The Cantonment’s plans to permit parking at the Parsi Cemetery in the Saddar locality in Peshawar was brought to a halt following intervention by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa team from the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), noted a news item carried in the September 2025 issue of What’s On, the newsletter of the Karachi Zarthosti Banu Mandal.
Not a single Parsi now resides in Peshawar, confirmed Dinshaw Avari, chairman of the Karachi Parsi Anjuman Trust Fund. The 2015 edition of the Zoroastrians of Pakistan a&t directory had mentioned that there was only one Parsi residing in Peshawar as compared to seven......