- Source: Balakot Tehsil
Balakot Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل بالاکوٹ) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Balakot is the main city of this area. It was one of the towns that was devastated in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake 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.
Its population as of 2017 was 273,000. The major spoken language of the tehsil is Hindko.
Administration
Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:
Balakot
Garhi Habibullah Khan
Garlat
Ghanool
Hangrai
Kaghan
Karnol
Kiwai
Mahandri
Satbani
Shohal Mazullah
Talhataa
Attershisha
Notables
Jageerdar Wasil Khan Swati(Khan of Balakot during Sikh rule who helped Syed Ahmed Shaheed)
Jageerdar Lal Khan Swati (Khan of Balakot during British Rule)
Syed Qasim Shah (MNA)
Syed Ahmed Hussain Shah(MPA)
Mian Wali Ur Rehman (MPA)
Munir Lughmani Swati (MPA, Advocate Supreme Court)
Mian Zia Ur Rehman (MPA)
Wajid Hamayun Khan Swati(Politician)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Balakot Tehsil
- Balakot
- Kaghan Valley
- Balakot (disambiguation)
- Munir Hussain (Pakistani politician)
- Suki Kinari Hydropower Project
- Garhi Habibullah
- Battangi
- Mansehra District
- Satbani
