Isakhel is a town of Mianwali District

Mianwali District

Mianwali is a district in the northwest of Punjab province, Pakistan. It borders eight districts: Attock District in the north, Chakwal District in the northeast, Khushab District in the east, and Bhakkar District in the south, while Lakki Marwat lies to the west, Kohat and Karak districts to the...

 in the Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 province of Pakistan

Pakistan

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. The town is the headquarters of Isakhel Tehsil

Isakhel Tehsil

Isakhel Tehsil is an administrative subdivision of Mianwali District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Isakhel is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 14 Union Councils. It is located between 32° 30′ and 33° 14′ N...

, an administrative subdivision of the district and is located at 32°40'29N 71°16'52E.

Isakhel is an important town located in the west of Mianwali District. It is a historical town named after Isa Khan

Isa Khan

Isa Khan is the most famous of the Baro Bhuiyans of medieval Bengal. He was the ruler of a region named Bhati. Throughout his reign he put resistance against Mughal invasion. It was only after his death, when the region went totally under Mughals.-Early life:It is estimated that he was born in 1529...

, a famous Niazi

Niazi

The Niazi are a tribe of Ghilzai Pashtun people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey. The name Niazi is derived from Niazai, like the other forms of Pashtun tribes, such as Yusufzai and Orakzai...

 chief. Until November 1901 Isa Khel was tehsil headquarters of Bannu District

Bannu District

Bannu District is one of the twenty four districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, it is represented in the provincial assembly by four MPAs. The chief city of the district is Bannu. The major industries are cloth weaving and the manufacture of cotton fabrics, machinery, and...

 - however after the North-West Frontier Province

North-West Frontier Province

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province and various other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the north-west of the country...

 was created from Punjab province, Bannu District was included in the NWFP without the Isakhel Tehsil. Isa Khel became part of the newly formed Mianwali District of the Punjab.

History

The town was founded about 1830 by Ahmad Khan, ancestor of the present Khans of Isa Khel, who were the acknowledged heads of the trans-Indus Niazai; and it takes its name from Isa Khan, a religious teacher and noble governor in sher shah suri court. The municipality was created in 1875. The present Khans of Isa Khel still reside there and the town's administrative power seem to belong to The Nawab of Isa Khel Abdul Rehman Khan Niazi, famously known as 'Bubly Khan'.

In 1901, during British rule, when the tehsil became part of Mianwali, the population of the town was 7,630. The income and expenditure during the ten years ending 1902-3 averaged Rs. 4,400. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 5,100, chiefly derived from octroi

Octroi

Octroi is a local tax collected on various articles brought into a district for consumption.-Antiquity:Octroi taxes have a respectable antiquity, being known in Roman times as vectigalia...

; and the expenditure was Rs. 4,600. During that time a small cattle market was held weekly. The town contained a dispensary and a municipal vernacular middle school.