Oleander wrora:
Everyone knows that pakhtunkhwa, pakhtunistan or Afghania are more generalized names, whereas khyber is local name. In fact dara i khyber is the khyber valley, there are thousand other valleys in pakhtun khwa, dir valley, swat valley etc. By naming nwfp we might make the afridis happy but the other tribes certainly not. Why don’t we pick a name based on the comonnest factor that is pakhtun. So any name derived from pakhtun should be fine. For example my favorite pakhtunkhwa, or pakhtunistan, afghania, pakhtun watan etc.
Mon you the khyber zalmi… that is just a song man. There are many many other songs with other names in it. But we can’t just change the name of whole province because it is mentioned in one popular song!