Ipi, Waziristan

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 from Ipi. Over time, Khan came to be widely recognised as the Faqir of Ipi — a term first used by the British, who often applied the term faqir to denote ascetic or religious figures throughout South Asia.