Badaber
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Badaber
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| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Peshawar District |
| Tehsil | Badhber Tehsil |
| Government | |
| • Type | Tehsil-council |
| • Chairman | Talah Muhammad[1] (JUI-F) |
| Population (1998) | Template:Fix comma category |
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| Time zone | UTC+5 (Pakistan Standard Time) |
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Badaber (Template:Langx, Template:Langx), alternatively spelt Badhber is a village in Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is located approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) south of the city of Peshawar.[3]
Overview
Badaber currently hosts an Afghan refugee camp and formerly was the location of a military prison, established in February 1980.[3] The prison was the site of the Badaber Uprising during the Soviet–Afghan War in 1985, in which captured Soviet and Afghan POWs staged an unsuccessful armed revolt against American CIA- and Pakistani ISI-backed Afghan mujahideen forces in an attempt to escape.[4] Neighbouring villages include: Sheikh Mohammadi, Darra, Bazi Khel, Kaga Wala and Masho Gagar. The village is inhabited by various Pashtun tribes, most notably the Momand, Hoorizai and Khalil.
Significance
Badaber is most famously known for hosting a former United States Air Force–Central Intelligence Agency facility, which was established in 1958 and administered by the American National Security Agency during the Cold War. It was from here that the 1960 Gary Powers U-2 mission was coordinated and launched to spy on the Soviet Union. At the peak of its Western Bloc operations, over 1000 American personnel were stationed here. Today, the facility (PAF Camp Badaber) serves as a non-flying base for the Pakistan Air Force.[5][6][7] In 2023 the Eurasian Times reported that, since 2021, sixty-five U.S. Air Force personnel were stationed at Camp Badaber.[8]
Administrative Area
Badaber is part of Pakistan National Assembly constituency NA-4 (Peshawar-4); some parts of Badaber come under the PF-10 (Peshawar-10) and PF-11 (Peshawar-11) constituencies of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly.[9]
Educational Facilities
Government Degree College Badaber, Peshawar is located in the village.[10]
Notable people
- Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Italy on his third attempt during World War II, later became President of Pakistan
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tehsil Council Badhaber - KPK Local Body Election Result 2021". Geo News. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KP's new LG system: structure, powers, and voting process". SAMAA TV. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Badaber uprising: When Russian POWs took on the Pakistani army and the CIA". rbth.com. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sirrs, Owen L. (July 2016). Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations. Routledge. ISBN 9781317196099. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Badaber: Now and in the Past". Newsweek Pakistan. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."6937th / Peshawar Air Station Alumni Website". 6937th.org. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."USA's Military Empire: A Visual Database". World BEYOND War. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Report, Bureau (24 August 2002). "PESHAWAR: List of NA, PA constituencies in Peshawar". Dawn. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
{{cite web}}:|first1=has generic name (help) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Government Degree College Badaber - Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". admission.hed.gkp.pk. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
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