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Dande Darpakhel

place in Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ15125064 ↗
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Dande Darpakhel is a village in the North Waziristan District of Bannu Division in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is a suburb of Miranshah.

The village has been the target of a number of US drone strikes, one of which, in November 2013, killed the emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud.

As of the 2017 Census of Pakistan, Dande Darpakhel has 0 inhabitants.

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The public source identifies “Dande Darpakhel” as place in Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dande, Darpakhel and place.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dande Darpakhel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.