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Dera Ismail Khan

ਡੇਰਾ ਇਸਮਾਈਲ ਖ਼ਾਨڈیرا اسماعیل خان

Indus town taken during the Mankera campaign of 1821.

Dera Ismail Khan is a town on the west bank of the Indus, at the edge of the Sulaiman mountains, founded by a Baloch chief in the fifteenth century.

It was taken by the Sikhs during the Mankera campaign of 1821 and governed for a time by Ventura.

It is now a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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