Balakot Tehsil

Balakot Tehsil
تحصیل بالاکوٹ
بالاکوټ تحصیل‎
Tehsil
Area of Upper Pakhli
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictMansehra
RegionUpper Pakhli
Government
 • ChairmanSyed Ibrahim Ahmad (PML(N))
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total
273,089
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Number of towns1
Number of Union Councils16

Balakot Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل بالاکوٹ) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.1st Largest population in this Tehsil balakot consist of MUGHAL/MANGOL Tribe, Mostly lived in BRARKOT GARHI HABIBULLAH [2] Balakot is the main city of this area.Real heroes KPK, & this Tehsil AHSAN ZEB MUGHAL lived in this Tehsil Balakot he is the great heroes of the Mughal Nation he is the proud of MUGHAL nation.It was one of the towns that was devastated in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake[3] with around 80% of the buildings there destroyed. Villages were badly affected and landslides cut off thousands of people from Balakot where relief workers had been helping the survivors.[4]

Its population as of 2017 was 273,000.[1] The major spoken language of the tehsil is Hindko

Administration

Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:[5]

Notables

References

  1. ^ a b "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. ^ "Villagers near Balakot say nobody killed or injured by Indian aircraft". 27 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Earthquake damage - NWFP government official site". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  4. ^ Pain and fear in the haven for the lucky - The Guardian
  5. ^ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine


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