Lakki Marwat or Lakki is the headquarters of Lakki Marwat District

Lakki Marwat District

Lakki Marwat is one of the Southern Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It was created as an administrative district on July 1, 1992, prior to which it was a Tehsil of Bannu District.-Etymology:...

 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. It is located at 32°41 25N 70°50'5E and has an altitude of 255 metres (839 feet), the town is administratively divided into 2 union councils

Union Councils of Pakistan

A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...

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History

In 1844 Fateh Khan Tiwana, the revenue collector of the Sikh government, built and garrisoned a fort in the heart of Marwat which he called Ihsanpur. A town grew up under its walls and became the capital of Marwat until 1864, when the site was abandoned and the inhabitants removed to Lakki on the right bank of the Gambila River

Gambila River

The Gambila River , also called the Tochi river , is located in Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the former North-West Frontier Province, northern Pakistan....

. The municipality was constituted in 1874.

During British rule

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

 Lakki served as headquarters of the Marwat Tehsil of Bannu District

Bannu Division

Bannu Division was an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government...

 then part of Dera Ismail Khan Division

Dera Ismail Khan Division

Dera Ismail Khan Division was an administrative division of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government....

. The Population in 1901 was 5,218.

Tanzeel-ur-Rehman, also known as Tanzeela Marwat in section of society, remained the nazim of city from 200 to 2003. His unconditional support to Musharaf regime soon brought him into disgrace. On 1 January 2010, at least 99 people were killed in the town when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a volleyball

Volleyball

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