Bannu District 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.
Bannu also called Bana and Bani is a city located on the Kurram River in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the capital of Bannu Division. Bannu's residents are primarily members of the Banuchi tribe and speak Banuchi (Baniswola), a dialect of Pashto which is similar to the distinct Waziristani dialect. The residents regardless of their tribes are commonly called Banusi, Banuchi or Banisi.
Lakki Marwat is a district in the Bannu Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It was created as an administrative district on July 1, 1992, prior to which it was a tehsil of the Bannu District.
Bannu Division is one of seven divisions in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It consists of three districts: Bannu, Lakki Marwat, and North Waziristan. According to the 2017 Pakistani Census, the division had a population of 2,656,801, making it the least populous division in the province, but it spans 9,975 km2 (3,851 sq mi) of area, and this makes it the third-smallest division by area in the province. Lakki Marwat is the largest city of Bannu Division, with around 60,000 people, while the division's namesake and second-largest city is Bannu, with just under 50,000 people. 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. CNIC code of Bannu Division is 11.
Cadet College Razmak is a military high school, located in the valley of Razmak, in North Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan.
Dera Ismail Khan Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is the southernmost division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. CNIC code of Dera Ismail Khan Division is 12.
The Utmanzai or Utmanzai Wazir are a Sunni Muslim Pashtun tribe found in North Waziristan Agency, and Bannu Subdivision Wazir.
Wazir Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Bannu District, Bannu Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. The total population, according to the 1998 census, was 19,600, 98.1% of which have Pashto as a first language, and the remaining 1.9% speak Punjabi. Most of the population belong to the Wazir tribe of Pashtuns.
Bannu Medical College (BMC) is a public medical institute located in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is one of several medical colleges affiliated with the Khyber Medical University and enrolls 100 students each year. BMC is recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and is listed in the World Directory of Medical Colleges.
The 2014 Bannu Bombing was a bombing attack by the Taliban that killed twenty six Pakistani soldiers. Thirty-eight other people were injured as a result of the bombing.
Torka Bazaar is in upper Surani Bannu, Bannu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Azam Khan Durrani is a Pakistani politician, who is currently a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). He was also elected as District Nazim bannu from 2005 to 2010. He is also serving as member of different committees in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. He is the grandson of Khalifa Gul Nawaz, who was a military commander with Haji Mirzali Khan and fought many battles against British Empire.
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2018 include:
On 13 July 2018, ahead of Pakistan's general election, two bombings took place at election rallies in Bannu and Mastung.
Several violent incidents happened before and on the day of the 2018 Pakistani general election, held on 25 July 2018.
Zartaj Gul is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Climate Change, in Imran Khan ministry from 5 October 2018 until 10 April 2022 when Imran Khan was ousted by a no-confidence motion. She remained a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between August 2018 and January 2023.
Mohsin Javed Dawar is a Pakistani politician who is the chairman of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). He had been a member of the National Assembly from August 2018 till August 2023. He is the co-founder of a human rights movement, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He has formerly served as president of the National Youth Organisation (NYO) and the Pashtun Students Federation (PSF), the allied wings of the Awami National Party (ANP).
Maulana Noor Muhammad was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician, who served as a member of the 11th National Assembly of Pakistan from 1997 to 1999.
The Mughal Khel is a subgroup of Yousafzai Pashtun tribe, primarily residing in the southern part of District Bannu, particularly in and around the Ghoriwala region.
