SWAT, (DNA) –  The area of Swat’s seven tehsils will be no more called the ‘Yousafzai state of Swat’. Marring the historic status of the royal state of Swat and loosening the bond between the 2.3 million population, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government has announced further division of Swat district.

K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khattak’s announcement, made on October 20, has spread waves of discomfort with the area’s leaders ready to oppose any such move from the center as well from the provincial government.

“When we were ruling Swat as a state, there were no calls for division, no hue and cry over health or education facilities, complaints about water or poor infrastructure in the state… but today for political point scoring they [K-P government] are up for further division of the reaming area of the state, which we will oppose,” the son of last prince of Swat state Mian Gul prince Adnan Aurangzeb told.