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Aba Khel

Aba Khel, Tank, a village of Tank District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district, Pakistan

Aitzaz Hasan

The Minister for Information in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Shah Farman, said that Aitzaz was a "real hero and true face of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa".

Amanullah Khan Jadoon

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

Ansar-ul-Islam

Ansar ul-Islam: a Barelvi Sunni Muslim group in the Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan

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.

Battle of Ghazni

In the 1830s, the British were firmly entrenched in India but by 1837, the British feared a Russian invasion of India through the Khyber and Bolan Passes as the Russian Empire had expanded towards the British dominion of India.

Benazir Bhutto University

Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, previously known as the Frontier Women University, in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Chhachh

It is located 20.4 kilometres from Attock city and 22.9 kilometres from Topi Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Dakhna

Dakhna, Pakistan, village in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Darra

Darra Adam Khel - a semi-autonomous tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, south of the Khyber Pass

Dasht-e Yahudi

The word Dasht-e Yahudi was used for the most Western parts of modern-day Peshawar, Charsadda, Malakand and Mardan districts where these border with Khyber and Mohmand Agencies.

Datta

Datta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - a Union Council of Mansehra District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa

David Aldus

His Father, John Macdonald Aldus was a Company Sergeant Major in the South Wales Borderers, as was his father, killed in action in the Khyber pass.

Dhodial

Dhodial (also known as Dhudial) is a town and union council located near Baffa between Mansehra and Shinkiari in Mansehra District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Geography of Pakistan

Among them are the Khojak Pass, about eighty kilometres northwest of Quetta in Balochistan; the Khyber Pass, forty kilometres west of Peshawar and leading to Kabul; and the Broghol Pass in the far north, providing access to the Wakhan Corridor.

George Keppel

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

Goreeni

Goreeni is located in the South of Abbottabad district and forms part of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's border with Punjab province where it borders Murree Tehsil of Rawalpindi District.

Gun politics in Pakistan

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the Pashtun residents laud performances of strength and toughness, carrying a Kalashnikov or other gun is a sign of honour and respect.

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.

Khan Amirzadah Khan

Whilst addressing the students, Hayat Mohammed Khan Sherpao, senior minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and president of the provincial PPP, was blown up by a bomb and killed.

Khushal Khan Khattak

The Khattak tribe of Khushal Khan now mostly lives in areas of Karak, Kohat, Nowshera, Akora Khattak, Cherat, Peshawar, Mardan and in other parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Khyal Muhammad

After establishing his name on the local radio, in 1973–74 Khyal Mohammad appeared in his first movie, Dara-i-Khyber, one of the first "Pollywood" Pashto movies.

Khyber Arts Society

The Khyber Arts Society operates the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art art gallery located in a Historical Property owned by the Halifax Regional Municipality at 1588 Barrington St (known as "The Khyber") in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Konsh Valley

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

Kurai

Band Kurai, a town in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Kurai, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a town in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Manwan

Manwan, Pakistan, settlement in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Paharpur

Paharpur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a town and tehsil headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Palak

It forms part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa border with Punjab province and Kashmir, and it also borders the following Union Councils within Abbottabad district, Seer Gharbi to the west, Nathiagali to the North and Malkot to the north west.

Parachinar

From the British side the camp was attended by Sir Mortimer Durand and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Political Agent Khyber.

Pawa

Pawa, Pakistan, one of the 51 Union Councils of Abbottabad District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Pervez Khattak administration

On Nov 13 2013, Dawn News reported that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan ended his party’s alliance with the Qaumi Watan Party after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak ‘dismissed’ two QWP ministers on corruption charges.

Pessie Madan

In 1943, Madan was commissioned into the British Army in India, where he commanded a field unit in the turbulent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Qurban Ali

Qurban Ali Khan, former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan

Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum

From The British Side the camp was Attended by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Assistant Political Agent Khyber.

Sangara

Sangara, Pakistan, village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.

Sardar Aurang Zeb Khan

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

Shergarh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Shergarh, Mardan, a town in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Shergarh, Tanawal, a village in the Oghi tehsil of Mansehra District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, which was once the capital of the former Tanawal State of Amb

Shergarh, Tanawal

Shergarh was traditionally the summer residence of the Nawabs of Amb, which was incorporated in Pakistan in 1972, and is now part of Mansehra district of Hazara division, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province.

The Sonora Kid

North of Khyber (First published in North of the Khyber, December 1987)

Tirah Campaign

Suddenly, however, the tribesmen rose, captured all the posts in the Khyber held by their own countrymen, and attacked the forts on the Samana Range near the city of Peshawar.

Toru

Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Up the Khyber

The title is something of a rude joke since 'Khyber' is Cockney rhyming slang ('Khyber Pass' = 'arse').


see also

Darah

Darah, Pakistan, village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan

Potha

Potha, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - a village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Roomi S. Hayat

In 1986 he joined Small Industries Development Board, Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, as Joint Director – Training and Research Department.