Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa خیبر پختونخوا
Province
Counter-clockwise from top left: Peshawar Museum, Malam Jabba Ski Resort, Khyber Pass, Swat Valley, Islamia College, Peshawar, Lake Saiful Muluk, Naran
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Coordinates: 34°00′N 71°19′E / 34.00°N 71.32°E / 34.00; 71.32Coordinates: 34°00′N 71°19′E / 34.00°N 71.32°E / 34.00; 71.32
Country	Pakistan
Established	July 1, 1970
Capital	Peshawar
Largest city	Peshawar
Government
• Type	Province
• Body	Provincial Assembly
• Governor	Shaukatullah Khan
• Chief Minister	Pervez Khattak
• High Court	Peshawar High Court
Area
• Total	74,521 km2 (28,773 sq mi)
Population (2012)
• Total	22,000,000
• Density	300/km2 (760/sq mi)
	http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
Languages	Urdu (national) Pashto (provincial) English (official) Regional languages: Pashto, Hindko, Khowar, Kalami, Torwali, Shina, Saraiki, Gujari, Maiya, Bateri, Kalkoti, Chilisso, Gowro, Kalasha-mondr, Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Yidgha, Burushaski, Kyrgyz, Wakhi
Assembly seats	124
Districts	25
Union Councils	986
Website	khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pashto: خیبر پښتونخوا‎ [pəxtunˈxwɑ]; Urdu: خیبر پختونخوا ‎ [ˈpəxˈtuːnxwaː]), (KPK) formerly called North-West Frontier Province and several other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the north-west of the country. It borders the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to the west and south, Gilgit–Baltistan to the north-east, Azad Kashmir to the east, Punjab and the Islamabad Capital Territory to the south-east, and Afghanistan to the north-west. The province of Balochistan is located southwards.The provincial capital and largest city is Peshawar.

History

Prior to independence, the North-West Frontier Province voted to join Pakistan in a referendum on July 2, 1947 where 50.1% of the registered voters exercised their vote and majority(99.02%) of them voted for Pakistan.^[1] There was no option in the polls to vote to become a sovereign state independent of both India and Pakistan.^[2][3] Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his Khudai Khidmatgars chose to boycott the polls along with other nationalistic or pro-India Pashtuns. Some have argued that a segment of the population was barred from voting.^[4]

Afghanistan claims Pashtun-dominated western areas of the territory as its own. After Pakistan's independence, Afghanistan was the only country to vote against Pakistan’s accession to the United Nations because of Kabul’s claim on the Pashtun territories located on the Pakistani side of the Durand Line.^[5] The population of this region as per 1901 Census of the North West Frontier Province was 2,125,480, out of which Muslims were 1,957,777, Hindus were 134,252 and Sikhs were 28,091.^[6]

Partition and Afghan War

Afghanistan's loya jirga of 1949 declared the Durand Line invalid, which led to border tensions with Pakistan. Afghanistan's governments have periodically refused to recognize Pakistan's inheritance of British treaties regarding the region.^[7] During the 1950s, Afghanistan supported the Pushtunistan Movement, a secessionist movement that failed to gain substantial support amongst the tribes of the North-West Frontier Province. Afghanistan's refusal to recognize the Durrand Line, and its subsequent support for the Pashtunistan Movement has been cited as the main cause of tensions between the two countries that have existed since Pakistan's independence.^{[citation needed]} After Ayub Khan eliminated Pakistan's provinces, Yahya Khan, in 1969, abolished this "one unit" scheme and added Amb, Swat, Dir, Chitral and Kohistan to the new North-West Frontier Province as the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas.

During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979–1989) the North-West Frontier Province served as a major base for supplying the Mujahideen who fought the Soviets during the 1980s. Following the arrival of Soviet forces, over five million Afghan refugees poured into Pakistan, most residing in the North-West Frontier Province (as of 2007, nearly 3 million remained). The North-West Frontier Province remained heavily influenced by events in Afghanistan. Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992) led to the rise of the Taliban, which had emerged in the border region between Afghanistan, Baluchistan, PATA and FATA as a formidable political force. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the FATA and bordering North-West Frontier Province became a front-line region again, as part of the global "War on Terror". In 2010 the name of the province changed to "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". Protests arose among the local ethnic Hazara population due to this name change, as they began to demand their own province. Seven people were killed and 100 injured in protests on 11 April 2011.^[8]

Geography

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sits primarily on the Iranian plateau and comprises the junction where the slopes of the Hindu Kush mountains on the Eurasian plate give way to the Indus-watered hills approaching South Asia. This situation has led to seismic activity in the past.^[9] The famous Khyber Pass links the province to Afghanistan, while the Kohalla Bridge in Circle Bakote Abbottabad is a major crossing point over the Jhelum River in the east.

