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unusual facts about Presentation Convent School, Peshawar



1900 in Afghanistan

Only sixty-two camel loads leave Peshawar in the year compared with 2,285 during the previous year.

28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing

The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing occurred in Peshawar, Pakistan, when a car bomb was detonated in a Mina Bazar (Market for women and children) of the city.

Abdul Majid Khan Tarin

Apart from his support of the establishment of the Islamia College, Peshawar, and support to various Indian Muslim charities, he played a considerable role in the early development of his native Haripur area in Hazara, NWFP.

Afghan Star

Afghan Star season two started in August 2006 with auditions in Kabul, Mazar, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Peshawar.

All Pakistan Music Conference

People from all walks of life, from all the big cities, Dhaka, Quetta, Karachi and Peshawar, and from towns and villages all over Pakistan attended the concerts in large numbers.

Aryan Khan

He also became interested in performing in front of the camera, and began acting on PTV in Peshawar.

Battle of Gujrat

His aim was to recover the area around Peshawar, which had been conquered by Ranjit Singh early in the nineteenth century, but his support was half-hearted.

Benazir Bhutto University

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

Children Parliament Pakistan

The members are elected from different schools of Islamabad, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Mithi, Kohlu, Balakot, Karachi and Lahore etc.

Dasht-e Yahudi

The term was used by Persian and early Mughal historians for a stretch of territory that comprised the most Western parts of modern-day Peshawar, Charsadda, Malakand and Mardan districts where these border with Khyber Agency and Mohmand Agency.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

In the mid-1980s, in Peshawar Pakistan, the militants reconstituted themselves as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, "with very loose ties to their nominal imprisoned leader, Abbud al-Zumar".

Gāndhārī language

Scholars believe that the language featured elements from the languages native to the area (pre-Indo-European population) which are related to the Indo-Aryan family to which all prakrits belong, as well as Dardic and Iranian ethnic languages (i.e. Pashto) native to Peshawar.

Godfrey Meynell

His body is laid to rest at the Guides Chapel in Mardan, near Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province, where he and his wife were married.

Golden Temple Mail

The Frontier Mail also finds a place in romanticized biographies of film actor Prithviraj Kapoor who is believed to have travelled to Bombay from his hometown of Peshawar by the Frontier Mail in 1928 to act in films.

Gorkhatri

The Sikhs converted the site into the residence and official headquarters of their mercenary general Paolo Avitabile who was governor of Peshawar from 1838-1842.

Guides Infantry

The Corps of Guides was raised at Peshawar on 14 December 1846 by Lieutenant Harry Burnett Lumsden on the orders of Sir Henry Lawrence, the British Resident at Lahore, capital of the enfeebled Sikh Empire.

Hamidullah Khan

On 5 September 1925 at Peshawar, Nawab Hamidullah Khan married Maimoona Sultan Shah Banu Begum Sahiba (1900–1982), the great-great-granddaughter of Shah Shuja of Afghanistan.

Hasan Abdal

For this purpose, Military Wings were started in 1952 in Government College, Sahiwal, and Islamia College, Peshawar.

Henry Martyn Clark

Henry Martyn-Clark (Peshawar, c.1857 - Edinburgh, April 1916) was an Afghan-born adopted British medical missionary stationed in Amritsar in the late 19th century.

Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries

A community of Bukharan Jews was also found in the city of Peshawar, where many buildings in the old city feature a Star of David as exterior decor as a sign of the Hebrew origins of its owners.

June 2009 in Pakistan

:An explosion kills 11 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Karkhano Market

The Karkhano market, located in Peshawar, Pakistan, established in 1985 has more than 4,500 shops, owned by Pashtun traders.

Khan Abdul Ali Khan

Khan Abdul Ali Khan (20 August 1922 - 19 February 1997) was a Pakistani educationist, former Principal of Islamia College Peshawar, Fazle Haq College Mardan, Aitchison College, former Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University, Gomal University and former Education Secretary.

