Domel (or Domail) (ڈومیل) is an administrative subdivision (

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

) of

Bannu District Bannu District ( ps, بنو ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Bannu Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was recorded as a district in 1861 during the British Raj. It is one of 26 districts that make up the Khyber Pakh ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

province of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. It is located about 15 km from

Bannu Bannu ( ps, بنو, translit=banū ; ur, , translit=bannū̃, ) is a city located on the Kurram River in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the capital of Bannu Division. Bannu's residents are primarily members of the Banuchi tribe ...

on Bannu–Kohat road. A nearby village is Patolkhel, 7 km to the east.

Overview and history

Domel became tehsil in 2009 after

Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( ur, ; ps, د خیبر پښتونخوا حکومت), is the provincial government of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its powers and structure are set out in the provisions of the 1973 Consti ...

approved upgrading it from sub tehsil. The main town in Domel tehsil is

Domel Domel ( ps, ډومېل) also spelled as Domail is a main town in Domel tehsil of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is also union council of Bannu District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Domel is inhabited mostly by Ahmadzai ...

. It was part of

Bannu tehsil Bannu is a tehsil located in Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population is 958,504 according to the 2017 census. See also * List of tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa In Pakistan, a tehsil is an administrative sub-division of a ...

prior of it being sub tehsil. The name Domel is said to be from DO and MEL ie two miles. It is said that some British people asked about the name of this place when they came here and a local person who knew no English thought that they were asking about the distance of the local police station, told the distance of the nearby Police Station to be two miles which is do mile دو میل in local language and the British called this place Domel. Domail tehsil has reserves of both oil and gas especially in the Spintangay and Kam Chashmi area.

Administration

The population of Domel Tehsil, according to the 2017 census, is 209,388 while according to the 1998 census, it was 102,710.

References

{{Tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Populated places in Bannu District