Efforts To Change The Name
See also: History of Khyber PakhtunkhwaFor most of the history of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), there were efforts to change its name. As early as 1933, when "Afghania" was proposed, suggestions for new names came and went. Afghania suggests the historical ties of the region and the people to Afghanistan - as it was a land taken by the British colonial power from Afghanistan and is currently inhibited by ethnic Pashtuns, also known as Afghans. Although some of the names were ethnically neutral, most proposals emphazised the province's Pashtun ethnic identity. The renaming issue was an emotional one which often crossed party lines and not all supporters of a renaming agreed on the name Pakhtunkhwa (some preferred Pashtunistan/Pakhtunistan).
Read more about this topic: Names Of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Famous quotes containing the words efforts and/or change:
“What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
“I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.”
—Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Lucy (Irene Dunne)