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At the center of Peshawar’s old walled city, on a small street called Mohalla Sethian, situated a veritable treasure trove: seven stately mansions – structural masterpieces of the 18th and 19th centuries – in a state of decay and disrepair. The Mohalla was once an enclave of almost three dozen Havelian belonging to the Sethi’s – one of the most prominent merchant families of Peshawar. They migrated to Peshawar from Jhelum in the 1730s and settled within the walled city, then a thriving trading post
