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Peshawar

[ pe-shah-wer ]

noun

  1. a city in N Pakistan, near the Khyber Pass: capital of the former North-West Frontier province.


Peshawar

/ əˈʃɔːə /

noun

  1. a city in N Pakistan, at the E end of the Khyber Pass: one of the oldest cities in Pakistan and capital of the ancient kingdom of Gandhara; university (1950). Pop: 1 255 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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A security official in the provincial capital Peshawar told AFP that the negotiators' helicopter had come under fire as it arrived in the region.

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Dozens of others were injured in the blast, which happened as a popular morning train was about to leave Quetta station in southwestern Pakistan for Peshawar.

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The 31-year-old watched the first Test on TV at home in Peshawar before being recalled to win his ninth cap for Pakistan.

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Instead, it began with a 30-minute karate lesson on her family’s balcony in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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In 1947, when India was partitioned, Singh and several of his Hindu employees fled Peshawar and moved to the Indian capital.

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