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*Originally posted by queer: *
so what was the place called before it was named NWFP by the brits?
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It was called Pakhtunkhwa long before the Sikh or the British.
"I forget the throne of Delhi,
When I remember the peaks of Pakhtoonkhwa" a famous poem by Ahmed Shah Abdali father of Afghanistan
Pakhtun=Pakhtun Khwa=side/home
It has been called Roh (nation of light), it has been called Paktuku by Herodotus the Greek.