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Bannu District (Pashto: بنو ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع بنوں) is a district in the Bannu Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Its status as a district was formally recorded in 1861 during the British Raj. [2] [3]: 3 This district constitutes one of the 26 districts that collectively form the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Bannu Division is one of seven divisions in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It consists of three districts: Bannu, Lakki Marwat, and North Waziristan. [2] [8] The division borders Dera Ismail Khan Division to the south and west, Kohat Division to the north and east, and the province of Punjab, Pakistan to its east.
The major industries of Bannu are cloth weaving, sugar mills [8] and the manufacturing of cotton fabrics, machinery and equipment. [9] It is famous for its weekly Jumma fair. The district forms a basin drained by the Kurram and Gambila (or Tochi) rivers. [10]
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
Domel Tehsil (Pashto: ډومیل تحصیل, Urdu: تحصیل ڈومیل), alternatively transliterated as Domail Tehsil, is an administrative subdivision of Bannu District, Bannu Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. [1] [2] It is located about 15 km from Bannu on Bannu–Kohat road.
Bannu was recorded as a district in 1861 during the British Raj. The district is situated 190 km to the south of the provincial capital Peshawar and shares borders with North Waziristan, Karak, Lakki Marwat, and South Waziristan. The district covers an area of approximately 1,227 square kilometers and has a population of around 1.4 million people.
NA-39 Bannu (این اے-39، بنوں) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It covers the whole of district Bannu . The constituency was formerly known as NA-26 Bannu from 1977 to 2018.
Domel (Pashto: ډومېل) also spelled as Domail is a main town in Domel tehsil of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is also union council of Bannu District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. [1] Domel is inhabited mostly by Ahmadzai Wazir tribe of Pashtuns. Majority of the population follow Islam as their main religion.