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	North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Even within Pakistan it is regarded as a "radical state" and a "backwater" due to the rise of Islamist parties in the province and purported support for the remnants of the Taliban who are believed by some to be hiding in the province.
		Geographically the province could be divided into two zones: the northern one extending from the ranges of the Hindukush to the borders of Peshawar basin; and the southern one extending from Peshawar to the Derajat basin.
		Neighbouring regions include Afghanistan to the west and north, and the Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir to the northeast and east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_West_Frontier_Province,_Pakistan (2458 words)

	North-West Frontier Province - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about North-West Frontier Province
		The North-West Frontier province was dissolved in 1955, became part of West Pakistan province, and regained its former provincial status in 1970.
		The North-West Frontier areas were then annexed by the British and formed part of the Punjab until the North-West Frontier province, administered from Peshawar, was created in 1901.
		Province of Pakistan; capital Peshawar&; area 74,500 sq km/28,800 sq mi; population (1993 est) 20,090,000.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /North-West+Frontier+Province (554 words)

	North-West Frontier Province -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is bounded by Afghanistan to the west and north, Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas (the Pakistani-administered areas of the Kashmir region) to the east and northeast, Punjab province to the southeast, and Balochistan province to the southwest.
		It became part of Pakistan in 1947 and lies on the west bank of the Indus River, 15 miles (24 km) north of the Tarbela Dam and northwest of Abbottabad.
		It is bounded by Canada on the north, Minnesota on the east, South Dakota on the south, and Montana on the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056228 (853 words)

	Practices and problems of female health/medical technicians in North-west Frontier Province, Pakistan
		To begin with, the Directorate of Health Services in North-west Frontier Province (NWFP), the Divisional Director of Health Services (DDHS), all district health officers (DHOs) and the examining body of technicians were contacted to acquire information about the number of FTs who have graduated since 1977 and to learn how many are still in service.
		A special effort has been made to recruit female students to the HT schools, as 70% of Pakistan's population are women and children, and women prefer to seek care from female health workers.
		Finally, the Government of NWFP, USAID/Islamabad and ADDR/Pakistan deserve to be mentioned for providing the financial support needed for the study.
	www.emro.who.int /publications/emhj/0102/14.htm (3631 words)

	Pakistan - The North-West Frontier Province
		The North-West Frontier Province has an affinity with Afghanistan in the west and is known for its well-armed populace.
		Peshawar, the largest city and capital of the province, could be accurately described as Dodge City without the benefit of a Wyatt Earp.
		Instead of producing, though, Pakistan has become more of a conduit for some of the annual 2,000 or so tons that are produced in Afghanistan.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/pakistan/dplace9.htm (388 words)

	North-West Frontier Province on Encyclopedia.com
		From 1955 to 1970 the North-West Frontier Province was a section of the consolidated province of West Pakistan.
		corrugated iron shelter in Shamlai, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, 10 January 2006, on the eve of the Muslim
		Improving urban infrastructure in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NW1F1P1rov.asp (1018 words)

	BBC NEWS World South Asia Pakistan province cheers Sharia
		Mr Khattak says that unlike the Taleban, the North West Frontier Province's leaders are moderate, but are driven to immoderate lengths by a support base of young radicals straight out of the Islamic religious schools.
		Mr Azam says he wants his province to be a test case for the rest of the country.
		The MMA were delivering on an election promise to line the province's education, judicial and economic systems with Islamic principles.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/2958050.stm (683 words)

	BBC NEWS South Asia Sharia law for Pakistan province
		Legislators in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province have passed a bill introducing Islamic Sharia law in the region bordering Afghanistan.
		Many people in North-West Frontier Province have close ideological ties to the Taleban.
		He is keen to convince his Western allies that Pakistan is an ally in the war against terrorism, nor part of the problem.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2956920.stm (452 words)

	Case Study of the Barani Area Development Project North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
		NWFP is the smallest of Pakistan’s provinces in terms of area; its estimated population is over 20 million (more than 80 percent of which is rural), and the area is 74,500 km
		Forest area is 22 percent of the total reported area, and the forests are spread almost evenly between the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush.
		They retain within their villages a tradition, though weakened, of communal action for the management of the property of the villages, and the joint use of forests and ranges.
	srdis.ciesin.columbia.edu /cases/pakistan-005.html (2641 words)

	Transhumant grazing systems in temperate Asia
		The study involved two distinct herder groups using the same summer pastures: local farmers who take their herds to the high pastures in summer, and herding nomads with no settled homes who move between the high pastures and the foothills in Punjab and North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
		Hay is taken from the winter grazing areas (the temperate and subtropical humid zones in Kaghan Valley and the subtropical subhumid zone in the foothills of NWFP and Punjab province) of the nomads and semi-nomadic graziers.
		Subalpine pastures at Suri Paya, Kaghan Valley, Pakistan, with the earth-roofed dwellings (kacha) of the herders.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/006/y4856e/y4856e0g.htm (7937 words)

