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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cricket Association
Khyber (خیبر درہ) may refer to: Places * Khyber Pass, a mountain pass that links Afghanistan and Pakistan * Khyber District, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province of Pakistan * Khaybar, an oasis in Saudi Arabia * Khyber Rock, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa People *Khyber Shah, Pakistani boxer * Mir Akbar Khyber, Afghan leftist Other uses * Khyber train safari a tourist train in Pakistan * Khyber Pass Railway a railway line in Pakistan *Khyber Pass Economic Corridor an infrastructure and economic corridor between Afghanistan and Pakistan *Khyber, a character from '' Ben 10: Omniverse'' * The Khyber, a multipurpose arts centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ** Khyber Arts Society, which operates the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art at the above arts centre * ''Khyber Mail'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper that used to be published from Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan * Khyber Mail (passenger train), a pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Pass
The Khyber Pass (خیبر درہ) is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. It connects the town of Landi Kotal to the Valley of Peshawar at Jamrud by traversing part of the White Mountains, Afghanistan, White Mountains. Since it was part of the ancient Silk Road, it has been a vital trade route between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent and a Military strategy, strategic military choke point for various states that controlled it. Following Asian Highway 1 (AH1), the summit of the pass at Landi Kotal is inside Pakistan, descending to Jamrud, about from the Afghan border. The inhabitants of the area are predominantly from the Afridi and Shinwari (Pashtun tribe), Shinwari tribes of Pashtuns. Geography The Khyber Pass is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan (Nangarhar Province). Following Asian Highway 1 (AH1), the summit of the pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Khyber
The Khyber Building is a registered Historical Property owned by the Halifax Regional Municipality on Barrington Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Until 2014, it was operated as an artist-run centre, public art gallery and social space by Khyber Arts Society (The Khyber Centre for the Arts), which is now located at 1880 Hollis St. History 1588 Barrington Street, was originally erected as The Church of England Institute in 1888. It was designed by architect Henry Busch in the Victorian style with Gothic Revival features. The building was commissioned by Bishop Hibbert Binney. Other buildings designed by Busch in Halifax include the Halifax Academy and the Halifax Public Gardens Bandstand. In 1994, the City of Halifax put out an RFP (Request for Proposal) for the building, but only received a few offers. Its current tenants helped form the Arts Centre Project Society in order to secure the building as an arts centre. The Arts Centre Project Society was made up: the No Money Down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyber (scheduler)
Input/output (I/O) scheduling is the method that computer operating systems use to decide in which order Input/output, I/O operations will be submitted to Volume (computing), storage volumes. I/O scheduling is sometimes called disk scheduling. Purpose I/O scheduling usually has to work with hard disk drives that have long Access Time, access times for requests placed far away from the current position of the disk head (this operation is called a seek). To minimize the effect this has on system performance, most I/O schedulers implement a variant of the elevator algorithm that reorders the incoming randomly ordered requests so the associated data would be accessed with minimal arm/head movement. I/O schedulers can have many purposes depending on the goals; common purposes include the following * To minimize time wasted by hard disk seeks * To prioritize a certain process (computing), processes' I/O requests * To give a share of the disk bandwidth to each running process * To g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up The Khyber
''More'' is the third studio album and first soundtrack album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 in the United States by Tower Records. The soundtrack is for the film of the same name, which was primarily filmed on location on Ibiza and was the directorial debut of Barbet Schroeder. It was the band's first album without former leader Syd Barrett. The album was a top ten hit in the UK, but received mixed reviews. Several songs became live favourites over the following years. Like other Pink Floyd albums, it has been reissued on CD with additional material and outtakes. Background Pink Floyd recorded several pieces of film music before this album. In December 1967, they were featured on the BBC's ''Tomorrow's World'', playing along to a light show, and the following year recorded some instrumental music for the film '' The Committee''. The film ''More'' featured a young hitchhiker in Ibiza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carry On Up The Khyber
''Carry On Up the Khyber'' is a 1968 British comedy film, the 16th in the series of 31 ''Carry On'' films (1958–1992). It stars ''Carry On'' regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth. It is the second of two Carry On film appearances by Wanda Ventham; and Roy Castle makes his only ''Carry On'' appearance, in the romantic male lead part usually played by Jim Dale. Angela Douglas makes her fourth and final appearance in the series. Terry Scott returned to the series after his minor role in the first film of the series, ''Carry On Sergeant'' a decade earlier. The film is, in part, a spoof of Kiplingesque movies and television series about life in the British Raj, both contemporary and from earlier, Hollywood, periods. The title is a play on words in the risqué Carry On tradition, with "Khyber" (short for "Khyber Pass") being rhyming slang for "arse". Plot Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond (Sid James) is Queen Victoria's G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Afghan Airlines
