Badaber

Badhaber (Badaber)
Village
Badhaber (Badaber)
Coordinates: 33°57′28″N 71°34′25″E / 33.95778°N 71.57361°E / 33.95778; 71.57361Coordinates: 33°57′28″N 71°34′25″E / 33.95778°N 71.57361°E / 33.95778; 71.57361
Country  Pakistan
Province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
District Peshawar District
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)

Badhaber locally spells as Badabher is a village in Peshawar District of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is located to the south of Peshawar city around 10 kilometers on Kohat road.[1]

Overview

Badhaber (Badabher) is the location of the Badhaber refugee camp and jail, established in February 1980,[1] which was the site of the Badaber Uprising in 1985, where Soviet and Afghan captives staged an armed revolt in an attempt to escape.[2] Some neighbouring villages are Sheikh Mohammadi, Darra, Bazi Khel, Kaga wala. People from tribes Hoorizai, Khalil, Momand live here.

Badaber is famous for former US Air Station (officially Pakistan Air Station), which was built in 1958 from which the 1960 Gary Powers U-2 mission was coordinated on 10 year lease. During the peak of its operations, there were over 1000 US personnel stationed here.[3][4][5]

Administrative area

Badhaber (Badabher) is part of Pakistan National Assembly seat NA-4 (Peshawar-4) while for KP Provincial Assembly some part of Badhaber comes in PF-10 (Peshawar-10) and some area comes in PF-11 (Peshawar-11).[6]

Educational facilities

List of Educational institutes in Badabher are below.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Khan, Ahmed Zeb; Refugees, North-west Frontier Province (Pakistan) Commissionerate of Afghan (1982). "Bada Ber Refugees Camp". Commissionerate of Afghan Refugees N.W.F.P. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Badaber uprising: When Russian POWs took on the Pakistani army and the CIA". www.rbth.com. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  3. ↑ Sirrs, Owen L. (July 2016). "Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations". Routledge. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Badaber: Now and in the Past". Newsweek Pakistan. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "6937th / Peshawar Air Station Alumni Website". www.6937th.org. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Report, Bureau (24 August 2002). "PESHAWAR: List of NA, PA constituencies in Peshawar". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Government Degree College Badhber - Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". www.admission.hed.gkp.pk. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
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