Founded in June 2020, Mafkoora Research & Development Centre is a Peshawar-based scholastic organization committed to accumulating local knowledge, inspiring indigenous wisdom, encouraging creative artisanship, and promoting critical thinking. It disseminates academic and cultural ventures through education, training, art, literature, dialogue, and theatre. Mafkoora is registered under "Societies Act XXI of 1860" in the Office of the Provincial Registrar Joint Stock Companies & Societies, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.