Dera Ismail Khan Division ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان ڈویژن ډېره اسماعيل خان څانګه | |
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Country | Pakistan |
Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Capital | Dera Ismail Khan |
Government | |
• Type | Divisional Administration |
• Commissioner | Amir Latif (PAS) [1] |
• Regional Police Officer | Nasir Memood Satti (PSP) |
Area | |
• Division | 18,854 km2 (7,280 sq mi) |
Population (2023) | |
• Division | 3,188,779 |
• Density | 169.13/km2 (438.0/sq mi) |
• Urban | 423,929 (13.29%) |
• Rural | 2,764,850 |
Ethnicities | |
• People | |
Literacy | |
• Literacy rate |
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Website | cdk |
Dera Ismail Khan Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. [4] It is the southernmost division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. CNIC code of Dera Ismail Khan Division is 12.
Dera Ismail Khan Division borders Bannu Division (also Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) in the north, Dera Ghazi Khan Division and Sargodha Division (both Punjab) in the south-east and east respectively, Zhob Division (Balochistan) province in the south, and Afghanistan in the west.
It was formed after the implementation of the One Unit Scheme in 1954, according to which the North-West Frontier Province was divided into Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar Divisions reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. Until the 1990s, it also contained Bannu Division. After the passing of the 25th Amendment in 2018, the South Waziristan Tribal Agency was added to the division. [5] [6]
# | District | Headquarter | Area (km²) [7] | Pop. (2023) | Density (ppl/km²) (2023) [7] | Lit. rate (2023) |
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1 | Upper South Waziristan | Spinkai | 2,815 | N/A | N/A | 31.96% |
2 | Lower South Waziristan | Wana | 3,805 | N/A | N/A | 31.96% |
3 | Tank | Tank | 2,900 | 470,293 | 162.2 | 40.67% |
4 | Dera Ismail Khan | Dera Ismail Khan | 9,334 | 1,829,811 | 196.1 | 46.58% |
# | Tehsil | Area (km²) [7] | Pop. (2023) | Density (ppl/km²) (2023) [7] | Lit. rate (2023) [7] | Districts |
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1 | Daraban Tehsil | 1,540 | 149,447 | 97.04 | Dera Ismail Khan District | |
2 | Darazinda Tehsil | 2,008 | 82,386 | 41.03 | ||
3 | Dera Ismail Khan Tehsil | 1,167 | 767,979 | 658.08 | ||
4 | Kulachi Tehsil | 1,229 | 102,595 | 83.48 | ||
5 | Paharpur Tehsil | 1,657 | 406,467 | 245.3 | ||
6 | Paniala Tehsil | |||||
7 | Paroa Tehsil | 1,733 | 320,937 | 185.19 | ||
8 | Birmil Tehsil | 923 | 112,757 | 122.16 | Lower South Waziristan District | |
9 | Shakai Tehsil | |||||
10 | Toi Khulla Tehsil | 567 | 102,835 | 181.37 | ||
11 | Wana Tehsil | 2,315 | 184,645 | 79.76 | ||
12 | Ladha Tehsil | 289 | 108,344 | 374.89 | Upper South Waziristan District | |
13 | Makin Tehsil | 404 | 66,042 | 163.47 | ||
14 | Sararogha Tehsil | 813 | 145,118 | 178.5 | ||
15 | Sarwakai Tehsil | 398 | 58,804 | 147.75 | ||
16 | Shaktoi Tehsil | 177 | 44,332 | 250.46 | ||
17 | Shawal Tehsil | |||||
18 | Tiarza Tehsil | 734 | 65,798 | 89.64 | ||
19 | Jandola Tehsil | 1,221 | 44,794 | 36.69 | Tank District | |
20 | Tank Tehsil | 1,679 | 425,499 | 253.42 |
In the 1951 Census of Pakistan, 74.8% of population of Dera Ismail Division was reported to be speaker of Saraiki (labelled as Punjabi), forming a majority. The share of Pashto speakers was 22%. [9]
Religious group | 1881 [10] | 1891 [11] | 1901 [12] | 1911 [13] | 1921 [14] | 1931 [15] | 1941 [16] [17] : 22 | |||||||
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Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
Islam | 385,244 | 87.23% | 420,189 | 86.42% | 218,338 | 86.51% | 224,992 | 87.85% | 218,315 | 83.72% | 235,707 | 86% | 255,757 | 85.79% |
Hinduism | 54,446 | 12.33% | 62,961 | 12.95% | 29,434 | 11.66% | 28,617 | 11.17% | 39,311 | 15.08% | 35,822 | 13.07% | 39,167 | 13.14% |
Sikhism | 1,691 | 0.38% | 2,840 | 0.58% | 4,362 | 1.73% | 2,175 | 0.85% | 1,904 | 0.73% | 1,878 | 0.69% | 2,390 | 0.8% |
Christianity | 253 | 0.06% | 204 | 0.04% | 230 | 0.09% | 336 | 0.13% | 1,237 | 0.47% | 657 | 0.24% | 810 | 0.27% |
Zoroastrianism | 13 | 0% | 7 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
Jainism | 2 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 15 | 0.01% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
Buddhism | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 5 | 0% |
Judaism | — | — | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
Others | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
Total population | 441,649 | 100% | 486,201 | 100% | 252,379 | 100% | 256,120 | 100% | 260,767 | 100% | 274,064 | 100% | 298,131 | 100% |
Note: British North-West Frontier Province era figures are for Dera Ismail Khan District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Dera Ismail Khan Division. |
It currently contains the following districts: [18]
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