Miryan Tehsil | |
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Miryan Tehsil | |
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Country | ![]() |
Region | ![]() |
District | Bannu District |
Government | |
• Chairman | Kamal Shah |
Area | |
• Total | 130 km2 (50 sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+6 (PDT) |
Miryan Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Bannu District in Bannu Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population is 145,948 and it covers an area of 130km2. [1]
Kamal Shah is the chairman of the tehsil. [2] Shah took part in tehsil-wide protests in Bannu District following the abduction of a schoolteacher and for other local issues. [3] The tehsil forms part of the Bannu-II and Bannu-III electoral constituencies. [4]
The area has seen attacks by militants for a while, in 2011 a car-bomb killed 18 at Miryan police station, [5] two years later (2013) a police van was damaged by an IED outside a Girls school. [6] In 2024 an attack on a police station in Miryan took place, [7] in June 2025 Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi praised the police for foiling an attack that month [8] and in July 2025 the latest attack involved a quadcopter drone [9] in which one woman was killed and three others were injured. [10]