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Bab-e-Khyber. / 34.0025; 71.3800. The Bab-e-Khyber ( Pashto and Urdu: باب خیبر; transl. 'Khyber Gate') [1] is a monument situated at the entrance of the Khyber Pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The gate is located immediately west of Peshawar, with the historic Jamrud Fort lying adjacent to it. [1]
The Afrīdī ( Pashto: اپريدی, plur. اپريدي; Urdu: آفریدی) are an ethnically Afghan Pashtun tribe present day tribal areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Afridis are most dominant in the Spin Ghar range west of Peshawar in Tribal areas of modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, covering most of the Khyber Pass and Maidan in Tirah.
Karkhano. / 34.00160643939962; 71.42247924187079. Karkhano ( Pashto: کارخانو) is a market area on the western side of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located in the Hayatabad suburb of the city, [1] it is located near the Khyber District, which in turn borders Afghanistan. It is considered to be the largest business hub in Peshawar.
He started uniting Misls and finally took Lahore in 1799. His coronation on 12 April 1801 marked the beginning of the Sikh Empire, which went on to conquer the whole Punjab, Kangra, parts of Kashmir and briefly, the city of Peshawar. [citation needed] List
Herat campaign of 1862–1863. Emir Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai ( Pashto / Persian: دوست محمد خان; December 23, 1792 – June 8, 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir, [5] [6] [7] was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War. [8] With the decline of the Durrani ...
Peshawar's Industrial Estate on Jamrud Road is an industrial zone established in the 1960s on 868 acres. The industrial estate hosts furniture, marble industries, and food processing industries, though many of its plots remain underutilized.
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The Khyber train safari ( Urdu: خیبر بخار سفاری, Pashto: د خیبر تپ صفري) is a defunct tourist train that was operated and maintained by Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan Railways between Peshawar and Landi Kotal. [1] The trip took approximately 1 hour and 26 minutes to cover a published distance of ...