Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is also the main theater for Pakistan 's Zarb-e-Azb operation – a broad military campaign against militants located in the province , and neighboring FATA . By 2014 , casualty rates in the country as a whole dropped by 40 % as compared to 2011 – 2013 , with even greater drops noted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , despite the province being the site of a large massacre of schoolchildren by terrorists in December 2014
a large massacre of schoolchildren
2014 Peshawar school massacre
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa