Chapri, Nowshera


Chapri is a hill station in Pabbi Tehsil of Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Known locally as Safara or Chapara in Pashtoo and called Chapri in Urdu and English, it is one of the far-flung villages of the Nowshera District. It lies roughly from Main GT Road Tehsel Pabbi The People of Chapri are very straightforward peoples. Village Chapri is surrounded by other villages i.e. Dak Ismail Khel, Saleh Khana, Spin Khak, Jaroba and Cherat Cantonment. Chapri is a small village with respect to population in the area. Village Chapri is originated from village Dak Ismail Khel. The people of Chapri are doing their own business, public/private services and jobs/services abroad.

History

British Period

During British rule Cherat & Chapri was important as a hill cantonment and sanitarium for British troops in what was then the Nowshera Tehsil of the Peshawar District of British India.
Cherat was first used as a sanitarium for troops in 1861 and was used during the hot weather as a health station for the British troops who were quartered in the hot and malarious valley of Peshawar. It was declared a cantonment in 1886. The cantonment commands a view of the whole of the Peshawar valley on one side, and on the other of a portion of the Khwarra valley in Peshawar District, and of Kohat District as far as the Indus.
Pre historical origin
People living here are migrants from D. I. Khel 170 years Back initially shami khel the most who lived by serving in Britain Military's cantonment services i.e labour's but dwelling followed completely some where in 1850.
and has a history belonging to kohat Ismail khel Baba buried in kohat the father of ismil khels.

Historical places at Chapri

Among the Historical places are the following;
Omme Hakeem Islamic Dar-ul-Uloom for Female, and Iqra Roza Tul Atfal.

Islamic Dar-ul-Uloom

Aamir Khattak Islamic Dar-ul-Uloom.

[Chapri Library]

Chapri Library.

Education

The youth of Chapri are very active in every field of sport but unfortunately there are few facilities available for their use. However, cricket, football, Gulli dande are sports played in Chapri. the best players of cricket are Basant Group