The Risalpur Cantonment itself lies on high ground, some 30 feet above the surrounding area, with the oldest building dating from 1913 or 1914.

[citation needed] During the First World War, the Royal Flying Corps established an airfield and a fighter conversion unit at Risalpur in British India.

31 Squadron RAF was stationed at Risalpur in 1919 and was used to bomb Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan and later conducted operations in FATA against Faqir of Ipi in Waziristan, along with No.

31 Squadron RAF conducted air support in the FATA campaign against Faqir of Ipi in Mir Ali and in Wanna, and in Pakhtunkhwa's district of Bannu.

[citation needed] Trouble flared up on 23 July 1938, when a lashkar launched a daring attack on the town of Bannu, Mir Ali and Wanna, killing up to 200 civilians and damaging a considerable amount of property.

At the height of the campaign, some 60,000 regular and irregular troops were employed by the British in an effort to bring in control an estimated 4,000 hostile tribesmen of FATA.

[citation needed] It is stated that the army of 14th/20th Hussars stayed in Risalpur town of Nowshera Pakhtunkhwa until 1933.

[citation needed] Upon arriving from Egypt, where they had previously been stationed for two years, they disembarked in Karachi and immediately traveled to the town of Risalpur in district Nowshera North West Frontier Province and stayed there until late in 1936 whereupon they were transferred to Lucknow.

[citation needed] The Royal Horse Artillery were also stationed at Risalpur Town of District Nowshera of Pakhtunkhwa.

[citation needed] Flt Lt M Khyber Khan, who later rose to the rank of Air Vice Marshal, and his student, Flight Cadet Akhtar, flew the first training sortie on 22 September 1947.

[citation needed] On 13 April 1948, the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, visited Risalpur Flying Training School and raised its level to that of a college.

[citation needed] On 9 November 2007, unknown miscreants fired three rockets that landed near Risalpur in Nowshera District, without causing any damage to life or property.

The students who come to these institutions usually belong to the privileged class of the two districts, or their parents suffer through tremendous financial hardship in order to send their children to these schools.

Being a prominent area for education its very embarrassing for corrupt politician of District Nowshera to not have a provincial Government High School and College for Girls in Risalpur.