NORTH-WEST FRONTIER

Evening Star, Issue 21012, 28 January 1932, Page 6

NORTH-WEST FRONTIER

TO BE CONSTITUTED GOVERNOR'S PROVINCE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 27. (Received January 28, at 9 a.m.) It is announced that the North-West Frontier Province, which hitherto, owing to its strategic importance, has been directly under the Indian Government, will be constituted at once a Governor’s province, and will have a Legislative Council of forty members. [The North-West Frontier Province was constituted in 1901 by the transfer from the Punjab of portions of the districts of Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, and Dera Ismail Khan (area, 13,419 square miles; population 2,425,076 partly estimated). Attached to the province are the five transborder political agencies of Malakand, Khyber, Kurram, Tochi, and Wane, together with tribal areas under the control of the deputy commissioners of the fi T e settled districts first above mentioned. The officer in charge is directly responsible to the Government of India. The people are chiefly Mohammedans, and the chief languages are Pashto and Western Punjabi. Tie province produces wheat, barley, aid other grains, oil seeds, cotton, etc It has considerable trade with Afghanistan.]