Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: Naeem Ashraf Durrani a nationalist leader of Hazara division in Karachi , speaking to Hazara conference at the Press Club said that the struggle for obtaining a separate Hazara province was the need of the hour and asked the people to stay united on their stance .
Simplified: Hazara is a valley and area of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan . Until the year 2000 it used to be known as Hazara Division - and its capital city was Abbottabad .