the Bombay Sappers served in Arabia, Persia, Abyssinia, China, Somaliland; in India fought in the Mysore, Maratha and Anglo-Sikh Wars; fought in the aftermath of the Mutiny in Mhow, Jhansi, Saugor and Kathiawar and many times over in the Punjab, North West Frontier Province and Afghanistan.

George Sinker

In 1924 he was ordained in Bannu, North West Frontier Province, India.

Qarie Marshall

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Marshall moved with his family to the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan where he was raised in the city of Peshawar until the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.


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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.

Bedadi

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

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.

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.

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.

John Donald

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

North-West Frontier Province

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

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.