It was once a celebrated tradition and cherished legacy of the Deputy Commissioners in the pre-partition era to document the details of their districts by compiling District Gazetteers. They used to undertake such an arduous task without any computers or means of technology to facilitate them. A gazetteer was considered the most authentic document of a district containing information about its history, people, culture, geography, revenue collection, and issues. These gazetteers compiled during the British era hold great value even today for historians, civil servants and members of the academia. The practice of writing gazetteers continued for some years after partition but gradually withered away over time. Now-a-days, when the office of the Deputy Commissioner has been entrusted with a multitude of responsibilities and workload, the demanding task of writing a comprehensive gazetteer has naturally taken a back seat. As a result, this novel tradition has been lost in the sands of time. The District Administration Bannu has tried to redeem this lost tradition in the province of KPK. This is the second gazetteer produced by a Deputy Commissioner of Bannu since the district was founded in 1848. It is after 138 years that an effort has made been to update the gazetteer of Bannu (the previous gazetteerwas published in 1883). The task of collecting the necessary details for this endeavor has been an exceedingly difficult and laborious one. All the three Settlement Reports of Bannu (published in 1872, 1907 and 1991) were consulted while the statistical data on various subjects was supplied by the District and Provincial Offices of different line departments, and Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.