The name Parwan is also attributed to a town, the exact location of which is now unknown, that supposedly existed during prehistory, in the nearby Hindu Kush mountains.

[citation needed] Such incidents in Parwan mostly involved grenade attacks on the residences of government officials or roadside bombs.

The kingdom stretched from the Hindu Kush in the north to Bamiyan and Kandahar in the south and west, out as far as the modern Jalalabad District in the east.

The famous Moroccan traveler and scholar, Ibn Battuta, visiting the area in 1333 write:We halted next at a place called Banj Hir (Panjshir), which means "Five Mountains," where there was once a fine and populous city built on a great river with blue water like the sea.

This is the town of the famous warrior-sultan Mahmud ibn Sabuktagin, one of the greatest of rulers, who made frequent raids into India and captured cities and fortresses there.

A Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) led by South Korea helped the locals with development activities in the province until 2014.

[10] In mid-February 2011, five rocket-propelled grenades hit the newly built South Korean military base housing the provincial reconstruction team and civilian aid workers.

No one was injured in the attack, but it came hours after a visit by South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, raising suspicions of Taliban involvement.

[citation needed] A large portion of Parwan's economy relies on remittances from the Afghan diaspora living abroad.

[citation needed] In July 2012, the Taliban executed a married woman in front of a large crowd after she was found guilty of adultery.

8 percent of the population lived below the national poverty line, the second lowest figure in Afghanistan behind only Logar Province.

During the summer, Kuchi migrate to Parwan province from Laghman, Kapisa, Baghlan and to a lesser extent from Kabul, Nangarhar and Kunar.