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Mardan

For other articles with the same name, see Mardan (disambiguation).

Mardan
مردان
City
Mardan's Guides Memorial was built in 1892 to honour fallen soldiers who fought during the 1879 Siege of the British Residency in Kabul
Mardan's Guides Memorial was built in 1892 to honour fallen soldiers who fought during the 1879 Siege of the British Residency in Kabul
Mardan is located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mardan
Mardan
Location within Pakistan
Mardan is located in Pakistan
Mardan
Mardan
Mardan (Pakistan)
Coordinates: 34°12′4.4″N 72°01′33″E / 34.201222°N 72.02583°E / 34.201222; 72.02583
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictMardan
TehsilMardan
Government
[4]
 • TypeMayor-council
 • BodyDistrict Government
 • MayorHamayatullah Mayar[1] (ANP)
 • CommissionerSyed Abdul Jabar Shah[2]
 • Deputy CommissionerHabibullah Arif[3]
 • Deputy Inspector General of PoliceYaseen Khalil[2]
Elevation
310 m (1,020 ft)
Population
 (2017)[5]
 • City404,436
 • Rank23rd, Pakistan
2nd, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
 Mardan Municipal Committee: 391,733
Mardan Cantonment: 6,871
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Calling code+92 937
Websitemardan.kp.gov.pk

Mardān (Pashto and Urdu: مردان; Urdu ; Pashto: ) is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.[6] Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Mardan is the second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (after Peshawar).[7][8] It is a fast-growing city that experienced a population boom in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Around 1800 BCE, the area around Mardan was part of the homeland of the Gandhara grave culture. Rock edicts of the ancient Indian King Ashoka in the nearby Shahbaz Garhi, written in the right-to-left Kharosthi script, date from the Mauryan period (mid-200s BCE) and represent the earliest irrefutable evidence of writing in South Asia.[9] The nearby Takht-i-Bahi which has remains of an ancient Buddhist monastery was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.[10]

  1. ^ "Mardan City Council - KPK Local Body Election Result 2021". Geo News. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Chief secy reviews progress on Mardan uplift projects". Dawn (newspaper). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Spurious drugs seized in Mardan". The News International (newspaper). 15 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  4. ^ "District Mardan". Department of Local Government, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Population and Household Detail From Block to District Level Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Mardan District)" (PDF). pbs.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 3 January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  6. ^ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mardan – Government of Pakistan
  7. ^ "Pakistan City & Town Population List". Tageo.com website. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  8. ^ Rammohan, E. N. (8 February 2010). The Implacable Taliban, Repeating History in Afghanistan. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. ISBN 9789380177182.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference unesco was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Khaliq, Fazal (1 June 2015). "Takht-i-Bhai: A Buddhist monastery in Mardan". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

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