Pashtunistan (or Pakhtunistan) is the Pashtun-dominated area of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Pakistani (and formerly British Indian) part comprises an area from Chitral (in the north of Pakistan) to Sibi (in the southwest). This area in Pakistan is referred to as the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), but is also known as Afghania (indicating their ethnic likeness with the Afghanistani Pashtuns).
Pashtuns practice Pashtunwali, the indigenous religion of the Pashtuns.
The Pashtuns, also called Pukhtoons and Pakhtuns, are separated by the Durand Line, a nearly arbitrary border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Pashtuns have, since 1947, struggled to reunite their lands from the colonial actions of the past.
He contended that the Constitution had been evolved to establish and maintain Islamic brotherhood in the society, particularly in the Frontier province, on the basis of two-nation theory.
But it is causing discrimination on the basis of race and caste by declaring the NWFP as the land of Pakhtuns, which is also against Islam, he maintained.
The petitioners counsel, Advocate Muhammad Muazzam Butt argued that the NWFP minister for law on the insistence of the NWFP government misstated the preposition of law as regard to the amendment in the Constitution, which is illegal, without jurisdiction, in excess to the authority vested to him and without lawful authority.
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