So were other provinces of British-India. Did that stop them from making their "province-specific" demands? Heck no!.
Really which ones? there is virtually no comparison between what was going on in NWFP and the tribal areas and the other provinces in united India. The closest you will get is **national movements **like the Khilafat movement or quit India movements. Sind was the only province where you had a Hur rebellion but even that wasn't on for years on end..
FYI.There were major milestones (as listed above) in the short history of Sarhad and many top Pashtun leaders were like hand-in-glove with the Brits. There were all kinds of demands including the status of Sarhad even in 1931 round table conference.
Brits accepted such demands and implemented them "according the the wishes" of Sarhad politicians.
Obviously there were some Pashtun politicians who were hand in glove with politicians much the same way politicians and people are hand in glove with the establishment..some people are attracted to power. To say the British just bestowed the provincial status and provincial rights to the province out of the goodness of their hearts is totally out of touch with reality.it took huge efforts from everyone from Jinnah to Gandhi for the province to get even the most basic rights offered to the other provinces.
The name changers only got life AFTER Hindus and socialists lost the referendum. Thus the whole tamasha was started by anti-Pakistani Hindus, socialists and communists.
I refer you to pak-ones comments about the difference between Pakhtunkhwa and Pakhtunistan. I'd also like to correct you again that the pakhtunistan option was mentioned after the Indian National Congress had accepted partition and before the referendum.
If you two want to ignore the history, well do so at your own peril. Because just like Afghanistanis you two are bent upon following the mischievous tendencies of socialists, communists and now Islamists.
Make your case on solid footing and you will succeed. Rumor mongering and ignorance never helps.
If you wish genuianely to have a debate you can do better then making linkages where none exist and make assumptions from facts. Labelling people who disagree with you as Hindu/socialist/Islamists everytime does little to show you know what you are talking about either.