The document discusses the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It notes that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is divided into 25 districts, including 20 Settled Area Districts and 5 Provincially Administered Tribal Area Districts. The administration of the PATA districts is handled differently than the settled districts, with authority vested in the President and Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa according to the Pakistani constitution. The 5 PATA districts are Amb, Swat, Dir, Chitral and Kohistan.
The document discusses the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It notes that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is divided into 25 districts, including 20 Settled Area Districts and 5 Provincially Administered Tribal Area Districts. The administration of the PATA districts is handled differently than the settled districts, with authority vested in the President and Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa according to the Pakistani constitution. The 5 PATA districts are Amb, Swat, Dir, Chitral and Kohistan.
The document discusses the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It notes that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is divided into 25 districts, including 20 Settled Area Districts and 5 Provincially Administered Tribal Area Districts. The administration of the PATA districts is handled differently than the settled districts, with authority vested in the President and Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa according to the Pakistani constitution. The 5 PATA districts are Amb, Swat, Dir, Chitral and Kohistan.
The 25 districts are: Abbottabad; Bannu; Batagram; Buner; Charsadda; Chitral; Dera Ismail Khan; Dir Upper; Dir Lower; Hangu; Haripur; Kala Dhaka; Karak; Kohat; Kohistan; Lakki Marwat; Malakand; Mansehra; Mardan; Nowshera; Peshawar; Swabi; Swat; Shangla; Tank Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is divided into 25 districts, comprising 20 Settled Area Districts and 5 Provincially Administered Tribal Area (PATA) Districts. The administration of the PATA districts is vested in the President of Pakistan and the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, by Articles 246 and 247 of the Constitution of Pakistan After Ayub Khan eliminated Pakistan's provinces, Yahya Khan, in 1969, abolished this "one unit" scheme and added Amb, Swat, Dir, Chitral and Kohistan to the new North-West Frontier Province as theProvincially Administered Tribal Areas.