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.
Balakot Tehsil
تحصیل بالاکوٹ بالاکوټ تحصیل | |
|---|---|
Tehsil | |
| Area of Upper Pakhli | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Mansehra |
| Region | Upper Pakhli |
| Government | |
| • Chairman | Syed Ibrahim Ahmad (PML(N)) |
| Population (2017) | |
| • Total | 273,089 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of towns | 1 |
| Number of Union Councils | 16 |
Its population as of 2017 was 273,000. The major spoken language of the tehsil is Hindko.
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