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A unique 13-digit number is assigned at birth when the parents complete the child's birth registration form (Form RG-2, commonly known as B-Form or Child Registration Certificate (CRC)), and then a National Identity Card (NIC) with the same number is issued at the age of 18. Until 2001, NIC numbers were 11 digits long.
The first part, which comprises five digits i.e. '12101', has its first digit '1' identifying your province. People whose CNIC number starts with 1, are residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, similarly, 2 represents FATA, 3 for Punjab, 4 for Sindh, 5 represents Balochistan, 6 for Islamabad and 7 represents Gilgit-Baltistan province.
Mughal suzerainty over the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region was partially established after Babar, the founder of the Mughal Empire, invaded the region in 1505 CE via the Khyber Pass. The Mughal Empire noted the importance of the region as a weak point in their empire's defences, [ 82 ] and determined to hold Peshawar and Kabul at all cost against any ...
The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa functions under the provisions of the Constitution of Pakistan (1973). The Province has a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly with 145 elected members, constituent of 115 Regular seats, 26 seats reserved for women and 4 seats for non-Muslims.
The Directorate of Archives and Libraries, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is attached to the Department of Higher Education, Archives & Libraries Department, responsible for the collection and protection of official records and historical research; restoration of all the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa records; and the administration, development and maintenance of public libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Districts of present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Today, Kohistan refers to the narrow tract of land, divided among Swat, Dir and Indus Kohistan, where Kohistanis still form a majority. It is bounded by Chitral to the north, Afghanistan to the west, Gilgit Baltistan to the north and north-east and rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the south.
District councils and metropolitan corporations are respectively the highest rural and urban tiers of local government in the provinces. Both urban and rural local government have two or three tiers in all provinces except Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where councils are not identified as either urban or rural. There are 129 district councils across the ...
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...