Peshawar Division


Peshawar Division was an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts of Hazara and Kohat, when they both became divisions themselves. Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan also became a division itself.
At abolition it contained the following districts:
The ancient name of Peshawar is Purushapur. Peshawar Division was originally a district of the North-West Frontier Province of British India. The district was administratively subdivided into five tehsils;