North-West Frontier States Agency

The North-West Frontier States Agency was one of the colonial Agencies of British India exercising indirect rule.

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It comprised the tribal areas associated with the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in Pakistan).

The agencies in FATA, were led under their respective tribal Chiefs.

Hazara Tribal Agency was led under 5 Swati Khans, i.e Khan of Allai, Khan of Thakot, Khan of Hill, Khan of Battagram and Khan of Trand.

Princely States

Then the only salute state was :

One then non-salute state would later outrank Chitral by Pakistani presidential grant of a Hereditary salute of 15-guns in 1966 :

The rest remained non-salute states :

Former princely states in Pakistan, by present province (Italics = Salute states)

Balochistan	Punjab	Sindh	Gilgit-Baltistan	Other Frontier States, notably Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kalat (premier state) Kharan Las Bela Makran	Bahawalpur	Khairpur Mirpur State	Hunza Nagar	Amb (Tanawal) Chitral D(h)ir Jando(o)l (Jandul) Phulra(h) Swat Yasin