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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.
In 2010 the name of the province changed to "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". Protests arose among the locals of the Hazara division due to this name change, as they began to demand their own province. [67] Seven people were killed and 100 injured in protests on 11 April 2011. [67]
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.
^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 ' ).
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.
The northwestern frontier areas were annexed by the East India Company after the Second Sikh War (1848–49). The territories thenceforth formed a part of Punjab until the province, then known as North West Frontier Province, was created in 1901 from the north-western districts of the Punjab Province. [4]
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.
Chārsadda (Pashto: چارسده; pronounce ⓘ; Urdu: چارسدہ; pronounce ⓘ) is a town and headquarters of Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. [4] It is the eighty fifth-largest city of Pakistan, according to 2017 census.