Bab-e-Khyber
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The Bab-e-Khyber (; ) is a monument situated at the entrance of the Khyber Pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The gate is located immediately west of Peshawar, with the historic Jamrud Fort lying adjacent to it.
Key facts
- Monument.name
- Bab-e-Khyber
- Monument.image
- 280px
- Monument.caption
- The Khyber Gate, in April 2014
- Monument.location
- Khyber Pass, Jamrud Subdivision, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Monument.type
- Gateway
- Monument.complete
- 1963
- Monument.native_name_lang
- ur
- Monument.builder
- Government of Pakistan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Gate introduction
- Pakistani Banknote
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The Bab-e-Khyber (; ) is a monument situated at the entrance of the Khyber Pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The gate is located immediately west of Peshawar, with the historic Jamrud Fort lying adjacent to it.
==Gate introduction == thumb|left|Plaque commemorating the monument's inauguration in 1963. The gate was inaugurated by field marshal Ayub Khan on 11 June 1963. Khyber Gate is considered to be the most famous post-independence structure in Khyber Agency.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bab-e-Khyber” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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