The province has an area of 28,773 mi² or (74,521 km²).^[10] The province's main districts are Peshawar, Mardan,SWABI Charsadda Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat, Kohistan, Kohat, Abbottabad, Haripur and Mansehra, Swat, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Chitral, Buner D, Bannu and Karak. Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat, Abbottabad, Dera Ismail Khan and Hangu are the main cities.

According to the 1998 census, the population of the province was approximately 17 million,^[11] of whom 52% are males and 48% are females. The density of population is 187 per km² and the intercensal change of population is of about 30%.

Geographically the province could be divided into two zones: the northern one extending from the ranges of the Hindu Kush to the borders of Peshawar basin and the southern one extending from Peshawar to the Derajat basin.

The northern zone is cold and snowy in winters with heavy rainfall and pleasant summers with the exception of Peshawar basin, which is hot in summer and cold in winter. It has moderate rainfall. The southern zone is arid with hot summers and relatively cold winters and scanty rainfall.^[12]

The major rivers that criss-cross the province are the Kabul, Swat, Chitral, Kunar, Siran, Panjkora, Bara, Kurram, Dor, Haroo, Gomal and Zhob.

Its snow-capped peaks and lush green valleys of unusual beauty have enormous potential for tourism.^[13]

Climate

The climate of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa varies immensely for a region of its size, encompassing most of the many climate types found in Pakistan. The province stretching southwards from the Baroghil Pass in the Hindu Kush covers almost six degrees of latitude; it is mainly a mountainous region. Dera Ismail Khan is one of the hottest places in South Asia while in the mountains to the north the weather is temperate in the summer and intensely cold in the winter. The air is generally very dry; consequently, the daily and annual range of temperature is quite large.^[14]

Rainfall also varies widely. Although large parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are typically dry, the province also contains the wettest parts of Pakistan in its eastern fringe.

Chitral District

Chitral District lies completely sheltered from the monsoon that controls the weather in eastern Pakistan, owing to its relatively westerly location and the shielding effect of the Nanga Parbat massif. In many ways Chitral District has more in common regarding climate with Central Asia than South Asia.^[15] The winters are generally cold even in the valleys, and heavy snow during the winter blocks passes and isolates the region. In the valleys, however, summers can be hotter than on the windward side of the mountains due to lower cloud cover: Chitral can reach 40 °C (104 °F) frequently during this period.^[16] However, the humidity is extremely low during these hot spells and, as a result the summer climate is less torrid than in the rest of the Indian subcontinent.

Most precipitation falls as thunderstorms or snow during winter and spring, so that the climate at the lowest elevations is classed as Mediterranean (Csa), continental Mediterranean (Dsa) or semi-arid (BSk). Summers are extremely dry in the north of Chitral district and receive only a little rain in the south around Drosh.

At elevations above 5,000 metres (16,400 ft), as much as a third of the snow which feeds the large Karakoram and Hindukush glaciers comes from the monsoon since these elevations are too high to be shielded from its moisture.^[15]

Central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Dir
Climate chart (explanation)
J F M A M J J A S O N D     121   11 −3     177   12 −2     254   16 3     166   23 8     86   28 12     54   32 16     160   31 19     169   30 18     84   29 14     50   25 7     58   20 2     83   14 −1 Average max. and min. temperatures in °C Precipitation totals in mm Source: World Climate Data[17]
Imperial conversion J F M A M J J A S O N D     4.8   52 27     7   54 28     10   61 37     6.5   73 46     3.4   82 54     2.1   90 61     6.3   88 66     6.7   86 64     3.3   84 57     2   77 45     2.3   68 36     3.3   57 30 Average max. and min. temperatures in °F Precipitation totals in inches

On the southern flanks of Nanga Parbat and in Upper and Lower Dir Districts, rainfall is much heavier than further north because moist winds from the Arabian Sea are able to penetrate the region. When they collide with the mountain slopes, winter depressions provide heavy precipitation. The monsoon, although short, is generally powerful. As a result, the southern slopes of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are the wettest part of Pakistan. Annual rainfall ranges from around 500 millimetres (20 in) in the most sheltered areas to as much as 1,750 millimetres (69 in) in parts of Abbottabad and Mansehra Districts.

