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'''Nowshera''' was a town and cantonment as well as tehsil of [[Peshawar District ]] (later [[Peshawar Division]]). The town was on the route of [[North-Western Railway]] and the Grand Trunk (GT) Road. The population according to the 1901 census of India was 9,518.

Nowshera was close to the Afghan border, twenty miles east of Peshawar. The town was the headquarters of the tahsil of Nowshera – a small tract of low-lying riverain land on both sides of the Kabul river, known as the Khalsa tappa, and of the Khattak pargana which includes the Khwarra-Nilab valley and is separated from it by the Khattak range, which culminates in the Ghaibana Sir (5,136 feet in height) and the sanitarium and [[hill-station ]] of [[Cherat]].