Peshawar (Pashto: پېښور‎ About this sound elocution (help·info); Urdu: پشاور‬‎ About this sound articulation (help·info); Hindko: پشور‎) is the capital of the Pakistani territory of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[5] It additionally fills in as the regulatory focus and monetary center for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.[6]

Arranged in an expansive valley close to the eastern end of the noteworthy Khyber Pass, near the outskirt with Afghanistan, Peshawar's written history goes back to no less than 539 BCE, making it the most seasoned city in Pakistan and one of the most seasoned in South Asia.[7] Peshawar was the capital of the antiquated Kushan Empire, and was home to what may have been the tallest working in the old world, the Kanishka stupa.[8] Peshawar was then sacked by the White Huns, previously the entry of Muslim realms. The city was a vital exchanging focus amid the Mughal time before filling in as the winter capital of the Afghan Durrani Empire from 1757 until the