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Balakot Tehsil
تحصیل بالاکوٹ
بالاکوټ تحصیل
Area of Upper Pakhli
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictMansehra
RegionUpper Pakhli
Government
 • ChairmanSyed Ibrahim Ahmad (PML(N))
Population
 • Total273,089
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.[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.

Administration

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Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:[5]

Notables

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References

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  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