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Before the Partition of India, the 1947 North-West Frontier Province referendum was held in July 1947 to decide the future of NWFP, in which the people of the province decided in favor of joining Pakistan.
The North-West Frontier (now a region of Pakistan) became part of British India in the aftermath of the Second Sikh War (1848-49). Following its victory in that conflict, the British East India Company annexed the Punjab. In doing so, it also became responsible for the frontier regions with Afghanistan, which had been part of the Sikh Empire ...
The North-West Frontier (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was a region of the British Indian Empire. It remains the western frontier of present-day Pakistan, extending from the Pamir Knot in the north to the Koh-i-Malik Siah in the west, [2] and separating the modern Pakistani frontier regions of North-West Frontier Province (renamed as Khyber ...
The North-West Frontier Province referendum (Pashto: د شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ایالت ټولپوښتنه) was held in July 1947 to decide whether the North-West Frontier Province of British India would join the Dominion of India or Pakistan upon the Partition of India. The polling began on 6 July and the results were made public ...
Sep 15, 2019 · Singh’s focal point is the executive decree of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, as Pakistan’s first Governor General immediately after Independence, dismissing the constitutionally-elected cabinet of NWFP under the Congress leader Dr Khan Saheb and installing a Muslim League ministry on August 23, 1947.
The North-West Frontier region (presently Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the Tribal Areas) owing to its strategic topography played an important role in the history of Indo-Pak sub-continent. In 1849 the British annexed Punjab and formally absorbed it into their own domain.
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Jan 16, 2002 · In October 1947, Pashtun tribesmen from Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province invaded Kashmir. There had been persistent reports of communal violence against Muslims in the state...
