Masho Khel (Mashokhel)
ماشوخیل | |
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Village | |
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Coordinates: 33°54′37″N 71°30′09″E / 33.91028°N 71.50250°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
District | Peshawar District |
Tehsil | Pishtakhara[1] |
Government [4] | |
• Type | Tehsil Local Government, Pishtakhara [2] |
• Tehsil Chairman | Muhammad Haroon Sifat[3] |
• Village Chairmen | Amjid Khan and Qari Waqas Khan |
• Village Secretaries | Malik Rifaqat Khan and Saif Ul Islam |
Population (2023) | |
• Total | 30,492 |
Time zone | UTC+5 (Pakistan Standard Time) |
Postal Code | 24810 |
Masho Khel or Mashokhel (in Pashto and Urdu: ماشوخیل) is a historical village in the capital district Peshawar of province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The village is situated about 13km to the south of Peshawar cantonment. The sufi and philosophical poet of the 17th century, Abdul Hamid Baba, was also from this village.[5] The spoken language in the village is Pashto and the people belong to the Pashtun's tribe Mohmand.