	Search Results for Peshawar - Encyclopædia Britannica
		historical region in what is now northwestern Pakistan, corresponding to the Vale of Peshawar and having extensions into the lower valleys of the Kabul and Swat rivers.
		City (pop., 1998 est.: 988,055), capital of North-West Frontier...
		The city (capital of the province) lies just west of the Bara River, a tributary of the Kabul River, near the Khyber Pass.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Peshawar&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (357 words)

	Balakot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a famous tourist destination of the region is one of the first stops for tourists who wish to visit the secluded but beautiful Kaghan valley of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
		Balakot (Urdu:بالاکوٹ), located about thirty kilometres from the city of Mansehra, is a town in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balakot (189 words)

	Save the Children: Pakistan
		Pakistan is today the seventh largest country in the world with a population of 149 million and it is on its way to becoming the third largest by 2050.
		Currently, the Pakistan Field Office implements two programs in Pakistan: the Pakistan program for Pakistani beneficiaries and the Afghan refugee program for Afghan refugees who have not been able to repatriate to Afghanistan because of ethnic or economic constraints.
		Pakistan’s development indicators are not only grim but also alarming due to the sheer numbers involved.
	www.savethechildren.org /countries/asia/pakistan/index.asp (1028 words)

	The Secretary-General Off the Cuff
		North West Frontier Province, Pakistan - Secretary-General's comments to Assembly of Afghan Elders, followed by question and answer session with the media, Shamshatoo Refugee Camp (unofficial transcript)
		During that period, Pakistan has received millions of Afghan refugees and on behalf of all the Afghan population here and the Afghans who have been through Pakistan, I would want to thank the Government and the people of Pakistan, and the people of this province in particular, for their hospitality and kindness.
		Have you discussed with the authorities here the ban on the flow of new refugees and the deportations of Afghans that are taking place, and my second question is [that the political process] now seems to have to come to a dead end in the view of many others.
	www.un.org /apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=163 (1366 words)

	Waziristan < Provinces < Pakistan < South Asia < Asia < : news
		Authorities in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal agency said on Monday that two soldiers were injured in a roadside bomb blast in this tribal area.
		Pakistan has been a key ally of the United States since it launched its war on al-Qaeda and Taliban after devastating attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.
		The militants are strongest in North and South Waziristan, two of seven tribal agencies on the border with Afghanistan.
	schema-root.org /region/asia/south_asia/pakistan/provinces/waziristan (4711 words)

	Non-Wood Forest Products in Asia - Pakistan
		According to a recent survey, the farmlands in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) alone carry a total growing stock of 80 million trees (14 million cubic meters), i.e., 46 trees or 8 cubic meters per hectare (Amjad, 1990).
		Traditional beekeeping by rearing colonies of Oriental bees (Apis cerana) in earthen pots and log hollows fixed in the walls of the houses is popular among women living in remote forest areas in the north and northwest parts of the country.
		Pakistan has limited, but diverse, forest resources spread over an area of 4.37 million hectares, or about 5 percent of the country's total area.
	www.fao.org /docrep/X5334e/x5334e08.htm (5806 words)

	CIPFA International
		This Christmas I returned with my wife to the Frontier for three weeks and was invited to a rural government school in the Kaghan Valley to help a Pakistani English teacher friend promote his subject.
		The Kaghan and Swat mountain valleys and northern sub-Himalayan districts of Northern Pakistan are home to some of the most spectacular hill and mountain scenery in the whole world.
		In Pakistan, as with many parts of the non-Western world, it's not what you know but the network of people you know.
	www.cipfa.org.uk /international/news_details.cfm?news_id=19553 (1462 words)

	ADB Approves $301 Million for Road Improvements in Pakistan's NW Frontier Province
		With a poverty incidence of 44%, far above the national average of 33%, North-West Frontier Province is the poorest of Pakistan's four provinces.
		The North-West Frontier Province Road Development Sector and Subregional Connectivity Project will boost access of the rural population to economic opportunities and services and promote trade by enhancing connections to the Afghan border and Karachi ports.
		It is part of sequenced assistance to individual provinces by ADB for integrated development of the national, provincial, and rural access roads along with interrelated policy reforms in the sector.
	www.adb.org /Media/Articles/2004/6317_pakistan_road?RegistrationID=238 (739 words)

	UNICEF - Pakistan -
		NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, Pakistan, 22 December 2005- The long shadows of winter are falling on the Himalayan mountains.
		BALAKOT, Pakistan, 2 December 2005— UNICEF Pakistan Communication Officer Javier Marroquin speaks to Nisreen Bibi, a 20-year-old mother and earthquake survivor who now lives with her family in the newly set up Jaba camp, Mansehra, North* West Frontier Province.
		MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, 2 December 2005— With the northern Pakistan winter weather beginning to bite and thousands of earthquake survivors living in tented camps, UNICEF is helping healthcare workers here fight the threat of freezing temperatures and disease for children and women by providing emergency health supplies.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/pakistan_pakistan_newsline.html (3148 words)