This region’s climate is classed at lower elevations as humid subtropical (Cfa in the west; Cwa in the east); whilst at higher elevations with a southerly aspect it becomes classed as humid continental (Dfb). However, accurate data for altitudes above 2,000 metres (6,560 ft) are practically nonexistent here, in Chitral, or in the south of the province.

The seasonality of rainfall in central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa shows very marked gradients from east to west. At Dir, March remains the wettest month due to frequent frontal cloud-bands, whereas in Hazara more than half the rainfall comes from the monsoon.^[18] This creates a unique situation characterized by a bimodal rainfall regime, which extends into the southern part of the province described below.^[18]

Since cold air from the Siberian High loses its chilling capacity upon crossing the vast Karakoram and Himalaya ranges, winters in central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are somewhat milder than in Chitral. Snow remains very frequent at high altitudes but rarely lasts long on the ground in the major towns and agricultural valleys. Outside of winter, temperatures in central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are not so hot as in Chitral. Significantly higher humidity when the monsoon is active means that heat discomfort can be greater. However, even during the most humid periods the high altitudes typically allow for some relief from the heat overnight.

Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Dera Ismail Khan
Climate chart (explanation)
J F M A M J J A S O N D     10   20 4     18   22 7     35   27 13     22   34 19     17   39 23     14   42 27     61   39 27     58   37 26     18   37 24     5   33 17     2   28 11     10   22 5 Average max. and min. temperatures in °C Precipitation totals in mm Source: World Climate Data[19]
Imperial conversion J F M A M J J A S O N D     0.4   68 39     0.7   72 45     1.4   81 55     0.9   93 66     0.7   102 73     0.6   108 81     2.4   102 81     2.3   99 79     0.7   99 75     0.2   91 63     0.1   82 52     0.4   72 41 Average max. and min. temperatures in °F Precipitation totals in inches

As one moves further away from the foothills of the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges, the climate changes from the humid subtropical climate of the foothills to the typically arid climate of Sindh, Balochistan and southern Punjab. As in central Pakhtunkhwa, the seasonality of precipitation shows a very sharp gradient from west to east, but the whole region very rarely receives significant monsoon rainfall. Even at high elevations annual rainfall is less than 400 millimetres (16 in) and in some places as little as 200 millimetres (8 in).

Temperatures in southern Pakhtunkhwa are extremely hot: Dera Ismail Khan in the southernmost district of the province is known as one of the hottest places in the world with temperatures known to have reached 50 °C (122 °F). In the cooler months, nights can be cold and frosts remain frequent; snow is very rare, and daytime temperatures remain comfortably warm with abundant sunshine.

Language

• Urdu, the lingua franca being National language is also spoken and understood.
• Pakhto, is the major language, mainly spoken in central districts.
• Hindko, (a Punjabi dialect) is Second Major Language. It is in Majority in Hazara Division but also in Peshawer, Kohat and Noshera City centrals
• Saraiki, (a Punjabi dialect) spoken by people in the south specially by people of Districts of DI Khan and Tonk
• Khowar, by people in the north specially in district Chitral
• Standard Punjabi, minority living in the major cities and cantonment areas
• Kohistani, by people from North Malakand and Hazara Divisions
• Gojri minority throughout Northern half of the province.
• Dari/Hazaragi/Farsi/Tajik, varieties of Persian by Afghan refugees

Other languages include, Kashmiri, Shina, Romani, Burushaski, Wakhi, Balti, Balochi, Brahui, Sindhi and English (official and used in tourism).

Only Urdu and English are found as written languages in the city, with Pashto and Persian to a much smaller extent.The provincial language is Pashto, spoken by the majority as first language; Urdu, the national language, is widely spoken as a second language. English, the official language of Pakistan, is mainly used for official and literary purposes. The provincial capital and largest city is Peshawar.

The main ethnic group in the province are the Pashtun people; other major ethnic groups include most notably the Hindkowans, Dards, Chitralis (who include the Kalasha) and Gujjars.

Demographics

Historical populations
Census	Population	Urban
1951	4,556,545	11.07%
1961	5,730,991	13.23%
1972	8,388,551	14.25%
1981	11,061,328	15.05%
1998	17,743,645	16.87%

The province has an estimated population of about 21 million. The largest ethnic group is the Pashtun, who historically have been living in the areas for centuries.^[20] Around 1.5 million Afghan refugees also remain in the province,^[21] the majority of whom are Pashtuns followed by Tajiks, Hazaras, and other smaller groups. Despite having lived in the province for over two decades, they are registered as citizens of Afghanistan.^[22]

In most rural areas of the centre and south, Pashtun tribes can be found including the Yusufzai, Bangash, Bhittani, Daavi, Khattak, Qazi khail also known as Qaziye Babar, Gandapur, Gharghasht, Marwat, Afridi, Shinwari, Orakzai, Mahsud, Mohmand, Wazir and Bannuchi as well as other tribes of Hazara division•, Swati, Kakar, Tareen, Jadoon, Tanoli, Gujar, and Mashwani.

