P akistan has diverse agro-ecological regions comprising both plains and mountains of Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. These regions include high precipitous valleys and irrigated plains. The environmental issues such as temperature fruitfulness status, soil distinctiveness and rainfall play a vital role in the varietal recital. Wheat is successfully grown in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It occupies 40% of the total cropped area and 60% of the area grown to cereals in the province. In 2013-14 the total area devoted to wheat cultivation in KP was 0.72 million ha, which produced 1.15 million tonnes of wheat with an average yield of 1590 kg/ha (GoP, 2015). Improvement in wheat production is essential for future purposes because of ever increasing population pressure. We need to develop such varieties that fulfil our nutritional requirements. Breeding objectives for bread wheat include suitability of different maturity groups for early, mild, and late planting and also special importance are given on high yield, resistance to diseases, resistance to lodging, wide adaptation, better milling, baking and nutritional qualities. Heritability and genetic advance are important to plant Abstract | Heritability plays a pivotal role in selection. Breeders could predict the performance of crop plants by knowing the magnitude of heritability. An experiment was conducted using a set of spring wheat genotypes to estimate heritability for various plant traits during crop season 2014-15 at the University of Agriculture, Peshawar. The randomized complete block design with three replications was used in the experiment. Data were recorded on yield and some other important plant traits like days to heading (days), days to maturity (days), flag leaf area (cm 2 ), spike length (cm), grains spike -1 (no.), grains weight spike -1 (g), biological yield (kg ha -1 ) and grain yield (kg ha -1 ). Mean performance of genotypes showed that all the spring wheat genotypes performed well for all the traits. Spring wheat cultivar Tatara showed best performance for maturity, similarly, genotype SM12 performed well for grains spike -1 and grain weight spike -1 , whereas, genotype SM4 performed well for grain yield. Relatively high heritability with low genetic advance was estimated for days to maturity, while moderate to high heritability coupled with genetic advance was recorded for other yield related traits. Correlation analysis showed that grain yield had strong positive phenotypic and genetic correlation with heading, maturity, flag leaf area and biological yield. Spring wheat genotype SM12 had best performance for grains spike -1 and grain weight spike -1 should be further tested at different location of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for possible release as a new cultivar.