Balakot Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل بالاکوٹ) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan [2] Balakot is the main city of this. 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]
- 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Villagers near Balakot say nobody killed or injured by Indian aircraft". 27 February 2019.
- ^ "Earthquake damage - NWFP government official site". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
- ^ Pain and fear in the haven for the lucky - The Guardian
- ^ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
