Berote Kalan
Birote Kalan is one of the 51 union councils of Abbottabad District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.Union Council in
Pakistan
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As part of the local government reforms of 2000, Berote Khurd lost the status of Union Council and was merged into Berote Kalan.
Etymology
The name of the union council "Birote or Berote Khurd" means lesser Birote, differentiating it from the larger settlement of "Birote Kalan". The words
Khurd and Kalan Khurd and Kalan (Hindi: ख़ुर्द और कलाँ, خرد اور کلاں Punjabi: ਖ਼ੁਰਦ ਅਤੇ ਕਲਾਂ, خرد اتے کلاں) are administrative designations used in India and Pakistan to indicate the smaller (Khu ...
(little and big) are administrative terminology dating back to Mughal times – to differentiate two areas with the same name, hence Birote Khurd means little birote (cf. Britannia major, "Greater Britain" and Britannia minor "Lesser Britain").
Geography
Berote Khurd is located in the east part of
Abbottabad District
Abbottabad District () is a district of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is part of Hazara Division and covers an area of 1,969 km2, with the city of Abbottabad being the principal town. Neighbouring districts are Mansehra to ...
in the
North West Frontier Province
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. To the east is the Birote Kallan and Kashmir region and in the west Nathiagalli areas, to the south is Pluck and to the north is the Bakot area. Birote Khurd lies in the foothills of famous Mushkpuri peaks of the Galyat Region.
Demographics
It has a population of 2,500. The main tribes of Berote Khurd are the Thadyabal, Mojwal, Nakodraal, Lahral (a sub tribe of the
Dhond Abbasi
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). Others tribes are
Awans
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On January 1, 2006, Awans had a total population of 8,696. The total area is 27.16 km² which gives a population density of 320 inhabitants per k ...
,
Gujjars
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, Seyeds,
Pathans
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, and Qureshis.
Main settlements
The main wards of Berote, Khurd are (with notable residents):
*Nakkar Kutbal - Imtiaz Hussain Abbasi, MD., Shahzad Abbasi, Zeeshan Arshad S/O Arshad Hussain
* Lahoor - Rustam Abbasi
* Mohra - Qazi Muhammad Sajawal, Fazal Rahim Abbasi, Naib Nazim Sarwar Abbasi, Nawaz Abbasi (late), and Zafeer Abbasi
* Nakar Mojwal - Muhammad Almas Abbasi, Yasir Abbasi, Shakir Abbasi, Sardar Hanif Abbasi, Siddique Abbasi, Zaheer Abbasi, Abiq Abbasi, Haji Khadim Abbasi, Wajid Abbasi, Ismdad Abbasi, Ziyab Abbasi, Arshad Abbasi, Allah Ditta Abbasi
* Rialiy - Farooq Abbasi, Waqas Qudoos Abbasi
* Batala
* Hotrari/Hotrary - Haji Muhammad Khushid Abbasi, Haji Muhammad Iqbal Abbasi, Hafiz Munib Abbasi, Amir Abbasi, Zakeer Abbasi, Asim Iqbal, Muhammad Bilal Baseer Abbasi
* Mawan Di Hill Mumtaz Abbasi (late), Shafeeq Abbasi
* Soi Nakheter - Waheed Anwar Abbasi, Nadeem Zareen Abbasi
* Moori - Zafeer Brothers
* Poora - Mushtaq Abbasi
* Sangrerhi - Haneef Abbasi, Khurshid Hotrari, Sauod Mahmood
* Toopa- Haqeeq Abbasi
* Nari Hoter - Iftekhar Abbasi, Sadaqat Abbasi
* Hotrol - Mohsin Imdad, Sajjad Abbasi, Shahbaz Abbasi
* Bhan - Rahimdad Abbasi, Tikka Khan Abbasi
* Khrindi - Shabbir Abbasi, Nawaz Abbasi
* Kali Kandal - Suleman Hussain, Sharif Khan
Transport
The Qazi Sajawal road from Basian/Abbasian Hotrari Chowk to BHU Mohra road (7-KM) connects Swargali- Boi highway (a junction on the main Abbottabad-Murree Road), and the Hadhrat Molana Pir Fakir-u-llah Bakoti Road from
Bakot
Bakot is a union council and town of Abbottabad District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan
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provide transportation links to Birote Khurd. Peer Azhar Bakoti road connects Hotrati Chowk to Bakote Via Hotrari, Hotrol, Bhan. Mumtaz Abbasi connects Hotrari to Moori via Mawan Di Hill.
A lift from Hotrari Chowk to Hotrari opened in 2004 stretching . Another
cable car Cable car most commonly refers to the following cable transportation systems:
* Aerial lift, such as aerial tramways and gondola lifts, in which the vehicle is suspended in the air from a cable
** Aerial tramway
** Chairlift
** Gondola lift
*** Bi ...
connects Birote Klan to Nakker Qutbal and then Nakker Qutbal to Mohra (Lammi joo). This cable car crosses Knair and Kasss streams.
History
This area was a market for Birote Khurd people in winter in the 20th century, but this tradition died out. Water mills vanished during the 1970s, from Gandran ni Dheri, lower Naker Qutbal.