Pabbi ( ps, پببے ; ur, ) is a large town in
Pabbi Tehsil of
Nowshera District
Nowshera District ( ps, نوښار ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city.
Overview and history
Nowshera was a tehsil (sub d ...
of
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
. It is located on both sides of the Grand Trunk (GT) around 20-km from
Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
, the capital of
Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province.
Overview
Pabbi town is the capital and tehsil headquarters of
Pabbi tehsil in
Nowshera District
Nowshera District ( ps, نوښار ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city.
Overview and history
Nowshera was a tehsil (sub d ...
. It has a train station called
Pabbi station and is a
market town
A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...
.
Peshawar City is located to the west around 20-km away while
Nowshera City is located to the east around 17-km away.
Pabbi is a hub of precast concrete industries located at the main GT road in Chowki Mumraiz. Currently, there are 43 precast concrete industries that are functional in Pabbi which supply different items to the entire Khyber Paktunkhwa and to some parts of the Punjab.
Famous People
Pabbi is/was a birthplace of several famous people:
*
Gul Hassan Khan was a former lieutenant-general and the last Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army.
*Mian Iftikhat Hussain, Provincial Ex-Minister for information
*Sareer Ahmad Khan, ex minister excise and taxation
*Sher Zaman Taizi was a
Pashtun
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...
writer, poet, intellectual, and journalist from
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
*Waqar Ahmad Khudrizi, entrepreneur.
Education
Pabbi is home to many excellent educational institutes. It hosts a campus of the
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
The Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) ( ur, ) is a public university located in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Established in April 2009, the university is named after Abdul Wali Khan, a prominent personality of Pashtunkhwa a ...
.
It has a campus of the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar in Jelozai town while it also has a campus of Peshawar University for its botany studies and research at botanical garden Azakhel.
It is also home to 2 degree colleges: Government Degree College Pabbi and Government Girls Degree College Pabbi.
See also
*
Pabbi Tehsil
*
Nowshera District
Nowshera District ( ps, نوښار ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city.
Overview and history
Nowshera was a tehsil (sub d ...
References
{{Nowshera-Union-Councils
Populated places in Nowshera District