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Peshawar [pe-shah-wer] EXAMPLES| noun a city in N Pakistan, near the Khyber Pass: capital of the former North-West Frontier province. Liberaldictionary.com
North-West Frontier Province [nawrth-west, -west] noun a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for peshawar Contemporary Examples of peshawar
Uzbeks were responsible for a recent attack on Karachi airport, he said, and “it looks like of the attack in Peshawar is same.”
Pakistani School Killers Want to Strike the U.S.
Sami Yousafzai, Christopher Dickey
December 17, 2014
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Half a dozen men sit on the floor in a grimy rented storefront in the crowded Khyber Bazaar.
Obama’s Deadly Informants: The Drone Spotters of Pakistan
Umar Farooq, Syed Fakhar Kakakhel
November 12, 2014
Dostum fled the country to Pakistan, where he lived in exile in Peshawar.
The Warlord Who Defines Afghanistan: An Excerpt From Bruce Riedel’s ’What We Won’
Bruce Riedel
July 27, 2014
On May 1, 1960, a U-2 spy plane operated by the CIA took off from an airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Russia’s Missiles Stung the World Long Before MH17
Clive Irving
July 20, 2014
In the interview Tuesday with Libyan television, Tantoush said his work in Peshawar was entirely humanitarian.
Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya
Eli Lake
April 23, 2014
Historical Examples of peshawar
We can reach Peshawar by rail in twelve hours and Quetta in fifteen.
The Coming Conquest of England
August Niemann
Suddhoo’s son at Peshawar was attacked by pleurisy, and old Suddhoo was troubled.
Various
He got a friend in Peshawar to telegraph daily accounts of the son’s health.
Various
Peshawar is a very delightful place, or so at least it appeared to me.
Thomas Carson
Both the forces were due to join the Peshawar column, on or about the 14th.
G. A. Henty
British Dictionary definitions for peshawar Peshawar noun 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) North-West Frontier Province noun a province in N Pakistan between Afghanistan and Jammu and Kashmir: part of British India from 1901 until 1947; of strategic importance, esp for the Khyber Pass. Capital: Peshawar. Pop: 20 170 000 (2003 est). Area: 74 522 sq km (28 773 sq miles) 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
