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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.
Dialectical Map of Pashto: An edited map of the Pashtun tribes, from Olaf Caroe’s “The Pathans”. The North Eastern dialects have been highlighted in dark blue, the North Western dialects in light blue, the North-Central (North Karlāṇi) is pink, the South-Central (South Karlāṇi) in red, the South Eastern in orange and the South Western in yellow.
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 ...
^9 In informal texts, ی and ې are sometimes replaced by the letter ے, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ^10 ی represents /aj/ when it is following a consonant (e.g., لَرْګی larg ay ' wood ' ), and represents / j / when it is following a vowel (e.g., دُویْ du y ' they ' ).
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.
Hindko (ہندکو, romanized: Hindko, IPA: [ˈɦɪndkoː]) is a cover term for a diverse group of Lahnda dialects spoken by several million people of various ethnic backgrounds in several areas in northwestern Pakistan, primarily in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northwestern regions of Punjab.
Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, lit. 'land of the Pashtuns') [4] or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan [5] and northwestern Pakistan, [6] [7] wherein Pashtun culture, the Pashto language, and identity have been based.
The perahan/kameez worn in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa generally falls to the knees. [5] [6] [7] The traditional perahan buttons on either shoulder, is collarless [8] [9] and is meant to be loose. [10] Further, the traditional perahan/kameez is wide but fits closer to the body down to the waist and then is loose and full down to the knees [11] (thereby ...