Charsadda
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 Pakistan
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| Province : | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||
| Coordinates : |
34 ° 9 ' N , 71 ° 44' E
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| Residents : | 97,000 (2006) | ||
| Time zone : |
PST ( UTC + 5 )
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Charsadda is a city in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with about 97,000 inhabitants (2006 estimate). It is located in the Peshawar plain , 29 km northeast of the provincial capital Peshawar on the Swat River , which flows into Kabul here and surrounds the city in the west. It is the eponymous administrative seat of the Charsadda district .
On the north and west edge of the city are ruins of Pushkalavati ( lotus city ), a capital of the former Gandhara empire from around the 6th century BC. BC to the 2nd century AD
On April 28, 2007, a suicide attack at a political event in Charsadda with Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao left 28 dead and around 50 injured. On December 21 of the same year, another attack occurred in a mosque, in which at least 50 people were killed. Another attack took place on February 9, 2008, with at least 14 dead and 24 injured. The 2016 attack on Charsadda University affected the university, which was founded in 2012.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gulzar Alam (born 1954), singer
- Abdul Wali Khan (1917–2006), politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC article on the situation in Charsadda in April-May 2007
- ↑ www.afp.com - At least 54 dead in suicide attack in Pakistan ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.afp.com - Number of fatalities in attack in Pakistan rises to 25 ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )