Other Names
Other names used or proposed for the province include Pakhtunistan (also used for all lands inhabited by Pashtuns), Abasin (Pashto: اباسین, from the Pashto name for the Indus River), Khyber (from the Khyber Pass), Nuristan (Pashto: نورستان, which is also the name of a province of Afghanistan), Gandhara (Pashto: ګندارا Gandḥārā, from the historical kingdom of Gandhara in the region), or a combination of these names or others such as Pakhtoonkhwa-Hazara or Hazara-Pukhtun (in reference to the Hazara region where Hindko speakers are dominant as compared to the Pashto speakers elsewhere in the province).
Many of these alternatives were designed to avoid or balance the ethnic connotations of Pakhtunkhwa.
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