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According to Denis Hayes, the first Earth Day 1970 organizer and current Board Chair Emeritus of Earthday.org, Earth Day is now "the largest secular day of protest in the world, and more than a billion people participate in Earth Day actions every year." [36] By far the largest source of funding for the first Earth Day was organized labor.
Following is the list of monuments and archaeological sites in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.A total 85 sites in the province were under the protection of the Federal Government.
The region's history is characterized by frequent invasions by various empires, largely due to its geographical proximity to the historically important Khyber Pass. [ 8 ] Although it is colloquially known by a variety of other names, the name "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" was brought into effect for the North-West Frontier Province in April 2010 ...
The region of Gandhara, which was primarily based in the area of modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa features prominently in the Rigveda (c. 1500 – c. 1200 BC), [4] [5] as well as the Zoroastrian Avesta, which mentions it as Vaēkərəta, the sixth most beautiful place on earth created by Ahura Mazda. It was one of the 16 Mahajanapadas of Vedic era.
BISE Peshawar was established in 1961 by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Previously, it was conducting the examination of intermediate and secondary education for the whole Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province but later, new educational boards were established in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by the government and now its jurisdiction is Peshawar Division.
The Directorate of Archives and Libraries, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is attached to the Department of Higher Education, Archives & Libraries Department, responsible for the collection and protection of official records and historical research; restoration of all the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa records; and the administration, development and maintenance of public libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
With the beginning of the Indus civilization around the middle of the 3rd millennium BCE, [22] an advanced urban culture developed for the first time in the region, with large buildings, some of which survive to this day. [23] Mohenjo Daro, Harappa, and Kot Diji are among the pre-Islamic settlements that are now tourist attractions.
The Gandhara grave culture of present-day Pakistan is known by its "protohistoric graves", which were spread mainly in the middle Swat River valley and named the Swat Protohistoric Graveyards Complex, dated in that region to c. 1200 –800 BCE. [1]