Bannu (Urdu: بنوں; Pashto: بنو [ˈbanu], in the local Pashto dialect called Bana) The City of the Bannu District is located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. Bannu city was erected by Sir Herbert Edwardes in 1848, and was formerly called Dullipnagar and the fort as Dullipgarh, and then name of the city changed to Edwardesabad and the fort named as Fort Edwardes in 1874. The name was a
gain changed as 'Bannu' in 1902 when Bannu was separated from Punjab and included in the territorial boundaries of NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). The town of Bannu lies in the north-west corner of the district. It was a military base, especially in actions against Afghanborder tribes, and still stationed with troops till this day. The town is located 79 miles (127 km) south of Kohat, and 89 miles (143 km) north of Dera Ismail Khan.
