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unusual facts about Kalinjar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa



5 April 2010 Peshawar bombings

Hours earlier 44 people died in a suicide attack at a rally in the north-western town of Timergara, Lower Dir District, during a meeting of the Awami National Party (ANP), the ruling coalition in North West Frontier Province.

Abbottabad Jamia Public School

Abbottabad Jamia Public School (or AJPC) is located at College Road, Karimpura, Abbottabad city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan.

Amanullah Khan Jadoon

Amanullah Khan Jadoon was twice elected as an MPA, (Member of the Provincial Assembly) of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Astore District

The district contains the Astore Valley and is bounded to the west by Diamer District (from which is was separated in 2004), to the north by Gilgit District, to the east by Skardu District and to the south by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Neelum District of Azad Kashmir.

Ayub School of Nursing

The Ayub School of Nursing (ASN), located in Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, is the nursing education unit of Ayub Medical College, however most teaching and training occurs at Ayub Teaching Hospital.

Badawi Pass

The Badawi Pass is a pass that connects Upper Dir District with Kohistan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Banda district

Banda is famous for its Shajar stone, used for making jewellery, and the historically and architecturally significant sites Khajuraho and Kalinjar.

Bostan Khan

Bostan Khan (died 1825),was a warrior of the Tareen (or Tarin) tribe settled in the Haripur, Hazara region of what was to later become the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), who was executed for 'rebellion' by the Sikh administrators of the region at that time.

Datta Khel airstrike

The governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Syed Masood Kausar, also strongly condemned the attack, saying that civilians and policemen were killed.

Dera Ismail Khan cricket team

Dera Ismail Khan is a former first-class cricket team in Pakistan from the town of Dera Ismail Khan in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

George Keppel

George Roos-Keppel (1866–1921), British soldier, Chief Commissioner of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

George Mikell

Now retired from acting, Mikell has written two film scripts, numerous short stories and in 2002 published an essay of his 2001 trip to the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Ghulam Muhammad Qasir

Ghulam Muhammad Qasir was born in Paharpur, Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) now called khyber Pakhtunkhwa KPK , Pakistan, on September 4, 1944.

History of Gilgit–Baltistan

Gilgit Baltistan borders Azad Kashmir to the southwest, the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the northwest, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to the north and northeast and the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir to the southeast.

Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy

The Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy (INOR), located in Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, is affiliated with Ayub Medical College and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

Jamrud Fort

The Jamrud Fort is located at the entrance to the Khyber Pass in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Kalinjar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Village in this union Council is Sawabi Mera, Mari, Gandaf, Khairi, Kani Kot, Dalri, Nari, Jam (Known as Jamman) and many more small villages.

Khanpur Dam

The local community, led by Abdul Bashir Khan (the father of Saeed Khan), the young secretary of Khanpur’s WAPDA Union in the early 1970s, took on the Ghakhars and their friends in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa parliament.

Konsh Valley

The Konsh Valley is located on extreme Northern border of the Mansehra district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Maidan,Dir lower

Maidan is a scenic valley in the Lower Dir District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Miranzai Valley

The Miranzai Valley, also Hangu, is a mountainous valley situated in the Kohat and Hangu districts in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Murree Brewery

The brewery has two manufacturing units located in Rawalpindi and Hattar (North-West Frontier Province).

NATO–Pakistan relations

In late 2013, the PTI-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province blocked the Torkham supply line to protest drone attacks in Pakistan.

North West Frontier Province

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four present-day provinces of Pakistan, known as "North-West Frontier Province" until 2010, with an area of 74,521 km².

North-West Frontier Province

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, known as the North-West Frontier Province from 1955 to 2010

Omer Tarin

Tarin was born in 1966 to the Tarin (or Tareen) family, or clan, of the Hazara region of the North-West Frontier (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), while his father was posted as a senior civil servant and administrator in Peshawar.

Pakistanis in Afghanistan

In January 2008, BBC reported that about 6,000 Pakistanis from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa crossed into Afghanistan, which included women and children.

Phallus calongei

Phallus calongei was discovered on June 16, 2008, near the Khanspur stream in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North Western Frontier Province) in Pakistan.

Qarie Marshall

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Marshall moved with his family to the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan where he was raised in the city of Peshawar until the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.

Sabuktigin

He defaulted upon the payments, imprisoned Sebuktigin's collectors, and assembled a more larger army of 100,000 horse and an innumerable host of foot, allied with forces from the kingdoms of Delhi, Ajmer, Kalinjar, and Kannauj, which was defeated in battle with Sebuktigin's Ghaznavids at the banks of the Neelum River in Kashmir.

Safwat Ghayur

Additional Inspector General of Police Safwat Ghayur (July 14, 1959 – August 4, 2010) was a senior two-star police officer serving in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan as commandant of the Frontier Constabulary.

Samana Range

The Samana Range is a mountain ridge in the Kohat District of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, commanding the southern boundary of Tirah.

Sanwla

The Sanwla (Urdu: سانولہ) is a Muslim tribe of Pakistan who are found mainly in the Dera Ismail Khan District, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.They speak Saraiki Language.

Sardar Aurang Zeb Khan

Sardar Aurang Zeb Khan was a Pakistani politician from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Shalman

Shalman also spelled as Shilman or Shelman, which is known as Shalman Valley is also a big area near Peshawar District, in Khyber agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.

Shamozai

Shamozai is a union council, sub tehsil (Tehsil:Barikot) (District:Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) and a group of villages also known as Aalaqa (area) Shamozai located on the right bank of Swat River bordering district Dir, Malakand Agency and Tehsil Kabal of District:Swat.

Son of a Lion

Son of a Lion is a 2007 Australian-Pakistani drama film set in Darra Adam Khel, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Ted Badcock

Badcock was born in Abbottabad in North-West Frontier Province of British India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan).

The Fazlehaq College Mardan

The Fazlehaq College Mardan was brought into existence by the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) General (r) Fazle Haq and the educationist Abdul Ali Khan (son of the politician Bacha Khan) and brother of the pukhthoon poet, thinker and philosopher Abdul Ghani Khan in the 1980s.

The people vs. Kreuzer, Turnwald-Wacker, Müller

City University of Science & Information Technology, (CUSIT) Peshawar is one of the first private-sector universities, chartered by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, recognized by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), permitted by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).


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