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Peshawar has historically served as the political centre of the region, and is currently the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The city and province have been historically regarded to be strongholds of the Awami National Party – a secular left-wing and moderate-nationalist party.
Peshawar District (Pashto: پېښور ولسوالۍ, Hindko: ضلع پشور, Urdu: ضلع پشاور) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located about 160 km west of the Pakistan's capital Islamabad .
Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is the largest city in the province and one of the largest in Pakistan.
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
For better administration of the region, Peshawar and the adjoining districts were separated from the Punjab Province in 1901. [ 34 ] Communal riots broke out in the old city of Peshawar during the spring of 1910, when the annual Hindu festival of Holi coincided with Barawafat , the annual Muslim day of mourning, resulting in a considerable ...
1948 - City becomes capital of the Peshawar province. [2] 1949 - Frontier Corps military reserve headquartered in Bala Hissar (fort). [10] 1950 University of Peshawar established. Shahab-e-saqib and Qallandar Urdu-language newspapers begin publication. [20] 1951 - Population: 151,776. [21] 1954 - Khyber Medical College established. 1955
Peshawar Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar.
Peshawar valley seen from Ranigat. The Valley of Peshawar ( Pashto : د لوی پېښور وادي ; Urdu : وادئ پشاور ), or Peshawar Basin , historically known as the Gandhara Valley , is a broad area situated in the central part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan .