(1998 est. pop. 998,000). Peshawar is an ancient city in Pakistan. It was established more than two thousand years ago by the Kushan kings of Gandhara. Since that time, it has changed names as often as it has rulers. Once known as the Lotus Land, City...

Peshāwar (help·info) (Pashto: پښور; Urdu: پشاور) is the capital of the North-West Frontier Province[1] and the administrative centre for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.[2] "Peshawar" literally means High Fort in...

The youngsters in the garden whooped up a game of musical chairs, squealing in an international language as they raced for seats when the music stopped. It was a birthday party for the child of one of the hundreds of western aid workers...

WHAT WERE we doing here? The man who carved Robert Adams' gravestone thought he knew. "Staff Corps and Deputy Commissioner in the Punjab, called to Peshawar as an officer of rare capacity for a frontier," the flaking stonework tells me. "Wise, just and courageous,...