There are non-Pashtun tribes including Jat, Mughal, Turks, Karlal, Rajpoot, Dhund Abbasi, Syed, Awan, Kashmiri, Qureshi and Sarrara. The mountainous extreme north includes the Chitral and Kohistan districts that are home to diverse Dardic ethnic groups such as the Khowar, Kohistani, Shina, Torwali, Kalasha and Kalami.

However in the southernmost district such as Dera Ismail Khan live some of the Baloch tribe: Kori, Buzdar, Kanera, Leghari, Rind and some other sub tribes of Lashari tribe. These Baloch tribes speak Saraiki as their first language. In this southern district, most of its population speaks Saraiki.

Religion

Most of the inhabitants of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa profess Islam, with a Sunni majority and significant minorities of Shias, Ismailis, and Ahmadis.^[23][24] Many of the Kalasha of Southern Chitral still retain their ancient Animist/Shamanist religion.

There are very small communities of Hindus and Sikhs.^[25][26]

Provincial Government

Provincial symbols of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (unofficial)

Provincial animal	Kabul Markhor
Provincial bird	White-crested Kalij Pheasant
Provincial tree	Juniperus squamata
Provincial flower	Morina

The unicameral Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly consists of 124 seats: 3 (2%) of them reserved for non-Muslims and 22 (17%) for women.

The President of Pakistan appoints a Governor as head of the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There is a directly elected Provincial Assembly, which has 124 elected members (including 22 seats reserved for women and 3 seats for non-Muslims). The Provincial Assembly elects a Chief Minister to act as the chief executive of the province, assisted by a cabinet of ministers.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa consists of 25 districts, comprising 20 Settled Area Districts and 5 Provincially Administered Tribal Area (PATA) Districts. The administration of the PATA districts is vested in the President of Pakistan and the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, by Articles 246 and 247 of the Constitution of Pakistan. Peshawar is the most populated and Abbottabad is second-most populated city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[27]

The 25 districts are:

Important cities

where Peshawar and Abbottabad are class A city.

Economy

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has the third largest provincial economy in Pakistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's share of Pakistan's GDP has historically comprised 10.5%, although the province accounts for 11.9% of Pakistan's total population. The part of the economy that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa dominates is forestry, where its share has historically ranged from a low of 34.9% to a high of 81%, giving an average of 61.56%.^[28] Currently, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accounts for 10% of Pakistan's GDP,^[29] 20% of Pakistan's mining output^[30] and, since 1972, it has seen its economy grow in size by 3.6 times.^[31] It has the second poorest economy after Balochistan.

After suffering for decades due to the fallout of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, today they are again being targeted for a different situation of terrorism.^{[citation needed]}

Agriculture remains important and the main cash crops include wheat, maize, tobacco (in Swabi), rice, sugar beets, as well as fruits are grown in the province.

Some manufacturing and high tech investments in Peshawar has helped improve job prospects for many locals, while trade in the province involves nearly every product. The bazaars in the province are renowned throughout Pakistan. Unemployment has been reduced due to establishment of industrial zones.

Workshops throughout the province support the manufacture of small arms and weapons. The province accounts for at least 78% of the marble production in Pakistan.^[32]

Social issues

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has the second-lowest Human Development Index out of all of Pakistan's provinces, at 0.607.^[33] Furthermore, it also continues to have an image problem.

The Awami National Party sought to rename the province "Pakhtunkhwa", which translates to "Land of Pakhtuns" in the Pashto language. This was opposed by some of the non-Pashtuns, and especially by parties such as the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). The PML-N derives its support in the province from primarily non-Pashtun Hazara regions.

