Pabbi Tehsil

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Pabbi Tehsil
تحصیل پبی
پبى تحصیل‎
Tehsil
Aerial view of Pabbi
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
Province PK-NWFP.svg  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District Nowshera
Government
 • ChairmanGhayur Ali Khan Khattak (ANP)
Population
 (2017) [1]
 •  Tehsil 437,301
 •  Urban
55,255
 •  Rural
382,046
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)

Pabbi is a tehsil located in Nowshera District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] The tehsil is named after the Pabbi town, which is located on the GT Road. [9]

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Overview

Pabbi become tehsil in 2008, when NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) caretaker chief minister Shamsul Mulk declared it a tehsil of Nowshera district. [2] [10] The head quarter of Pabbi tehsil is Pabbi town, which is located on Grand Trunk (GT) road. [11] [9]

Pabbi tehsil covers the jurisdiction from Taro Jabba to Azakhel Payan and Cherat. Pabbi is 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province. [11]

Pabbi is a birthplace of Gul Hassan Khan was a former lieutenant-general and the last Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army. [12]

Pabbi is hub of precast concrete industries located at main GT road in Chowki Mumraiz. Currently, there are 43 precast concrete industries are functional in Pabbi which supply different items to the entire Khyber Paktunkhwa and to some parts of the Punjab.[ citation needed ]

Administration

Pabbi is a part of Pakistan National Assembly seat NA-5 (Nowshera-1) [13] while for KP Provincial Assembly it is part of PK-12 Nowshera-I.[ citation needed ]

The population of Pabbi Tehsil, according to the 2017 census, is 437,301 while according to the 1998 census, it was 246,120. [14]

Towns and Villages

The main towns of Pabbi Tehsil are Pabbi, Akbarpura and Jelozai. The main villages in Pabbi are below.

Education

Pabbi tehsil is home to many excellent educational institutes. Pabbi has a campus of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in Pabbi town [15] while it has a campus of University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar in Jelozai town. [16]

It is also home to 3 degree colleges: Government College Akbarpura, [17] Government Degree College Pabbi [18] and Government Girls Degree College Pabbi. [19]

See also

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References

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  2. 1 2 "NOWSHERA: Pabbi declared as tehsil". DAWN.COM. 17 January 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Newspaper, the (2012-01-24). "PPP plans contact drive in KP". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  4. ↑ "Agreements on CPEC finalised, says KP CM". The Nation. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  5. ↑ Newspaper, the (2014-02-19). "Traders stage protest". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  6. ↑ Shah, Sadia Qasim (2010-08-29). "Floods damaged revenue record as old as of 1870". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  7. ↑ Newspaper, the (2011-05-09). "Restructuring plan for revenue department approved". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  8. ↑ "Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program" (PDF). www.adb.org. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  9. 1 2 "Pervez Khattak meets delegation of shopkeepers and elite of Pabbi about removal of encroachments from GT Road". www.infokhyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  10. ↑ "Inauguration of Tehsil Dar Office in Pabbi, Nowshera by the European Union and UNDP". UNDP in Pakistan. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  11. 1 2 Petraglia, Michael D.; Allchin, Bridget (2007-05-22). The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia: Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   9781402055621.
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  13. ↑ Report, Bureau (9 August 2002). "PESHAWAR: Peshawar gets 4 NA, 11 PA seats". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  14. ↑ "Pakistan Tehsil Wise Census 2017 [PDF]" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  15. ↑ "Pabbi Campus - AWKUM". www.awkum.edu.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  16. ↑ "University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan". www.uetpeshawar.edu.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  17. ↑ "Government College AkbarPura - Online College Admission System, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". www.admission.hed.gkp.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  18. ↑ "Govt Degree College Pabbi - Online College Admission System, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". www.admission.hed.gkp.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  19. ↑ "Government Girls Degree College Pabbi, Nowshera - Online College Admission System, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". www.admission.hed.gkp.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-17.

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