Sethi Town (Haji Camp)
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Sethi Town is a neighborhood in Haji Camp, Peshawar
, Pakistan
located in east of Historic Peshawar
city near famous "HajiCamp Bus Terminal" of Peshawar
.
The area is worth of Strategic Importance because of joining of three main routes GT Road,Ring Road,Peshawar and Motorways of Pakistan
.
Sethi Town is also considered as the first Union Council of Pakistan because it is represented in legislative assembly as UC1,PK1,NA1.
There are several ethnic groups in Sethi Town (Haji Camp) including Pakhtuns, Hindkowans
& Afghan refugees specially Hazaras & Tajiks
. More than 99% Population of Sethi Town is Muslim.
"Sethi Town" attracted news attention on 26 July 2009 when the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) Sufi Muhammad
was arrested from Sethi Town.
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
located in east of Historic Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
city near famous "HajiCamp Bus Terminal" of Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
.
The area is worth of Strategic Importance because of joining of three main routes GT Road,Ring Road,Peshawar and Motorways of Pakistan
Motorways of Pakistan
The Motorways of Pakistan are the nationally coordinated high-speed, limited-access or controlled-access highways in Pakistan, and maintained and operated by the National Highway Authority.-Features:...
.
Sethi Town is also considered as the first Union Council of Pakistan because it is represented in legislative assembly as UC1,PK1,NA1.
There are several ethnic groups in Sethi Town (Haji Camp) including Pakhtuns, Hindkowans
Hindkowans
Hindkowans or known locally as "Chachi's" are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces of Pakistan...
& Afghan refugees specially Hazaras & Tajiks
Tajiks
Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of Persian-speaking people of Iranic origin, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan...
. More than 99% Population of Sethi Town is Muslim.
"Sethi Town" attracted news attention on 26 July 2009 when the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) Sufi Muhammad
Sufi Muhammad
Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan, born in Dir, is the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi , a Pakistani militant organisation with Wahabi and Deobandi learnings vying for implementation of Sharia in Pakistan. It operates mainly in the Dir, Swat, and Malakand districts of...
was arrested from Sethi Town.