Dera Ismail Khan

Dera Ismail Khan
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	31.816667°N 70.916667°E
Altitude:	165 m (541 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Dera Ismail Khan
State/Province:	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, old NWFP
Country:	Pakistan
Transport links

Dera Ismail Khan was the capital of Dera Ismail Khan District in the North West Frontier Province during the British period. In the 1920s it was always referred to as D.I.K.

Churches

• St Thomas Church.

Cemeteries

Comment on FIBIS’s Facebook page 11 August 2013 by Shahjahan Bhatti "There is graveyard on River Indus in Dera Ismail Khan. All graves are of English people who died here. .. I have witnessed around hundred cemented graves with a cemented boundry wall. The cemetery is situated in cantonement area where these days civilians are not allowed...". Comment by Omer Khan "I thought that there was an old Christian graveyard near the old Anglican Church..."

• BACSA cemetery file - Dera Ismail Khan Cemetery , Pakistan (closed 1871). British Library ref Mss Eur F370/694
• Just over a dozen graves in both old and new cemeteries have been transcribed in A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1 by Miles Irving (1910), page 174. Hathi Trust Digital Library

Gallery

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  A class of students of Dera Ismail Khan
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  Probably the farewell of Abdullah Khan 1914
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  Tomb- Sir Henry Marion Durand, in the compound of St. Thomas's Church
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  Victoria Bharatari High School Dera Ismail Khan
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  Commemorative Plaque in Vedic Bharatari (V.B) College Dera Ismail Khan
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  Plaque in the memory of Rai Tehl Ram Bagai at Vedic Bharatari (V.B) College Dera Ismail Khan

Other FIBIS Resources

• Photographs of Dera Ismail Khan in Fibis Gallery

External Links

• Photograph: Dera, Church in Cantt by Mudasir Hassan uploaded April 18, 2009 panoramio.com. Probably St. Thomas's Church
• "Opening Up of Baluchistan" "Motor Road through the Mountains to link Dera Ismail Khan with Fort Sandeman. Bridle paths running through the Takht-i-Sulaiman mountains are being transformed into a motor highway". The Straits Times, 28 April 1940, Page 12. Newspapers-Singapore Government.
• D. I. Khan: How cities change by Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi June 28th, 2009 The Pakistani Spectator-A Candid Blog
• Church is melancholy reminder of region's rebellions Article detailing condition of St Thomas's Church and Memorial Inscriptions in Dera Ismail Khan. telegraph.co.uk
• General Information about Dera Ismail Khan including historical and religious sites, educational institutes and graveyards. cities.pakwall.com

Historical books online

• "Waziristan District" by Lieutenant-Colonel B. B. Burke Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1925;44:3 pages 204-207. "Every officer must carry a loaded revolver when travelling on account of the possibility of fanatical attacks".