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Bannu is a city in Pakistan.

Bannu may also refer to:

Bannu District District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Bannu District is a district in Bannu Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was recorded as a district in 1861 during the British Raj. It is one of 26 districts that make up the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It borders North Waziristan to the northwest, Karak to the northeast, Lakki Marwat to the southeast, and South Waziristan to the southwest. It is represented in the provincial assembly by four MPAs. The district's main city is Bannu.

Bannu Division was an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. The division was created in the 1990s when it was removed from Dera Ismail Khan Division.

Bannu Airport

Bannu Airport is situated 6 nm west of the city center of Bannu, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is not as large as other airports of Pakistan, as it is built to provide services to the people of Bannu and its adjacent areas. Currently, Pakistan International Airlines does not have any scheduled flights to this airport.

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Bannu Biradari or All India Bannu Biradari (Regd.) is the community of Hindus who migrated from Bannu to India after partition of united India. It consists of 11 trusts.

The Bannu Brigade was formed after the 1903 reforms of the British Indian Army by Herbert Kitchener when he was Commander-in-Chief, India. The brigade was part of the Northern Army and deployed along the North West Frontier. In 1914 at the start of World War I the composition of the brigade was:

The Bannu Resolution, or the Pashtunistan Resolution, was a formal political statement adopted by Pashtun nationalists in Bannu that demanded the British to offer the option of independence for Pashtunistan, comprising all Pashtun territories of British India, rather than choosing between the independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The British refused the request, and the North-West Frontier Province voted in favour of joining Pakistan in a July 1947 referendum. However, Bacha Khan, his elder brother and the then Chief Minister Dr Khan Sahib, and the Khudai Khidmatgars boycotted the referendum in response, citing that it did not have the options of the NWFP becoming independent or joining Afghanistan.

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