Ia faaauau pea le faitauina o lenei palakalafa - Na faavaeina le Frontier Force Regiment i le 1957 i le tuufaatasia o le Frontier Force Regiment, le Frontier Force Rifles ma le Pathan Regiment, o i latou uma na amata mai i le British Indian Army. I le vaitaimi o le 1840s, ina ua mavae le uluai ma le lona lua
I le Anglo-Sikh Wars, Colonel Sir Henry Lawrence, o le sui o le Kamupani a Initia i Sasaʻe i le Lahore Durbar (uso o le Lieutenant-Governor o le Punjab Sir John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence) na faʻatagaina le siʻitia o le Corps of Guides ma le tele o vaega o fitafita e ala i le tuʻufaʻatasia o fitafita tuai mai le Sikh Khalsa army. I le amataga o le 1850s nisi o regiments Sikh a Lawrence na faaigoaina o le "Punjab Irregular Force", na mafua ai le igoa tauvalaau "Piffer" lea o loʻo tauaveina e le Regiment i aso nei, ma e ala i le tele o toe faʻatulagaina na faʻaiʻuina i le 1922, o nei iunite o le a avea mulimuli ane ma le 12th Frontier Force Regiment ma le 13th Frontier Force Rifles. O le faʻaaogaina o numera muamua o le regiment na faʻamutaina i le 1945, o le lua regiments na avea ma Frontier Force Regiment ma le Frontier Force Rifles, ma o regiments uma na faʻaliliuina i Pakistan e le United Kingdom i le 1947, i le tutoʻatasi i British Initia.