North West Frontier

North West Frontier may refer to:

  • North West Frontier Province, Pakistan or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955), a province of British India and later of Pakistan
    • North-West Frontier (military history), the military frontier
  • North West Frontier (film), a 1959 British adventure film starring Kenneth Moore

Famous quotes containing the words north, west and/or frontier:

    “I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.”
    —Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Zab (Robert Carradine)

    “It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)