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![[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province]](../images/p/pk-kp2.gif)
image located by
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
The current version of the flag is green with the colored emblem, not including the background of the outer ring. It is unclear when the version in color started being used, but it appears to have been in use for more than a decade now.
Flag photo from
https://www.linkedin.com/company/governorkhyberpakhtunkhwa
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
![[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province]](../images/p/pk-kp).gif)
image by
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo
The emblem has golden branches curved around the main circular device, tied together. The circular emblem is outlined in gold, having its upper half as blue for the sky and lower half in brown of four mountain peaks referring to Khyber Pass. Clearly representing it as the frontier of the nation, at the front of the mountains is the Jamrud Fort. Over the upper half are two swords crossed together for defense. Above the oval is a star and crescent for adherence to the faith and Nation. Date of adoption and designer unclear.
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
![[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province]](../images/p/pk-kp.gif)
image located by
Valentin Poposki, 28 June 2011
The Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa changed its flag following the change of
the name and of the coat of arms (emblem). It is now shown in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg.
Valentin Poposki, 28 June 2011
I somehow doubt this version with the dove existed. I can't find anything
online about it, so it really can't be confirmed.
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
Vexilla Mundi has a drawing of the flag. It also shows some variations for
the other province's flags:
https://www.vexilla-mundi.com/pakistan_divisions.html
Valentin Poposki, 23 October 2025
![[Northwest Frontier Province]](../images/p/pk-nwf.gif)
by
Arfan Hashmi, 23 May 2005
An earlier version lacked the dove, placed the star and crescent inside the circle, and had the Roman letters NWFP on the ribbon.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province flag shows Jamrud Fort, the guardian of the
Khyber Pass and mountains in the back.
Arfan Hashmi, 23 May 2005
![[Northwest Frontier Province governor]](../images/p/pk-nwfgv.gif)
by
Joe McMillan
Governor's House in Peshawar has three flagpoles, the center one a bit higher
flying the Pakistani national flag. The one on the right was empty the day we
were there, while that on the left flew a green flag with a device on the center
in yellow. A former minister of the Northwest Frontier Province government told
me that all Pakistani governors have green flags with the provincial emblem.
However, I noted that the emblem on his business card (and seen at
http://www.nwfp.pak.gov) was slightly
different from that on the paper napkins at Governor's House. The governor's
flag appeared to have a wreath encircling the emblem, and it made sense for the
governor's flag to have the governor's seal on it, so I scanned the emblem on
the image (above) from the napkin that I liberated from the house. The emblem
shows Jamrud Fort at the bottom, the historic fortification at the Pakistani end
of the Khyber Pass, mountains across the middle, and crossed sabers above the
mountains. Above the circle surrounding the above design is the crescent and
star.
On the minister's card, the crescent and star are inside the circle, taking the
place of the swords, and the initials "N.W.F.P." appear on a scroll at the
bottom.
Joe McMillan, 2 February 2002
From the image one could conclude that the crescent points to hoist. Is that
really so?
Željko Heimer, 2 February 2002
I don't really know. The wind was very light and, as I say, I couldn't even
tell absolutely for sure whether the emblem on the flag was as shown on the
napkin or on the minister's card. So you'll have to take this as an
approximation. There are flags in Pakistan, however, that have the crescent
facing the hoist when it's part of a seal or similar emblem, such as the flags
of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and of the Joint Staff
Headquarters.
Joe McMillan, 2 February 2002
![[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province]](../images/p/pk-nwfgv2.jpg)
image located by
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
A version of the "governor's flag" existed until 2024 (albeit with a scroll under the bottom reading Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) being used by the Chief Minister.
Source: https://amu.tv/156077
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
![[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province]](../images/p/pk-kp3.jpg)
image located by
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
Source: https://www.geo.tv/latest
The chief minister uses a variant which has a single white and green mountain. Furthermore, the branches are bronze and underneath there is a scroll reading the provincial name.
Daniel Rentería, 19 October 2025
Some of the flags of Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan can be viewed at www.umarmarwat.com/lakki.
See also: Marwat flags
Tariq Saleem Marwat, 5 October 2003
![[Sangota Swat]](../images/p/pk-kp-ssvc.gif)
image located by Vanja Poposki, 4 May 2022
The flag of the Village Council of Sangota Swat in the Province of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
https://www.facebook.com/vcsangota/videos/483233453305824
Vanja
Poposki, 4 May 2022
