Cherat (Pashto: چېراټ) is a hill station dating from the 1860s that is located immediately above the villages of Chapri,Bakhti, Saleh Khana, Kotli Kalan and Dak Ismail Khel in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

The station, which has a good water supply, was throughout the summer the headquarters of the Peshawar Division command, and of one of the two British regiments stationed at Peshawar - a detachment of the other British regiment was also sent here.

[2] There were 376 inhabitants according to the March 1901 Census, but in the hot season the garrison sometimes numbered 1,000 men.

[3] The fort is used as a base by the Special Service Group and is used for training of the army.

As part of joint military events with several nations, Cherat has also hosted an Improving Command Course in 2010.