Peshawar (Urdu: پشاور),(Pashto: پېښور) is the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Peshawar is the largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and by the 1998 census was the ninth-largest city of Pakistan. Peshawar is a metropolitan city and the administrative centre and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated in a large valley near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, close to the Pak-Afghan border.
Population: 1,218,773
Latitude: 34° 00' 28.80" N
Longitude: 71° 34' 42.56" E
Bacha Khan International Airport (IATA: PEW, ICAO: OPPS) (Urdu: باچا خان بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈہ; Pashto: د باچا خان نړیوال هوایی ډګر), previously called Peshawar International Airport ( د پېښور نړیوال هوائی ډګر ), is an international airport locat…
Bala Hissar (Pashto/Urdu/Persian: قلعه بالا حصار) is one of the most historic places of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The word Bala Hissar is from Dari Persian, meaning, "elevated or high fort". The name was given by the Pashtun King Timu…
Islamia College University (Urdu: اسلامیہ کالج یونیورسٹی) is a public research university located in midst of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The Swat River (Pashto: د سوات سیند) is a perennial river in the northern region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.
Peshawar (Pashto: پېښور) is a district located in the Pakistan Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The district seat is Peshawar. As of 2014, the population was 3,575,000, making it the most populous district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Arbab Niaz Stadium is a Test cricket ground in Peshawar, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The Badaber uprising (26 - 27 April 1985, Badaber, Pakistan) was an armed rebellion by Soviet and Afghan prisoners of war who were being held at the Badaber fortress near Peshawar, Pakistan. The prisoners fought the Pakistan army and the Afghan Muja…
Hayatabad is a modern suburb on the south-western fringe of Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It was named after Hayat Sherpao, former Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and a notable leader of Pakistan Peoples Party.
The Jamrud Fort is located besides Bab-e-Khyber at the entrance to the Khyber Pass in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.
Nasir Bagh (Pashto: ناصر باغ) is an Afghan refugee camp on the edge of Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (known in Afghanistan as "شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ Śhumāl Maġribī Sarhadī Sūbha") province of Pakistan.
The Lady Reading Hospital (Hindko/Urdu: لیڈی ریڈنگ ہسپتال پشاور) is located at Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. It is one of the most important post graduate medical institutes in Pakistan. It is also called Loye Huspatal (big hospita…
All Saints Church (built 1883), located inside the Kohati Gate of the old walled city of Peshawar in Pakistan, is a parish of the Church of Pakistan.
PAF Base Peshawar is an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force located in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing occurred in Peshawar, Pakistan, when a car bomb was detonated in a Mina Bazar (Market for women and children) of the city. The bomb killed 137 people and injured more than 200 others, making it the deadliest atta…
Latifabad (Urdu: لطِيف آباد), is a town in the southern suburbs of the city of Hyderabad, in Sindh, Pakistan.
Bara River (Pashto: باړه سیند; Urdu: دریائے باڑہ ) is a river in Khyber Agency and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Bara River originates in the Tirah Valley of Bara Tehsil, Khyber Agency. It joins the Kabul River Canal which originates from the …
Jalozai (also Jailozai and Jallozai) refugee camp, 35 kilometres southeast of Peshawar, Pakistan, was one of the largest of 150 refugee or transit camps in Pakistan, holding Afghan refugees from the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It had an es…
Bara (Urdu: تحصیل باڑہ ) is a tehsil located in Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan.