	Pakistan - North-West Frontier Province Community Infrastructure Project
		In Chor Lakki, a neglected village perched atop muddy hills 160 km south of Peshawar, the provincial capital of the North-West Frontier Province, most of the population is living without the basic amenities of life.
		in Pakistan is an example of a demand-driven approach to address the challenge of adequate sanitation and water preservation.
		Moreover, the lack of adequate sanitation is a major cause of the degradation of the quality of ground and surface water.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/PAKISTANEXTN/0,,contentMDK:20170507~pagePK:141137~piPK:217854~theSitePK:293052,00.html (851 words)

	IHEU Opposes Sharia in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province International Humanist and Ethical Union
		The International Humanist and Ethical Union notes with dismay the decision of the Provincial Assembly of the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan to introduce strict Sharia law in the province.
		We join with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, and Human Rights and Women's rights groups around the world, in condemning this move.
		people of Pakistan to do everything in their power to overturn this decision.
	www.iheu.org /node/78 (231 words)

	Dosti Foundation
		Pipeline project in Khanwaray village in Dir Agency, North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
		To that end Dosti has installed 25 hand pumps in remote areas of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
		The cost of installing a well is well worth the expense because it saves a great deal of hardship that women have to undergo to bring water from several miles away.
	www.dosti.org /about/water.php (101 words)

	Waziristan (Pakistan)
		Waziristan Mountain tract, SW North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan; 4373 sq.
		(1961) 394,312; divided into North Waziristan (formerly Tochi) and South Waziristan (formerly Wana); lies along border of Afghanistan; inhabited by Wazirs, a Pathan tribe, divided into the Darwesh Khel and Mahsuds; their chief town is Kaniguram.
		Since 1860 there have been several uprisings in Waziristan; most serious against the British, called the Third Afghan War, was in 1919-22, when Mahsuds rose in revolt.
	flagspot.net /flags/pk!waz.html (159 words)

	AmeriCares - Humanitarian Lifeline to the World
		With more than 135,000 pounds of medical aid being distributed to Kashmir and the North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan, AmeriCares’ response to the deadly October 8 earthquake is focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable survivors.
		In the adjoining North-West Frontier Province, people in many communities have been similarly affected and local medical facilities have been coping valiantly with the needs of the injured.
		A state-of-the-art clinic, comprised of several integrated, climate-controlled tent-like structures is being shipped to Pakistan, where it will be set up in Bana, a town in the Alai Valley.
	www.americares.org /news?id=119 (395 words)

	Kenneth THOMAS: Institute of Archaeology UCL
		Archaeological Explorations and Excavations in Bannu District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.
		Routes of passage: later prehistoric settlement and exploitation of a frontier region in northwestern Pakistan.
		Environmental and economic context of early Iron Age urban societies in northern Pakistan.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /archaeology/staff/profiles/thomas.htm (973 words)

	CEHJ No.26 - The Importance of Primary Eye Care
		The one found useful in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan is a course of one week initially and then 2-3 day refresher courses every 6-12 months.
		Refugee children collecting milk in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan.
		The courses in PEC can be run for different periods of time depending on whether it is in-service training or part of a basic curriculum.
	www.jceh.co.uk /journal/26_04.asp (1917 words)

	Photo essay: High altitude wetlands of Pakistan
		Extensive peat bog south of Lashkargahaz, Chitral District, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan (elevation 3,649 meters).
		The braided bed of the Yarghoon River, north of Lasht, Chitral District, Pakistan (elevation 3,200 meters).
		Here are six fine photographs of high-altitude wetlands in Pakistan, illustrating a number of characteristic features of this wetland type.
	www.ramsar.org /photo/photo_essay_pakistan.htm (167 words)

	Textile Museum of Canada
		This elaborately embroidered kurta is of a type once widely worn by women in the Swat Valley in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
		In this area, the terrain is high and mountainous, with steep terraced valleys within which food is grown.
	www.textilemuseum.ca /coll_southasia3.html (119 words)

	Pakistan: SARHAD Rural Support Corporation, Pakistan
		The Sarhad Rural Support Corporation (SRSC) was established in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in November 1989, as a private, non-government and non-profit organization with the objective of alleviating rural poverty at the grassroots through training and institution building for sustainable development.
		SRSC's target is to eventually reach 165,209 households in approximately 8,000 villages of the 24 districts of the province.
		The SRSC strategy emphasizes participation of the marginalized rural community at all stages of the project cycle from problem identification and project design through to the re-planning loop bringing what is learned back into the process to inform and adjust directions and management.
	www.unescap.org /drpad/vc/conference/bg_pk_56_srs.htm (580 words)

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