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Peshawar District (Pashto: پېښور ولسوالۍ, Hindko: ضلع پشور, Urdu: ضلع پشاور) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located about 160 km west of the Pakistan's capital Islamabad .
Peshawar District is divided into five towns: [1] Town I; Town II; Town III; Town IV; Town V (Ex-FR Peshawar) These towns are further subdivided into 103 union councils, with each union council having an elected "Nazim".
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
The population of Peshawar district in 1998 was 2,026,851. [129] The city's annual growth rate is estimated at 3.29% per year, [130] and the 2016 population of Peshawar district is estimated to be 3,405,414. [131] With a population of 1,970,042 according to the 2017 census, Peshawar is the sixth-largest city of Pakistan.
Nishterabad is located off the Grand Trunk (GT) road in Peshawar. [5] [6] [7] It is famous for its CDs and telefilms production and is the hub of CDs and telefilms business but with advent of mobile and internet streaming plus memory card and USB led to decline of CDs production. During its heydays (2004-2010), when the production of CD drama ...
Peshawar Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008.
Abbottabad District: Hazara Division: 41 Havelian Tehsil: 342 256,754 98.8 76.08% 42 Lora Tehsil: 187 98,717 97.22 73.73% 43 Lower Tanawal Tehsil: 153 60,262 98.88 71.66% 44 Allai Tehsil: 804 218,149 271.33 35.71% Batagram District: 45 Batagram Tehsil: 497 335,984 676.02 41.20% 46 Ghazi Tehsil: 595 151,839 255.19 69.69% Haripur District: 47 ...
The main settlement in Peshawar division is Kalakhel. Prior to 2018, this administrative subdivision was known as Peshawar Subdivision, and formerly also known as Frontier Region Peshawar was a subdivision of Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The region was named after Peshawar District which lies to the north and west. [2]