Pabbi

Pabbi (Pashto: پببے pronounce ; Urdu: پببی pronounce ) is a large town in Pabbi Tehsil of Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1][2] It is located on both sides of the Grand Trunk (GT) around 20-km from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province.[3]

For the Indian actress, see Sapna Pabbi.
Pabbi
Town
Pabbi
Location within Pakistan
Pabbi
Pabbi (Pakistan)
Coordinates: 34°00′36″N 71°47′51″E
CountryPakistan
ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictNowshera
Elevation
299 m (981 ft)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)

Overview

Pabbi town is the capital and tehsil headquarters of Pabbi tehsil in Nowshera District. It has a train station called Pabbi station[4] and is a market town. Peshawar City is located to the west around 20-km away while Nowshera City is located to the east around 17-km away.[5]

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:

  • Amir Habib was student Abdul wali khan university mardan serving volunteerly at awkum students council .Member of young leaders parliments.
  • Gul Hassan Khan was a former lieutenant-general and the last Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army.[6]
  • Mian Iftikhat Hussain, Provincial Ex-Minister for information
  • Sareer Ahmad Khan, ex minister excise and taxation
  • Sher Zaman Taizi was a Pashtun writer, poet, intellectual, and journalist from Pakistan
  • Waqar Ahmad Khudrizi, entrepreneur.

Education

Pabbi is home to many excellent educational institutes. It hosts a campus of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan.[7]

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[8] and Government Girls Degree College Pabbi.[9]

See also

References
  1. "In-Depth - The River Story - DAWN.COM". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  2. "SC Commission visits flood-hit areas". The Nation. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  3. "Pervez Khattak meets delegation of shopkeepers and elite of Pabbi about removal of encroachments from GT Road". www.infokhyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  4. 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.
  5. "More rains bring more misery to survivors". DAWN.COM. 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  6. "Remembering Lt Gen Gul Hasan". www.defencejournal.com. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  7. "Pabbi Campus - AWKUM". www.awkum.edu.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  8. "Govt Degree College Pabbi - Online College Admission System, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". www.admission.hed.gkp.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  9. "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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