North-West Frontier Province
Americannoun
noun
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Chitral is a mountainous district of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, in the far end of the country, abutting an Afghan region called Wakhan, notable because it’s shaped like a panhandle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2010
The return of the people, many of them marooned in camps in the North-West Frontier Province, will probably prove the hardest part of the operation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2010
In an ill-timed visit to North-West Frontier Province, Nehru was met at Peshawar airdrome by 5,000 Moslem sympathizers, armed with spears and guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the North-West Frontier Province, where the Congress Party controls the Government but 93% of the population is Moslem, a popular referendum would be held.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Curzon wished to bring them more directly under his own control, so in 1901 a new province, composed of five frontier districts of the Panjab, was constituted, and called the North-West Frontier Province.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
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