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Peshawar Cantonment (Urdu: پشاور چھاؤنی, Pashto: د پیښور کنډک) is a garrison located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.Although the cantonment is located within Peshawar City District, it is an independent municipality under control of the Military Lands and Cantonments Department of the Ministry of Defence.
The Cantonment Executive Officer Faisal Masood is the principal executive at the local level. The board normally decides and lays down policies, while the executive officer executes these policies. He is the chief exponent of the board’s policies. He acts as an adviser and is a permanent officer specially trained in local administration.
This expansion of the Cantonment Board's jurisdiction is made possible by an amendment to Section 2 of the 1924 Cantonment Act. [ 3 ] According to the Cantonment Act of 2023, a new body known as the Directorate of Military Land and Cantonment is set to be formed.
Commander, XI Corps, Peshawar: 22 Baloch Regiment - 84 PMA LC. Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sword of Honour: 25 Inayat Hussain: Chief of Logistics Staff (CLS), GHQ, Rawalpindi: 2 Frontier Force Regiment (Guides) - 84 PMA LC: Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) 26 Tabassum Habib Director General, Joint Staff (DG JS) at JS HQ, Rawalpindi: Corps of Artillery ...
As part of the major reorganization of the Pakistani military in 1974, the XI Corps was one of three corps that were formed to strengthened the national defenses to protect the north–south links from the incursions and secret raids coming from the Afghan National Army.: 119 [5] [3] It was followed by V Corps stationed in South, having headquartered in Peshawar Cantonment with Lt-Gen. Majeed ...
Peshawar Cant railway station (PSC) Peshawar City railway station (PSH) Peshi railway station (PSI) Phularwan railway station (PHW) Phulji railway station (PHJ) Piaro Goth railway station (PRX) Pind Dadan Khan railway station (PDK) Piplan railway station (PPL) Pir Mahal railway station (PMX) Piran Ghaib railway station (PGB) Pithoro Junction ...
The division has one cantonment, the Mardan Cantonment, adjacent to the city of Mardan which had a population of 6,871, making up the division's entire military population. [12] This made only 0.17% of the entire population of the division active military personnel (one of the smallest military-civilian ratios in all of Pakistan). [citation needed]
The battle was a decisive victory for the Sikh Empire against Afghans and led to their occupation of the Peshawar Valley. [7] The city came under British rule in 1849. During British rule, Nowshera was a town and cantonment tehsil of the Peshawar District (later Peshawar Division).