Peshawar Division was an administrative division

Divisions of Pakistan

Divisions are the third tier of government in Pakistan, between the provinces and districts. They were abolished in 2000 by the government of former president Pervez Musharraf to make way for local governance via district governments...

 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of 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...

 until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan

Dera Ismail Khan Division

Dera Ismail Khan Division was an administrative division of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government....

 and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts

Districts of Pakistan

The Districts of Pakistan are the second order administrative divisions of Pakistan. Districts were the third order of administrative divisions, below provinces and "divisions", until the reforms of August 2000, when "divisions" were abolished...

 of Hazara

Hazara District

Hazara District was a district of Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan until 1976.The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the district as follows..-Khatris and Khokhran:...

 and Kohat

Kohat Division

Kohat Division was an administrative division of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. At independence in 1947 Kohat was a district of Peshawar Division, however in 1976 it became a separate division and contained the...

, when they both became divisions themselves.

History

Peshawar Division was originally a district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) of British India

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

. The district was administratively subdivided into five tehsil

Tehsil

A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

s;

• Peshawar
• Charsadda
• Mardan
• Swabi
• Nowshera

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the tehsil of Peshawar became the new district of Peshawar. At that time the old district became a division.