 Abbottabad, named after the British administrator James Abbott in the year 1853, is a city located in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan.The city is situated in the Orash Valley, 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of the capital Islamabad, and 150 kilometres (93 miles) east of Peshawar, at an altitude of 1,260 metres (4,134 ft) and is the capital of the Abbottabad District.It borders Azad Kashmir to the east.