Qissa Khwani Bazaar
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The Kissa Khwani Bazaar (Pashto:کيسه خوانې بازار, Urdu: قصه خواني بازار) (or 'Market of Story-tellers') is a bazaar of Peshawar, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then N.-W.F.) province Gazetteer,[1] traveller Lowell Thomas[2] and Peshawar's British commissioner Herbert Edwardes[3] called it "the Piccadilly of Central Asia".
It was the site of the 1930 massacre, when British soldiers fired upon a crowd of unarmed protesters.
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- ^ Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) (1931). Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then N.-W.F.) Province Gazetteers. http://books.google.com/books?lr=&client=opera&hl=es&id=pY21AAAAIAAJ&dq=Piccadilly+of+Central+Asia&q=Piccadilly&pgis=1#search_anchor.
- ^ Of Piccadilly and Qissa Khwani bazaar (April 2003) Syed Amjad Hussain
- ^ Victoria Schofield (2003). Tauris Parke Paperbacks. ed. Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia (illustrated ed.). p. 46. ISBN 1860648959. http://books.google.com/books?id=z3KrNWqBVisC&pg=PA46&dq=Piccadilly+of+Central+Asia&client=opera&hl=es.
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