Badaber

Badaber (Pashto: بدبیر‎, Urdu: بادبیر‎), alternatively spelt Badhber (Pashto: بډبر‎, Urdu: بڈھبر‎), is a village in Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is located approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) south of the city of Peshawar.[1]

Badaber

بدبیر
Village
Badaber
Badaber
Coordinates: 33°57′28″N 71°34′25″E
Country Pakistan
ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictPeshawar District
Time zoneUTC+5 (Pakistan Standard Time)

Overview

Badaber currently hosts a refugee camp and formerly was the location of a military prison, established in February 1980.[1] 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.[2] Neighbouring villages include: Sheikh Mohammadi, Darra, Bazi Khel, and Kaga Wala. 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 with the purpose of spying on the Soviet Union. During the peak of its Western Bloc operations, there were over 1000 American personnel stationed here. Today, the facility (PAF Camp Badaber) serves as a non-flying base for the Pakistan Air Force.[3][4][5]

Administrative Area

Badaber is part of Pakistan National Assembly seat NA-4 (Peshawar-4); some parts of Badaber come under PF-10 (Peshawar-10) and PF-11 (Peshawar-11) within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly.[6]

Educational Facilities

The village is home to the Government Degree College Badaber Peshawar.[7]

See also

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Badaber uprising: When Russian POWs took on the Pakistani army and the CIA". www.rbth.com. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  3. Sirrs, Owen L. (July 2016). Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations. Routledge. ISBN 9781317196099. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  4. "Badaber: Now and in the Past". Newsweek Pakistan. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  5. "6937th / Peshawar Air Station Alumni Website". www.6937th.org. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  6. Report, Bureau (24 August 2002). "PESHAWAR: List of NA, PA constituencies in Peshawar". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  7. "Government Degree College Badaber - Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". www.admission.hed.gkp.pk. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
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