city in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass

Peshāwar (Pashto: پښور; Urdu: پشاور) literally means City on the Frontier in Persian and is known as Pakhawar in Pashto. It is the provincial capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province as well as the capital of Federally Administered Tribal Areas.See http://www.peshawarcity.com/peshawar.php Located on the edge of the Khyber Pass, Peshawar is the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pakistani frontier and, particularly, of the Pashtuns. In ancient times the city was known as Purushapura when it was officially founded by the Kushans.