Home > Peshawar
Peshāwar (known as Purushapura in the old days of Indian history) is a city in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (pop. ca. 570,000) near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass.
Peshawar used to be the capital of the Gandhara empire by Kaniska the First at 58 BC. Being among the ancient cities of the country, it has for centuries been a centre of trade between the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and central Asia. Industries include textiles, shoes, and pottery. The main postgraduate educational center of Peshawar is " university Campus" of Peshawar which consist of University of Peshawar, Agriculture University Peshawar and University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar. In recent years many private universities have also started operating in the city.
Peshawar's inhabitants consist mainly of two groups: minority Pishoris (native Peshawar people speaking Hindko) and majority Pashtuns, an ethnic group found mostly in Afghanistan. During the Afghan civil war Peshawar served as a political center for anti- SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 mujahideenMujahideen also transliterated as mujhidin mujahedeen mujahedin mujahidin mujaheddin etc. is a plural form of mujahid , which literally translates from Arabic as "struggler", someone who engages in jihad, or "struggle", but is often translated as "holy wa.
1 See also
2 External links
Cities in Pakistan
