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The four components of the emblem are a crescent and star crest above an escutcheon, which is surrounded by a wreath, below which is a scroll. [2] The crest and the green colour of the emblem are considered traditional symbols of Islam.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa means the "Khyber side of the land of the Pashtuns, [13]" where the word Pakhtunkhwa means "Land of the Pashtuns", [14] while according to some scholars, it refers to "Pashtun culture and society". [15] The province has had various names throughout history.
Cedrus deodara is a species of cedar native to the western Himalayan and the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Pakistan (especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). It is considered to be the national tree of Pakistan. National fruit: Mango [31] Mango is highly cultivated in Pakistan (especially in the Punjab and Sindh provinces).
The word "Bahi" (بهی) or "Behhi" is neither Pashto nor Persian, and in one sense in Arabic, "Bahi" means beautiful and bright. In another sense, "Bahi" (بهی) means "بهی البیت بهیاً: the house which is empty and abandoned"; therefore, the "Takht-i-Bahi" (Takht = castle, palace) means a castle where in there no longer is ...
Upon the defeat of the Turk and Hindu Shahi dynasties which governed the Kabul Valley, Gandhara (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), and western Punjab in the 7th to 11th centuries CE, several successive Muslim empires ruled over the region, including the Ghaznavid Empire (975–1187 CE), the Ghorid Kingdom, and the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526 CE ...
In 2018, the National Assembly of Pakistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly passed the historic FATA Merger Bill with the Twenty-Fifth Constitutional Amendment. On 31 May 2018, the final step in the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was completed, as then-President Mamnoon Hussain signed the ...
Ethnic group Orakzai اورکزۍ Languages Pashto Religion Islam (Majority Sunni, Minority Shia) Related ethnic groups Afridi · Khattak · Mahsud · Wazir and other Karlani Pashtun tribes The Orakzai are a Pashtun tribe native to the Orakzai Agency and parts of Kurram and Khyber Agencies in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Additionally, a sub-tribe of the Orakzai resides in ...
Abbottabad (/ ˈ æ b ə t ə b ɑː d / AB-ə-tə-bahd; Urdu and Hindko: ایبٹ آباد, romanized: aibṭabād, pronounced [ɛːbʈəˈbaːd]) is a city in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.