Bannu District (Pashto: بنو, (Urdu: ضلع بنوں) is one of 24 districts that make up the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is represented in the provincial assembly by four MPAs. The district's main city is Bannu, near Waziristan.
The major industries of Bannu are cloth weaving and the manufacturing of cotton fabrics, machinery, and equipment. It is famous for its weekly Jumma fair. Bannu is very green place, set amongst rugged and dry mountains, but with very fertile land. Early English visitors had been known to refer to it as a "paradise".
The district has only one University: the University of Science and Technology, Bannu; two long-distance learning education centers: BEST, Sarhad University and Danish Kadda; two post graduate colleges; a Campus of the Engineering University Pshawar, which is affiliated with the University of Engineering and Technology U.E.T, Peshawar; six degree colleges for girls, and, more than 500 primary, middle and higher secondary schools for girls and boys.
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