About District

  BRIEF HISTORY OF TANK DISTRICT

   Tank is one of the twenty-five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The word Tank is a derivative from the native word ‘Takk’ which means the final frontier. Tank, once an autonomous state, has remained the border of the mainland India with the mountains and hence named Takk or Tank. Since days immemorial till the coming into being of Pakistan, Tank was ruled by Kattikhel family. They had established peace with the British and in return were granted limited autonomy to rule the state of Takk. Nawab Qutab-ud-Din Kattikhel was the last Nawab of Tank. He also remained president of the Dera Ismail Khan chapter of All India Muslim League. He was elected to the provincial assembly of NWFP in 1933 and became the Deputy Speaker of the assembly.  The modern era of Tank began when the status of Tank was raised from the level of tehsil to that of a district of Dera Ismail Khan Division on 1^st July 1992.

1-General Introduction of Tank District: -

        District Administration has two separate spheres: elected District Government in settled Tank and Political Administration in the Frontier Region (FR) Tank.

      The district government of Tank is run under the Local Government Ordinance of 2001. The Deputy Commissioner acts as local officer for implementation of the policies and programs of the provincial government and has therefore a dual role. The District Police Officer is responsible to maintain Law and Order under the Police Order 2002. Tank is a single Tehsil district and has therefore one single Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) which is head by Tehsil Municipal Officer/Administrator. TMA is responsible for municipal services in Tank city including drinking water supply. The lowest tier of governance is Union Council and there are sixteen union councils in Tank. There are about 87 notable villages in the district.

            Political Administration of FR Tank is carried out under the Frontier Crimes Regulation of 1901.

Source census 2017