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Kate Snow (born June 10, 1969) is an American television journalist for NBC News, serving as Senior National Correspondent to various NBC platforms, including Today, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and MSNBC. Snow also anchors NBC News Daily, and frequently substitutes for the weekday and weekend broadcast. [2]
On 3 April 1899, it was officially registered as 'Peshawar Club.' [2] After the 1947 Partition of British India, it became 'Peshawar Services Club Limited.' [2] The Pakistan Army took over in 1993, renaming it 'Peshawar Garrison Services Club' in December 1997, and finally 'Peshawar Services Club' in May 2011. [2]
Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, previously known as the Frontier Women University, is located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It was formed as result of an order from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in 2004 and the university has been functioning since 2005.
Peshawar is literally a frontier city of South-Central Asia and was historically part of the Silk Road. The Valley of Peshawar is covered with consolidated deposits of silt, sands and gravel of recent geological times. The flood Plains/Zones are the areas between Kabul River and Budni Nala. The meander flood plain extends from Warsak in the ...
Farhatullah Babar, Pakistan Peoples Party president and spokesman; Bashir Ahmad Bilour, Member of Provincial Assembly, senior minister; Samar Haroon Bilour, First female elected parliamentarian from Peshawar, MPA, widow of Haroon Bilour; Abdur Rab Nishtar, leader in Pakistan Movement; first Governor of Punjab, Pakistan; Bhim Sen Sachar, Indian ...
Shahab-e-saqib and Qallandar Urdu-language newspapers begin publication. [20] 1951 - Population: 151,776. [21] 1954 - Khyber Medical College established. 1955 City becomes part of West Pakistan. [2] The Statesman English-language newspaper begins publication. [20] Abasin Arts Society established. 1956 - City becomes part of the Islamic Republic ...
City center Peshawar. The economy of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province of Pakistan, is the 3rd largest in the country. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's share of Pakistan's total GDP has historically comprised 10.5%, although the province accounts for 11.9% of Pakistan's total population, rendering it the second-poorest province after neighboring Balochistan.
On 23 April 1930, British Indian Army troops opened fire on a crowd of anti-colonial protestors at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar, killing nearly 400 people. [4] The colonial authorities ultimately acknowledged that the British Indian Army had killed 179 people in the massacre, which triggered protests across India and catapulted the newly formed Khudai Khidmatgar movement into prominence.