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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 Princely States associated with the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in Pakistan).
Subagencies were the Dir, Swat and Chitral Agency and the Deputy Commissioner of Hazara acting as the Political Agent for Amb and Phulra.
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 :
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