It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008.

At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar.

Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan (and its tehsils) also became a division itself.

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