updated Wed. April 10, 2024
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The Statesman
February 24, 2018
After reading the book, trustees of The Black Watch regiment, in which Wavell had served, asked Schofield to write the regiment's official history. ... Being posted to India, the soldiers had to learn Urdu, and then to take up a posting in the North-West Frontier (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), knowledge of Pashto wasÃâà...
Economic and Political Weekly
February 23, 2018
In 1938, The Drum, a film set in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India, was released in the UK, the US and India, then part of the British Empire. Even though that was ... British authorities and film-makers hoped this film would showcase the Empire's power and glory. In some ways, it wasÃâà...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
February 23, 2018
U.S. military officials in Afghanistan have often cited this as a vital, missing component of their advising efforts. ... the British experience of policing the other side of the lawless “North-West Frontier” between what is today Pakistan and Afghanistan against rebellious Pashtun (then called Pathan) tribes.
The Telegraph
February 17, 2018
She would also the first woman to head an MNC in Pakistan and the architect of OUP as it stands now in Pakistan, also literally. ... She had an unusual job for a woman: she had been given the responsibility of the former West Punjab province and the North West Frontier Province areas; that's almost 70 perÃâà...
UrduPoint News
February 16, 2018
The Indian pangolin (Manis crassudata), which is distributed across Pakistan, has been declared endangered in 2009 by the IUCN. Despite being protected under the Islamabad Wildlife Ordinance, 1975 and the North-West Frontier Province Wildlife Act, 1975 this species is rapidly declining as a result ofÃâà...
Firstpost
February 14, 2018
Pashtuns stage anti-Pakistan protests: India must abandon 'soft-power' approach to Afghanistan, capitalise on 'historic' opportunity ... Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, widely known in India as 'Frontier Gandhi' and Badshah Khan or as 'Bacha Khan' in his native place, the North West Frontier Province, nowÃâà...
News18
February 12, 2018
All the three big terror groups in Kashmir have received a shot in the arm after the escape of Naveed Jutt, the Pakistani LeT commander, who broke out from ... Very specific inputs indicate that fidayeens have come to Kashmir all the way from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan's North-West FrontierÃâà...
League Of India
February 6, 2018
He hastily called Brig Murray, who told him not to breathe a word to anyone or he (Kalkat) would not be allowed to leave Pakistan alive. Perhaps the Brigadier alerted the Pakistani authorities anyway, for Kalkat was placed under house arrest. He made a daring escape and reached Ambala on 18 October 1947 and took aÃâà...
Financial Express
December 19, 2017
The Sikh community in Pakistan's Hangu district in northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have alleged that they were being forced to convert to ... Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today urged External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to take up with Pakistani authorities the issue of allegedÃâà...
Long War Journal
October 13, 2017
2016 and an operation against a military camp in the town of Uri, near the Line of Control that divides the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Khalid was not linked to these two operations. According to Indian security officials, Khalid was particularly effective at orchestratingÃâà...
AOL
October 13, 2017
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Pakistani troops shot out the tires of a vehicle carrying a kidnapped U.S.-Canadian couple and their children in a raid that led to the family's release, a Pakistani security official said on Friday. The operation late on Wednesday freed American Caitlan Campbell, her CanadianÃâà...
RUSI Analysis
September 4, 2017
Trump is not unique in his criticism of Pakistan; he follows a long line of American officials who have singled out Pakistani support for the Taliban in Afghanistan. Since the speech, Trump also appears to have threatened Pakistan, saying it will get financial aid only after it has fulfilled US demands regardingÃâà...
Daily Times
December 31, 1999
Given this understanding, the screening of the film 'Inshallah Democracy' on the life of a voter in Pakistan but that documented the life of Pervez Musharraf came ... Interestingly, similar was the message which was sent to the West during Musharraf era i.e. North-West-Frontier Province is being ruled by theÃâà...
The Wire
December 31, 1999
Additionally, the latter-day ANP and PMAP have focused on parliamentary politics with attention on Islamabad and have tried to avoid overt and official condemnation of the Pakistani army's excesses lest they are labeled again as seditionists as they were for a good 40 years of Pakistan's existence. WithoutÃâà...
DAWN.com
December 31, 1999
The social and economic conditions of religious minorities are hardly different in any part of Pakistan, even in constituencies where non-Muslim votes can ..... Christians, Hindus and other minorities; the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhawa) was also to have one seat each for Christians,Ãâà...
