Miryan Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Bannu District in Bannu Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population is 145,948 and it covers an area of 130km2.
Kamal Shah is the chairman of the tehsil.[ Government of Khyber Pakhtunkwa] Shah took part in tehsil-wide protests in Bannu District following the abduction of a schoolteacher and for other local issues.
Militancy
The area has seen attacks by militants for a while, in 2011 a car-bomb killed 18 at Miryan police station,
two years later (2013) a police van was damaged by an IED outside a Girls school.
[ No casualties: Police vehicle damaged in roadside blast] In 2024 an attack on a police station in Miryan took place,
in June 2025 Federal Interior Minister
Mohsin Naqvi praised the police for foiling an attack that month
[ KP Police receive praise from Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi] and in July 2025 the latest attack involved a quadcopter drone
in which one woman was killed and three others were injured.
