Dande Darpakhel is a village in

North Waziristan North Waziristan District (, ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering . The capital ...

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. It is a suburb of

Miranshah Mīrānshāh ()() is a main town in the region that is the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Miranshah lies on the banks of the Tochi River in a wide valley surrounded by the foo ...

. The village has been the target of a number of US drone strikes, one of which, in November 2013, killed the

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.Drone strike in Pakistan kills head of Pakistan Taliban
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, Dande Darpakhel has 0 inhabitants.

Notable people

Mohsin Dawar Mohsin Javed Dawar () is a Pakistani politician who is the chairman of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). He had been a member of the National Assembly from August 2018 till August 2023. He is the co-founder of a human rights movement, Pash ...

References

Ghost towns in Pakistan Populated places in North Waziristan {{NorthWaziristan-geo-stub