Lakki Marwat
Lakki Marwat
لکی مروت | ||
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District Headquarter / Calling code 0969 | | |
Number of Union councils | 2[7] | |
Website | lakkimarwat |
Lakki Marwat or Lakki (
History
Origins
Lakki was first called by the name of "Thal Daman", which means an open sandy plain.
The tribes of Lakki Marwat, such as the [Bannuchi] are mentioned in the memoirs of
In 1756, Ahmad Shah Durrani incorporated the whole of the Bannu territory into the Durrani Empire centred at Kandahar (later Kabul).[11]
In 1818, the Nawab of the area, Hafiz Ahmed Khan Sado Zai, annexed Isakhel. The following year, he was invited by the White Gund of Marwats to aid him against the Black Gund of Marwats. After doing this, the Nawab, took possession of the whole Marwat area.[12]
In 1836,
After Dewan Lakhi Mull, Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana became the area's tax collector.
British rule
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1951 | 8,634 | — |
1961 | 9,451 | +0.91% |
1972 | 14,359 | +3.88% |
1981 | 18,755 | +3.01% |
1998 | 30,467 | +2.90% |
2017 | 59,465 | +3.58% |
Source: [14][6] |
On 20 March 1849, the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company. The province was divided into the districts of Leiah and Dera Ismail khan. The Isakhel and Marwat, was put into the Dera Ismail Khan District.[15] On 1 January 1861, the Leiah District was broken up and the Dera Jat District was formed with Bannu as its most northern area.
In 1862, Bannu district was expanded to include parts of
The municipality was constituted in 1874.[16] On 9 November 1901, the Mianwali District was formed out of the tehsils of Isa Khel and Mianwali from the Bannu District and Bhakkar and Leyyah from Dera Ismail Khan District.[15] The population in 1901 was 5,218.
Post-Independence
A Narrow gauge (762 mm or 2 ft 6 in) railway line was linked it with
On 1 January 2010, at least 99 people were killed in the nearby village
See also
- Lakki Marwat District
- Bannu Division
- List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population
- Naurang
- Ghoriwala
- Darra Pezu
References
- ^ "JUI-F wins another tehsil chairman seat in recount". The News International (newspaper). 23 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ "Widening of key Lakki road okayed". Dawn (newspaper). 15 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ "Lakki municipal authorities get cleaning equipment". The News International (newspaper). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ "AAC Directs Shopkeepers To Follow Administration's Price Lists". Urdu Point (newspaper). 6 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ "KP's new LG system: structure, powers, and voting process". SAMAA TV. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ a b "POPULATION AND HOUSEHOLD DETAIL FROM BLOCK TO DISTRICT LEVEL KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA (LAKKI MARWAT DISTRICT)" (PDF). LAKKI MARWAT_BLOCKWISE.pdf. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 3 January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ a b Tehsils & Unions in the District of Lakki Marwat - Government of Pakistan[permanent dead link]
- ^ OCLC 62341253
- ^ Elliot H. M. 'The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians' in "The Muhammadan period: Volume 1"
- ^ Briggs, J. trans. Mohammad Kasim Firishta, "History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India Till the Year A.D. 1612“, Volume VI
- ^ North-West Frontier Province. Gazetteer of Bannu District (1883–84). (Lahore. Sang-e-Meel. 1989) pp. 36-226
- ^ a b Thorburn, S.S., Bannu or our Afghan Frontier, (Kessinger, 1876) pp. 19-224
- ^ Hunter, William Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial series, North West frontier Province, Vols. VIII-XVI, 1908, p. 130
- ^ "TABLE-1: AREA & POPULATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS BY RURAL/URBAN: 1951-1998 CENSUSES" (PDF). Administrative Units.pdf. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ a b Gazetteer of Mian wali District, 1915 p. 40
- ^ Lakki - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 130.
- ^ Pakistan volleyball bomb toll climbs to more than 90 from BBC retrieved 19 September 2013
Sources
- Bellew, Henry Walter, "An inquiry into the ethnography of Afghanistan" (Karachi Indus Publications, 1891)
- Edwards, Herbert Benjamin, A Year on the Punjab Frontier 1848-49, Vol. 1
- Hunter, William Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial series, North West frontier Province, Vols. VIII and XVI (1908)
- Rose, Ibbetson and Maclagan, A Glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province Vol. I, p. 48 and Vol. III, p. 139
- Thorburn, S.S., Report on the first Regular Land Revenue Settlement of the Bannu District in the Dera jat Division of the Punjab, (1879)