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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. ^[1]

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

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..."

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

Photograph: Dera, Church in Cantt by Mudasir Hassan uploaded April 18, 2009 panoramio.com, now archived. Appears to be 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. (You need to agree to Terms and Conditions of Use)
"D. I. Khan: How cities change" by Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi June 28th, 2009 The Pakistani Spectator. now archived.
Church is melancholy reminder of region's rebellions. 03 Apr 2006 article detailing condition of St Thomas's Church and Memorial Inscriptions in Dera Ismail Khan. telegraph.co.uk, archived.

Gazetteer of the Dera Ismail Khan District 1883-4 1884 Punjab Government. Archive.org
"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".

↑ "Notes on a Tour Through Waziristan" by Major A. D. Stirling Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1927;49:2 pages 143-151.

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 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160707053535/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1514707/Church-is-melancholy-reminder-of-regions-rebellions.html Church is melancholy reminder of region's rebellions]. 03 Apr 2006 article detailing condition of St Thomas's Church and Memorial Inscriptions in Dera Ismail Khan.  telegraph.co.uk, archived.
 ===Historical books online===
+*[https://archive.org/details/gaz-dera-ismail-khan-1883/page/n7/mode/2up ''Gazetteer of the Dera Ismail Khan District 1883-4''] 1884 Punjab Government. Archive.org
 *[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/44/3/204.full.pdf "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".