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Afghania
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English
Etymology
en :af Afghan -ia
From en Afghan -ia a person of Pashtun ethnicity place land. Coined by Choudhary Rahmat Ali who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never issued on January 28, 1933 as the "a" in en Pakistan (then Pakstan). Compare la Afgania.
Proper noun
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en largely _ obsolete en Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in northwestern Pakistan
en historical en North-West Frontier Province official name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until 2010
See also
en Gandhara another proposed name for the North-West Frontier Province before "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" was settled on