In 2010 the announcement that the province would have a new name led to a wave of protests in the Hazara region.^[34] On April 15, 2010 Pakistan's senate officially named the province "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" with 80 senators in favor and 12 opposed.^[35] The MMA, who until the elections of 2008 had a majority in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, had proposed "Afghania" as a compromise name.^[36]

After the 2008 general election, the Awami National Party formed a coalition provincial government with the Pakistan Peoples Party.^[37] The Awami National Party has its strongholds in the Pashtun areas of Pakistan, particularly in the Peshawar valley, while Karachi in Sindh has one of the largest Pashtun populations in the world — around 7 million by some estimates.^[38] In the 2008 election the ANP won two Sindh assembly seats in Karachi. The Awami National Party has been instrumental in fighting the Taliban. In 2013 General Elections Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won a majority in the provincial assembly and has now formed their government with alliance of two more parties.^[39]

Folk music

Hindko and Pashto folk music are popular in Pakhtunkhwa and has a rich tradition going back hundreds of years. The main instruments are the rubab, mangey and harmonium. Khowar folk music is popular in Chitral and northern Swat. The tunes of Khowar music are very different from those of Pashto and the main instrument is the Chitrali sitar. A form of band music composed of clarinets (surnai) and drums is popular in Chitral. It is played at polo matches and dances. The same form of band music is played in the neighbouring Northern Areas.^[40]

Education

Abbottabad is the only city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with higher literacy rate in province and also in Pakistan, The trend towards higher education is rapidly increasing in the province and the Pakhtunkhwa is home to Pakistan's foremost engineering university (Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology), which is in Topi, a town in Swabi district. The University of Peshawar is also a notable institution of higher learning.

The Frontier Post is perhaps the province's best-known newspaper and addresses many of the issues facing the population.

Year	Literacy Rate
1972	15.5%
1981	16.7%
1998	35.41%
2008	49.9%

Sources:^[41][42]

This is a chart of the education market of Pakhtunkhwa estimated by the government in 1998. Also see^[43]

Qualification	Urban	Rural	Total	Enrolment Ratio(%)
—	2,994,084	14,749,561	17,743,645	—
Below Primary	413,782	3,252,278	3,666,060	100.00
Primary	741,035	4,646,111	5,387,146	79.33
Middle	613,188	2,911,563	3,524,751	48.97
Matriculation	647,919	2,573,798	3,221,717	29.11
Intermediate	272,761	728,628	1,001,389	10.95
BA, BSc... degrees	20,359	42,773	63,132	5.31
MA, MSc... degrees	18,237	35,989	53,226	4.95
Diploma, Certificate...	82,037	165,195	247,232	1.92
Other qualifications	19,766	75,226	94,992	0.53

Major educational establishments

• City University of Science & Information Technology, (CUSIT) Peshawar^[44]
• Army Burn Hall College, Abbottabad
• Army Public College PMA Kakul, Abbottabad
• Hazara University, Mansehra

• Karnal Sher Khan Cadet College Swabi Ismaila, Shewa Adda, Swabi.
• Abbottabad Public School, Abbottabad
• University of Swat, Saidu Sharif Swat^[45]
• Abdul Wali Khan University,^{[citation needed]} Mardan
• Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad
• Ayub Dental College, Abbottabad
• Bacha Khan Medical College,^{[citation needed]} Mardan
• Pakistan International Public School and College, Abbottabad^[46]
• Women Medical College,^{[citation needed]} Abbottabad
• Bannu Medical College,^{[citation needed]} Bannu
• Cadet College Razmak, Bannu
• Cadet College Kohat, Kohat
• Cadet College Batrasi, Mansehra
• COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad Campus
• Edwardes College, Peshawar
• Gandhara University, Peshawar
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Swabi
• Gomal Medical College, D. I. Khan
• Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
• Islamia College, Peshawar
• Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar
• Khyber Medical College, Peshawar
• Khyber Medical University, Peshawar
• Khyber Girls Medical College, Peshawar
• Kabir Medical College, Peshawar
• Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat
• KMU Institute Of Medical Sciences,Kohat (KIMS), Kohat
• Military College of Engineering, Risalpur
• National Institute of Transportation, Risalpur
• National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar Campus
• Pakhtunkhwa University of Agriculture, Peshawar
• Pakistan Air Force Academy, Risalpur
• Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar.
• Pakistan Military Academy, Abbottabad
• Saidu Medical College, Swat
• Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal
• University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar
• University of Malakand, Chakdara
• University of Peshawar, Peshawar
• University of Science & Technology Bannu, Bannu
• Pakistan Scouts Cadet College Batrasi, Mansehra
• Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak^[47]
• University Of Haripur (UOH) Haripur,

Sports

Cricket is the main sport played in Pakhtunkhwa. It has created world-class sportsmen like Shahid Khan Afridi,Younus Khan. Besides producing cricket players, Pakhtunkhwa has the honour of being the birthplace of many world-class squash players, including greats like Jansher Khan and Jahangir Khan.

See also

• 2010 Pakistan floods
• Durand line
• Frontier Regions
• Kakazai
• North-West Frontier (military history)
• Pashtunistan

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