Balakot Tehsil
تحصیل بالاکوٹ بالاکوټ تحصیل | |
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Area of Upper Pakhli | |
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Province | ![]() |
District | Mansehra |
Region | Upper Pakhli |
Government | |
• Chairman | Syed Ibrahim Ahmad ( PML(N)) |
Population | |
• Total | 273,089 |
Time zone | UTC+5 ( PST) |
Number of towns | 1 |
Number of Union Councils | 16 |
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 area. 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.
Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils: [5]
Balakot Tehsil
تحصیل بالاکوٹ بالاکوټ تحصیل | |
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Area of Upper Pakhli | |
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Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
District | Mansehra |
Region | Upper Pakhli |
Government | |
• Chairman | Syed Ibrahim Ahmad ( PML(N)) |
Population | |
• Total | 273,089 |
Time zone | UTC+5 ( PST) |
Number of towns | 1 |
Number of Union Councils | 16 |
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 area. 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.
Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils: [5]