Northwest Frontier Province

In Pakistan, the Northwest Frontier Province is a semi-autonomous area which is bordered on to the north by Afghanistan and west by the also semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Area. Its capital is Peshawar.

The inhabitants are largely Pashtun, with ethnic ties across the border into Afghanistan, making the international border only a concept to tribes. Nevertheless, the area is not all Pashtun; when, in May 2008, the government renamed NWFP the Pukhtunkhwa (Land of the Pashtuns), other groups resented it.