Ipi, Waziristan
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Ipi
ايپي آی پي | |
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Village | |
  Ipi  Ipi | |
| Coordinates: 32°57′15″N 70°17′58″E / 32.95417°N 70.29944°E | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province |  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | North Waziristan |
| Tehsil | Mir Ali |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Ipi is a village in the North Waziristan District of Bannu Division in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The village attained prominence as the operational base of Mirza Ali Khan, a prominent insurgent leader who orchestrated sustained resistance against the British Empire[1] from Ipi.[2] Over time, Khan came to be widely recognised as the Faqir of Ipi[3] — a term first used by the British[4], who often applied the term faqir to denote ascetic or religious figures throughout South Asia.[5]
In 1923 Mirza Ali Khan, who later became known as the Faqir of Ipi, settled in the village of Ipi. Khan had performed the Haj to Mecca that year before settling in the village where he began to gain a reputation as a holy man among the Daurs. The village of Ipi was near to a British military road that linked Bannu with Razmak and in 1936 Khan managed to rouse the Daurs into rebellion against the British.[6]