Qissa Khwani Bazaar

The Qissa Khwani or Kissa Khwani Bazaar (Pashto: قصه خوانۍ بازار, Urdu: قصہ خوانی بازار; "Story-tellers market) is a bazaar in Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

On 23 April 1930, British Indian Army troops opened fire on a crowd of anti-colonial protestors at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar, killing nearly 400 people.

[4] The colonial authorities ultimately acknowledged that the British Indian Army had killed 179 people in the massacre, which triggered protests across India and catapulted the newly formed Khudai Khidmatgar movement into prominence.

[6] The market was again targeted by militants in 2013, who used a 220 kg bomb to carry out an attack that killed over 40 people,[7] and damaged a nearby mosque as well as set fire to several historic wooden buildings.

Indian film actor Dilip Kumar was born in Qissa Khwani Bazaar on or about 11 December 1922.