Government Degree College Badaber (Badhber) Peshawar is a public sector degree college located in Badaber , Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan .
5-667: Government Degree College Badaber (Badhber) Peshawar was established in 1987 at Badaber near Masho Gagar around 13 km south of Peshawar . The college started initially as Intermediate level college but was updated to Degree college in 1998. The college offers courses at Intermediate level in both Science & Arts group and affiliated with Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Peshawar . The college also offers BA and BSc course in Biological Sciences , Physical Sciences and Social Sciences/Humanities and affiliated with University of Peshawar . The college currently has
10-640: The Momand , Hoorizai and Khalil . 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
15-570: The following departments and faculties. Badaber Badaber ( Pashto : بڈھ بیر , Urdu : بڈھ بیر ), alternatively spelt Badhber is a village in Peshawar District , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan . It is located approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) south of the city of Peshawar . Badaber currently hosts a refugee camp and formerly was the location of a military prison , established in February 1980. The prison
20-605: 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 . In 2023 the Eurasian Times reported that, since 2021, sixty-five U.S. Air Force personnel were stationed at Camp Badaber. 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
25-531: 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. Neighbouring villages include: Sheikh Mohammadi, Darra, Bazi Khel, and Kaga Wala. The village is inhabited by various Pashtun tribes, most notably
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