Peshawar (Urdu: پشاور; Pashto: پښور) literally means City on the Frontier in Persian and is known as Pekhawar in Pashto. It is the provincial capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province as well as the capital of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The "official" population is said to be around 3,000,000 however, locals say the number is beyond that saying as much as 5 to 6 million, due to the huge influx of Afghan refugees during the Soviet invasion, and ... (more)