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).
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