Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-16

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa


00:02:52 1 Etymology
00:04:17 2 History
00:04:25 2.1 Early history
00:05:28 2.2 Greek and Persian Invasions
00:07:03 2.3 Hindu and Buddhist Rule
00:08:39 2.4 Early Islamic Invasions
00:11:13 2.5 Mughal
00:13:08 2.6 Afsharid
00:13:29 2.7 Durrani Afghans
00:14:54 2.8 Sikh
00:16:51 2.9 British Raj
00:22:33 2.10 Bannu Resolution
00:25:50 2.11 After the creation of Pakistan
00:28:19 2.12 War and militancy
00:29:49 3 Geography
00:31:38 3.1 Climate
00:32:31 3.1.1 Chitral District
00:33:59 3.1.2 Central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
00:36:09 3.1.3 Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
00:37:15 3.2 National parks
00:37:31 4 Population
00:38:43 4.1 Languages
00:39:42 4.2 Religion
00:40:17 5 Government and politics
00:44:46 5.1 Administrative divisions and districts
00:45:47 6 Major cities
00:46:09 7 Economy
00:47:47 8 Infrastructure
00:48:15 9 Social issues
00:49:57 9.1 Non-government organisations
00:50:14 10 Folk music and culture
00:50:57 11 Education
00:51:14 11.1 Major educational establishments
00:52:33 12 Sports
00:53:04 13 See also



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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (abbreviated as KP or KPK; Urdu: خیبر پختونخوا‬‎; Pashto: خیبر پښتونخوا‎) is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the international border with Afghanistan. It was previously known as the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) until 2010 when the name was changed to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by the 18th Amendment to Pakistan's Constitution, and is known colloquially by various other names. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the third-largest province of Pakistan by the size of both population and economy, though it is geographically the smallest of five. Within Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa shares a border with Punjab, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Islamabad. It comprises 10.5% of Pakistan's economy, and is home to 11.9% of Pakistan's total population, with the majority of the province's inhabitants being Pashtuns. The province is the site of the ancient kingdom Gandhara, including the ruins of its capital Pushkalavati near modern-day Charsadda. Originally a stronghold of Buddhism, the history of the region was characterized by frequent invasions under various Empires due to its geographical proximity to the Khyber Pass.
Since the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been a major theatre of militancy and terrorism which intensified when the Taliban began an unsuccessful attempt to seize the control of the province in 2004. With the launch of Operation Zarb-e-Azb against the Taliban insurgency, the casualty and crime rates in the country as a whole dropped by 40.0% as compared to 2011–13, with even greater drops noted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. As of July 2014, about 929,859 people were reported to be internally displaced from North Waziristan to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a result of Operation Zarb-e-Azb.On March 2, 2017, the Government of Pakistan considered a proposal to merge the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and to repeal the Frontier Crimes Regulations, which are currently applicable to the tribal areas. However, some political parties have opposed the merger, and called for the tribal areas to instead become a separate province of Pakistan. On 24 May 2018, the National Assembly of Pakistan voted in favour of an amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan to merge the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.  The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly then approved the historic FATA-KP merger bill on 28 May 2018 making FATA officially part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was then signed by President Mamnoon Hussain, completing the process of this historic merger.