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.

KLP road

The KLP road (Karachi-Lahore-Peshawar Road) is the longest highway in Pakistan between Karachi to Lahore to Rawalpindi and Islamabad to Peshawar.

Kristian Berg Harpviken

Between studies, Harpviken has served as agricultural coordinator and director for the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee in Peshawar, Pakistan (1990–92).

M. Qasim Jan

From 1997 to 2000, he worked as Vice Chancellor, University of Peshawar, and July 1, 2001 to December 2003, as founder Vice Chancellor of the Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar.

Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi

Most of these leaders congregated in Peshawar and tried to make contact with the leadership of two already established organization Hezb-e Islami and Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan which they had heard of prior to their arrival because of the their declaration of jihad and clandestine distribution of publications critical of President Daud.

Motasim Billah Mazhabi

According to a profile from the Pajhwok Afghan News Mutasimbillah worked on behalf of Afghans and Afghan expatriates, helping to found a school and a clinic for refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, and a clinic in Paktia Province.

Mujawar Ahmad Ziar

From 1994 to 1996, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Peshawar, Peshawar in Pashto Department.

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

It became the first multi-campus university of Pakistan with campuses in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore.

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.

Orakzai

Due to limited resources and fertile land, many Orakzai have settled in Pakistan's major urban centres such as Hangu, Thall, Parachinar, Tirah, Peshawar, Attock, (Nowshera-Amangarh) Islamabad,Battagram-Allai, Wazirabad, Lahore, Abbottabad and Karachi.

Parachute Training School

Parachute Training School (Pakistan Army), Pakistan Army's Para Training School located at Peshawar

Peshawar Mass Transit

Which will be initially constructed on one red line having length of 18.4 kilometer from Chamkani to Hayatabad area of Peshawar.

Peshawar Valley Field Force

Sir Samuel J. Browne (Overall Command of the Peshawar Valley Field Force)

Pir Piai

However, for major medical problems and specialized care patients are usually referred to hospitals in Nowshera and Peshawar.

Pontia daplidice

In Central Asia, the Bath White ranges from Baluchistan, Peshawar, Chitral, Kashmir and along the Himalayas right across the Central Himalayas up to Darjeeling.

Rahatullah Mohmand

Before playing for Afghanistan, he played cricket for various first-class teams like Habib Bank Limited, North West Frontier Province cricket team, North West Frontier Province Panthers, Peshawar, Peshawar Panthers, Redco Pakistan Ltd and Water and Power Development Authority.

Rafatullah Mohmandi born November 6, 1976 in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province is a Pakistani cricketer.

Relief International UK

Relief International runs a ‘Livestock for Life’ project in five districts of Peshawar, Afghanistan to prevent Zoonotic diseases.

Seminary of the Southwest

SSW has developed a relationship with the Diocese of Peshawar in Pakistan.

Solomon Molcho

When the Jewish adventurer David Reubeni came ostensibly on a political mission from Khaibar (Peshawar) to Portugal, Molcho wished to join him, but was rejected.

Syed Ahmad Barelvi

After Ranjit Singh's death in 1839 that the city of Peshawar came under the influence of Syed Ahmads movement.

Syed Meesaq Rizvi

Rizvi came to the limelight when he earned a bronze medal in the 800 meters event at the National Athletics Championship in Peshawar in 1982.

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).

Transport in Lahore

In addition to the historic Grand Trunk Road (G.T. Road), motorways connecting all major cities (Islamabad, Multan, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, etc.) have been built.

Treaty of Amritsar, 1809

This enabled him to extract tribute from less powerful chieftains, including Jats and other Sikhs, and ultimately to gain control of areas such as Peshawar and Kashmir.

World's biggest cricket bat

Later on, the bat was sent around Pakistan, including the cities of Hyderabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Peshawar.

Zeeshan Anis Siddiqui

According to the Daily Times he was arrested when he went to a Police Station in Peshawar to report the loss of his passport.


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