Sunday, August 15, 2010

Charsadda District

CHARSADDA
Charsadda is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Pashtun caste is in majority in Charsadda. Previously Charsadda was a part of Peshawar Metropolitan. Utmanzai is a very famous town of Charsadda. Three rivers flow in Charsadda; River Kabul, River Swat, River Jindi. These three rivers merge into River Indus.
Nearby Important and Famous Cities and Places are Malakand, Mardan, Nowshera and Peshawar, Mohmand Agency of FATA.
Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao Group) are the famous political parties of Charsadda.
Area of CHARSADDA is 996 km².

History of CHARSADDA:
According to Archeologists, Charsadda was present even in 1400 B.C. From 6 B.C. to 2 B.C. Chrsadda was the capital of Gandhara Civilization.  

Location of CHARSADDA:
Charsadda is located at 34°8'43N - 71°43'51E with an altitude of 276 metres (908 feet) and lies 29 kilometers from the provincial capital Peshawar.

Tehsils and Union Councils of District Charsadda:
Charsadda is sub divided into 2 tehsils and 46 Union Councils. Tehsil Charsadda comprises 34 while Tehsil Tangi comprises 12 union councils.

Major crops of CHARSADDA:
Lands of Charsadda are very fertile and agricultural and farmers are also very hard worker.
Major crops of Charsadda are Tobacco, Sugarcane, Sugarbeet, Wheat and Maize.
Major vegetables of Chrsadda are Potato, Tomato, Cabbage, Brinjals, Okra and Spinach.
Major fruits of Charsadda are Apricot, Citrus, Plum, Strawberry and Pears.

Famous Politicians of CHARSADDA:
  • Bacha Khan
  • Wali Khan
  • Asfandyar Wali Khan
  • Aftab Muhammad Khan Sherpao
  • Alamzeb Umarzai Shaheed
  • Hayat Muhammad khan Shaheed

3 comments:

  1. it was good but we have to need to find out the weather, areas, peoples, climate, etc etc..... if you people upload this sort of ducuments.... thnkx
    Regard... Farooq Rahi

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  2. Nice..
    I Love My Homeland


    Muhammad Adnan

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  3. Thanks for this informative post but please note that this is Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao. Please make correction.
    Proof of my claim.
    http://ecp.gov.pk/ERConsolidated2013/SearchFull2013.aspx?constituency=NA&constituencyid=NA-8

    Also please include some other well known names who belong to Charsadda and having names in history.

    Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan known as Dr. Khan Sahib
    1st Chief Minister of West Pakistan

    Khan Abdul Ali Khan (Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1997)
    Educationist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Abdul_Ali_Khan

    Khan Abdul Ghani Khan (Poet)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Abdul_Ghani_Khan

    Major General Akbar Khan
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Khan_(Pakistani_general)

    Barrister Arshad Abdullah
    Ex-Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    Prof Dr Muhammad Azam Azam (Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 1990)
    Pashto Poet: http://www.pukhtoogle.com/most-viewed-sections/news-blogs/371-prof-dr-muhammad-azam-azam-died-at-71.html

    Lieutenant General Imran Ullah Khan
    Ex-Governor of Balochistan province
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Ullah_Khan

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