Over the other side of Khyber Bazaar, the new modern Peshawar, the Cantonment area is quite different from the Old City, with wide streets, parks and gardens and trees painted white by Armed services. Like all cantonments in the subcontinent, it was originally constructed by the administration.

The Peshawar "Saddar" (Cantonment) is a spaciously laid out neat and clean township with avenues of tall old trees, broad tarred roads, single storey houses with large lawns, and a pervading scent of rare shrubs and flowers that is Peshawar's own. In the Sadder is the splendid Governor's House, modern hotels, the old missionary Edwards College, the richly stocked Museum, a fine shopping area and right in the middle is the biggest Trade Center of Pakistan i.e. Deans Trade Center.

The heart of the Sadder is the Khalid bin Walid (Company) Bagh which is an old Mughal Garden. Its huge ancient trees and gorgeous big roses are a sight to remember. Two other splendid old gardens are the Shahi Bagh in the northeast and the Wazir Bagh in the south-east, all of which give the character of a garden city to Peshawar.

The Peshawar of the hoary past is the old city, the Peshawar of the British period (1849-1947) is the Cantonment but the Peshawar of independent Pakistan is the vast extension of the city west and east.