The Land of N.W.F.P

Physically the features of N.W.F.P (North West Frontier Province) are presenting a very hard and complex picture. The province is geographically divided into 5 divisions. Peshawar, Kohat, Dera Ismail Khan, Malakand, and Hazara. The total area of the province is 39248 square miles. the greatest length of the province is 408 miles and greatest breadth 279 mils. To its north the mountains range of Hindu Kush to the south the province of Baluchistan and Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab, Kashmir and the province of Punjab lay to its east and Afghanistan to its west. except from Hazara Division, which is Cis-Indus the rest of the province is trans-Indus. The N.W.F.P is terrain rugged rocky and wild with lofty mountains and scanty to cultivation. However some fertile valleys also exist in this region. The south eastern part of the province is plain but had little mountains in Hazara and Kohat divisions with fertile plans for cultivation. The land or NWFP is witness of a lot of revolutionary changes and alteration and played an important role in history making. The North West hilly passes of the provinces are serving fro centuries as routes of foreign invasions and trade between Central Asia and Indo-Pakistan. NWFP is the home of Pathans (Pushtoons or Pukhtoons) Though its most of the areas are hilly and scanty to cultivation yet the North Western Mountains of this region are full of mineral resources and forests. The plains of the provinces are fertile and suitable for cultivation of all kinds of corps. The NWFP was given to this land by the British in 1901 due to its existences on the north western frontiers of Indo-Pakistan. This land has given birth to many civilizations and had never bee completely occupied by any invader.