Peshawar Division

Peshawar Division was an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts of Hazara and Kohat, when they both became divisions themselves. Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan (and its tehsils) also became a division itself.

Map of Peshawar Division

Districts

Peshawar Division contained the following districts:

Tehsils in Peshawar District 2019

The ancient name of Peshawar is Purushapur. Peshawar Division was originally a district of the North-West Frontier Province of British India.[1] The district was administratively subdivided into five tehsils;[2]

  • Peshawar
  • Charsadda
  • Mardan
  • Swabi
  • Nowshera

See also

References
  1. Peshawār District - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 20, p. 111.
  2. Peshawār District - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 20, p. 117.


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