Mamund Tehsil ( ps, ماموند‬) is a subdivision located in

Bajaur District Bajaur District ( ps, باجوړ ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Until 2018, it was an agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, then during restructuring that merged ...

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. Mamund is the largest tehsil of district Bajaur.

History

Bajaur was declared as a subdivision of the former

Malakand Agency The Malakand Agency ( ps, ملاکنډ ایجنسيۍ) was one of the agencies in the North West Frontier Province of British India and later of Pakistan until 2010. It included the princely states of Chitral, Dir and Swat, and an area around ...

in 1960, and Mamund was established as a tehsil within the Bajaur subdivision. Bajaur was declared a Federally Administered Tribal Agency in December 1973. Mamund Subdivision joined Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on May 31, 2018 with the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. It was previously a tehsil before the

FATA Interim Governance Regulation, 2018 The FATA Interim Governance Regulation, 2018 was a law signed by the President of Pakistan on May 28, 2018, which replaces the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) and outline how the Federally Administered Tribal Areas will be governed "within a ti ...

was signed by

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. With FATA's merger to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, its status was upgraded to a subdivision.

Geography

Adjacent administrative units

* Dangam District,

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(north) * Salarzai Subdivision (northeast) *

Khar Bajaur Subdivision Khar Bajaur Tehsil is a subdivision located in Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It starts in Jar to Zorbandar (east–west) and Tangai to Inzari (northwest–southwest) and A Inayat kali to Mandalu (northeast–southeast). Main citi ...

(south) * Nawagai Subdivision (southwest) *

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, Kunar Province, Afghanistan (northwest) *

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, Kunar Province, Afghanistan (northwest)

Demographics

Mamund Subdivision has a population of 311,873 and has 35,269 households according to the 2017 census.

References

Tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Populated places in Bajaur District {{FATA-geo-stub

History

Geography

Adjacent administrative units

Demographics

See also

References