Khyber Afghan Airlines was a cargo airline based in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, with its base at Jalalabad Airport , nativename-r = , image = Nangarhar Airport.jpg , caption = View of the airport's control tower in 2008 , IATA = JAA , ICAO = OAJL , pushpin_map = Afghanistan , pushpi ....ch-aviation.com - Khyber Afghan Airlines retrieved 30 September 2018 As of September 2018, it suspended all operations with plans to restart them. References Defunct airlines of Afghanistan {{Afghanistan-airline-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Medical College
Khyber Medical College ( ur, , abbreviated as KMC) was established in 1954, is a public sector medical college located in Peshawar. Khyber Medical College is the oldest medical college of the province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is considered as one of the most prestigious medical colleges of Pakistan. The entire process of admissions to all the public sector medical and dental colleges of the province and FATA is managed by the Directorate of Admission in Khyber Medical College. Beside undergraduate medical education, the college offers teaching and research facilities to the postgraduate students, i.e., M. Phil, in all basic Medical Sciences, FCPS in Clinical as well as basic medical sciences, and minor diplomas in many specialties It is one of the several medical schools affiliated with Khyber Medical University and is recognized by PMDC. History Khyber Medical College, which is situated at the doorstep of university of Peshawar, occupies in the site of ancient Buddhist academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Mail (passenger Train)
Khyber Mail ( ur, ) is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Peshawar. The trip takes approximately 32 hours, to cover a published distance of , traveling along the entire stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line. The train named after the famous Khyber Pass, Author: Owais Mughal. Retrieved on 18 June 2013 located in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Khyber Mail is one of Pakistan's oldest and most prestigious passenger trains that has been continuously running since 12 February 1920. The Train has completed its 100 years of Service on February 12, 2020. The Train departs Karachi Cantonment railway station, Karachi Cantonment at 22.00 hrs every night, Lahore Junction railway station, Lahore Junction arrival next night 19.45 hrs & departure 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Mail (newspaper)
''Khyber Mail'' was a daily newspaper published from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The news service was discontinued in 1989, and the company provided print services. However it has now restarted in late 2020 and is undergoing test prints at the moment. Sheikh Sanaullah was the founder editor of ''Khyber Mail'', the first English newspaper of the then NWFP that he started from Peshawar in 1932. He was an eminent journalist who began his career as a sub-editor in daily 'Muslim Outlook", Lahore. He worked as a special correspondent of several Indian and foreign newspapers. He was an experienced newsman and was acknowledged far and wide when he successfully reported for the daily "Pioneer" Lucknow, the proceedings of the Court Martial of the Indian officers and jawans who had refused to fire on the unarmed people at the Qissa Khwani Bazar of Peshawar in 1930. The newspaper survived till 1989, edited, published and managed by his sons Shiekh Zakaullah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Arts Society
Khyber Arts Society is a not-for profit charitable organization that operates the Khyber Centre for the Arts, an artist-run centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The name “Khyber” commemorates the café owned and operated by the Nasr family in the old "The Khyber Building" at 1588 Barrington St., named for the Khyber Pass, a mountain pass that connects Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mandate The Khyber's mandate is to present contemporary visual art, which exists in a wide variety of disciplines. We challenge traditional gallery conventions, encourage public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through responsive and relevant programming. The Khyber works to prioritize, centre and promote the presentation of work by emerging local, national and/or international artists. Additionally, we aim to recognize and disrupt systemic forms of oppression, which include but are not limited to: racism, white supremacy, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism/transmisogyny, tokenism, ableism, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omniverse
Omniverse may refer to: * '' Omniverse .:. Frequency'', a 2002 album by Rake * ''Omniverse'', a 1970s-era fanzine produced by Mark Gruenwald * '' Ben 10: Omniverse'', a series part of the Ben 10 franchise * Multiverse, the collection of all universes ** Multiverse (DC Comics) ** Multiverse (Marvel Comics) Within Marvel Comics, most tales take place within the fictional Marvel Universe, which in turn is part of a larger multiverse. Starting with issues of ''Captain Britain'', the main continuity in which most Marvel storylines take place was desi ... See also * Megaverse (other) * Metaverse (other) * Multiverse (other) * Universe (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber District
Khyber District ( ps, خېبر ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Until 2018, it was an agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas; with the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it became a district. It ranges from the Tirah valley down to Peshawar. It borders Nangarhar Province to the west, Orakzai District to the south, Kurram District to south west, Peshawar to the east and Mohmand District to the north. The major clans in District Khyber are Shinwari, Afridi, Mulagori and Shalmani. The majority of Afridis live in Khyber Agency, Dara Adam Khel, Kohat and Peshawar. All Afridi clans have their own areas in the Tirah Valley, and most of them extend down into the Khyber Pass over which they have always exercised the right of toll. The Malikdin Khel live in the centre of the Tirah and hold Bagh, the traditional meeting place of Afridi '' jirgas'' or assemblies. The Aka Khel are scattered in the hills s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
