The Karkhano market, located in Peshawar

Peshawar

Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, established in 1985 has more than 4,500 shops, owned by both Pakistani and Afghan Pashtun

Pashtun people

Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

 traders. This market gets a huge amount of contraband

Contraband

The word contraband, reported in English since 1529, from Medieval French contrebande "a smuggling," denotes any item which, relating to its nature, is illegal to be possessed or sold....

 from smugglers and us army. The Market sells anything from electronics to clothing including weapons, drones, rader system and short rang misals. The rising price of oil has seen a discount price of smuggled petrol in the market.

• Main markets of karkhano
• Shah shopping Centre
• G.B Market
• Shaheen Market
• Ameen Market
• Sitara Market
• Al-Haj Market