Balakot Tehsil ( ur, ) is an administrative subdivision (

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administ ...

) of

Mansehra District Mansehra District is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was established as a district in 1976, prior to which it was a tehsil within the former Hazara District. Two former subdivisions of Mansehra we ...

in the

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

province of Pakistan.

Balakot Balakot (; ur, ; ) is a town in Mansehra District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The town was destroyed during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, but was later rebuilt with the assistance of the Government of Pakistan and Saudi P ...

is the main city of this area. It was one of the towns which was most damaged in the

2005 Kashmir earthquake The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at on 8 October in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Indian-administered Jammu an ...

on 8 October 2005 and an estimated 80% of the buildings there were 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 . The major spoken language of the tehsil is Hindko.

Administration

Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan
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Garhi Habibullah Garhi may refer to several places: * Garhi Abdullakhan * Garhi Daulatzai * Garhi Dupatta * Garhi Habibullah * Garhi Harsaru * Garhi Ismail Zai * Garhi Khuda Bakhsh * Garhi Matani * Garhi Pukhta * Garhi Shahu * Garhi Sher Ahmed * Garhi Yas ...

* Garlat * Ghanool * Hangrai * Kaghan * Karnol * Kewai * Mahandri * Satbani * Shohal Mazullah * Talhata

References

Mansehra District {{Mansehra-geo-stub