Bannu in KPK Pakistan

Bannu (Urdu: بنوں‎; Pashto: بنو‎ ; neighborhood Pashto vernacular: Bana or Banigul, Avestan Varəna), is the central city of the Bannu District in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Bannu was at one time a British army installation utilized for activity against Afghan fringe tribes. 

Occupants of Bannu are known as Banuchi, and talk a particular vernacular of Pashto.

History

The Avesta and Vendidad say Varəna, the old name of Bannu has one of the sixteen most lovely and flawless grounds made by Ahura Mazda. 

Bannu is noted by the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini as the "recorded nation of Varnu" specified in the Mahāmāyūrī. 

In 602 CE, the Chinese traveler Xuanzang flown out to Varnu. 

Bannu is Hellenized to Aornos and said in the sections of Alexander the Great. 

Sheri Khan Tarakai alludes to the remains of an old settlement that was involved close present-day Bannu from the late fifth until the early third thousand years, BC.

Founding of Bannu Town

The town was established in 1848 by Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, a Lieutenant in the first Bengal European Fusiliers Regiment of the East India Company's private armed force. He requested the development of the fortification – named Dhulipgarh (Dalipgarh) to pay tribute to the Maharajah of Lahore – in the meantime. 

At the season of its establishing the town was named Dhulipnagar (Dalipnagar). Its name was later changed to Edwardesabad in 1869. In 1903, it got its present name, Bannu.

British Raj era

Bannu framed the base of operations for every single reformatory campaign embraced by troops of the British domain to the Tochi Valley and the Waziristan outskirts. A military street driven from the town of Bannu toward Dera Ismail Khan. This street was worked by military architects under the supervision of a Bannu design, Ram N. Mullick. Mullick, moved on from Banaras Engineering College had served in Iraq and Lahore before the autonomy of Pakistan in 1947 as a specialist in overwhelming earth-moving gear. 

The Imperial British Gazetteer depicted Bannu as: 

[The populace in 1901 was] 14,291, including cantonment and common lines (4,349). It was established in 1848 by Lieutenant (thereafter Sir Herbert) Edwardes, who chose the site for political reasons. The fortification, raised in the meantime, bore the name of Dhulipgarh (Dalipgarh), out of appreciation for the Maharaja of Lahore; and the bazar was otherwise called Dhulipnagar (Dalipnagar). A town step by step grew up around the bazar, and numerous Hindko speaking Hindu merchants moved there from Bazar Ahmad Khan, which had framed the business focus of the Bannu valley preceding extension. The Church Missionary Society bolsters a little church and a secondary school established in 1865. The cantonment focuses in the post of Dhulipgarh. Its army comprises of a mountain battery, a regiment of local rangers, and two regiments of infantry. The district was constituted in 1867.

The metropolitan receipts and use amid the ten years finishing 1903–1904 found the middle value of Rs. 46,000. In 1903–1904 the wage was Rs. 47,000 mainly determined fromoctroi; and the consumption was Rs. 55,000. The receipts and use of cantonment stores amid the ten years finishing 1902–3 arrived at the midpoint of Rs. 4,200 and Rs. 3,700. The plentiful water system and lacking waste of the encompassing fields render Bannu an unfortunate station. The town has an extensive exchange, including fish guts and butts. Likewise, grasping the entire movement in neighborhood deliver of the Bannu valley. The closest railroad station is at Kohat on the Khushalgarh-Thal branch of the North-Western Railway, 79 miles removed by street. A week by week reasonable gathers a normal number of 8,000 purchasers and merchants. The main articles of exchange are material, live-stock, fleece, cotton, tobacco and grain. Bannu has a dispensary and two secondary schools, an open library and a town corridor known as the Nicholson Memorial.