The Higher Education, Archives and Libraries Department, commonly known as the Higher Education Department or HED, is a department of the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa responsible for record keeping, policymaking, regulation and administration of higher education institutions and libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
[2] Kamran Khan Bangash currently heads the department as Special Assistant to CM KPK.
[2] The Higher Education, Archives and Libraries Department comprises three directorates.
[4] The Directorate of Archives and Libraries, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is attached to the Department of Higher Education, Archives & Libraries Department, responsible for the collection and protection of official records and historical research; restoration of all the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa records; and the administration, development and maintenance of public libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
[5] In August 1946, on the recommendation of the Indian Historical and Record Commission, a separate Directorate of Archives (then the Central Record Office) was set up in the Victoria Memorial Hall, NWFP (now Peshawar Museum, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).