Talk:Dera Ismail Khan District

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History resource[edit]

I'm a bit busy at the moment, but if anyone wants to footnote some history, there's a good British resource here for the area: http://books.google.com/books?id=ynErxAOIz9gC&pg=PA71&dq=1999+population+dera+ismail+khan&hl=en&ei=GO9ITdi6GcL48Abm3Km2Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false . MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:45, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Gandapurs are a Pashtun tribe inhabiting the environs of Dera Ismail Khan, a major commercial center the west bank of the Indus River, in the southern region of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, near the frontier with South Waziristan. The Gandapurs reside principally in the small town of Kulachi on the bank of River Gomal, a tributary of River Indus and trace their origin to Afghanistan. They settled in Dera Ismail Khan area in 17th Century A.D. A part of the tribe lives in Sur Kalay in Ghazni Province of Afghanistan. http://dikcity.weebly.com/famous-places.html http://gandapurhistory.blogspot.com/ Tigerkhan007 (talk) 13:19, 18 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Languages[edit]

According to Census 2017, about 3.72 percent of the population of KP is Saraiki Speaking. Now considering that 30,523,371 the total number of Saraiki speakers in KP is 1,135,469 (3.72 % of 30,523,371). If those are considered to be entirely living in D.I. Khan district than arond 70% of the population of D.I Khan District is Saraiki, while the remaining is Pashto speaking. However, that is not the case as there are few Saraiki speakers in Tank District as well. Furthermore, many pashto speakers moved to Tank and DI Khan districts due to war on terror etc.

Therefore, the most realistic assumption is around 60% of DI Khan is Saraiki speaking, while only 10% of Tank District is Saraiki.182.180.61.170 (talk) 10:10, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. Unless this figure of 60% has been reported somewhere, we can't include it solely based on our reasoning, because that would constitute original research. There are three things we can do: a) after the text quoting the 70% figure from the 1998 census, we could add some additional text about the recent influx of Pashto-speakers, if there is a source for that; b) wait until the district-wise results of the 2017 census come out; or c) remove mention of the resutls from the 1998 census, if they're considered misleading. – Uanfala (talk) 11:04, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]