Mansehra District

Mansehra District (Pashto: مانسهره ولسوالۍ‎, Urdu: ضلع مانسہرہ‎) is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is main gateway to upper valleys of Kaghan, Naran and also to Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir.

Mansehra District
ضلع مانسہرہ
District
Clockwise from top:
 Mansehra Shiva Temple before renovation, Makra Peak
Location of Mansehra District (including Torghar District) within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa prior to 2011
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
HeadquartersMansehra
Government
 • Chief CommissionerN/A
 • Deputy CommissionerN/A
Area
 • Total4,579 km2 (1,768 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total1,556,460
 • Density340/km2 (880/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Area code(s)0997
Number of union councils59
Number of tehsils5[2]

It was established as a district in 1976, prior to which it was a tehsil within the former Hazara District.[3] Two former subdivisions of Mansehra were split off into separate districts: Battagram in 1993,[4] and Torghar District (formerly known as Kala Dhaka) in 2011.

Demographics

According to 2017 census total population of the Mansehra district was 1,556,460.[5] The total population for the Mansehra, Balakot and Oghi tehsil counted in the 1998 census was 978,200.[6]

The predominant language is Northern Hindko, which according to the 1981 census data for the Mansehra Tehsil was the language of communication within 72% of households. Pashto had a share of 14%.[7] There are also speakers of the widely dispersed Gujari language, particularly in the Kaghan Valley.[8] The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari (spoken in Azad Kashmir) and the western group (from Chitral, Swat and Gilgit).[9] There is also a small community in the village of Dana in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language.[10] Many people can write and speak Pakistani English.

Constituencies

The district is represented in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly by elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:[11]

The district is represented in the National Assembly of Pakistan by two elected MNAs who represent the following constituencies:

Administrative divisions
Administrative subdivisions of Mansehra District plus district Kala Dhaka (Torghar)

Mansehra District consists of Officially five tehsils.[12]

The Kala Dhaka tehsil was separated as Torghar District in 2011.

Mansehra

Mansehra Tehsil union councils:

Provincial Assembly
Member of Provincial AssemblyParty AffiliationConstituencyYear
Syed Ahmed Hussain ShahPakistan Tehreek-e-InsafPK-30 Mansehra-I2018
Babar Saleem SwatiPakistan Tehreek-e-InsafPK-30 Mansehra-II2018
Muhammad NaeemPakistan Muslim League (N)PK-30 Mansehra-III2018
Nawabzada Farid SalahuddinPakistan Tehreek-e-InsafPK-30 Mansehra-IV2018
Sardar Muhammad Yousaf ZamanPakistan Muslim League (N)PK-30 Mansehra-V2018

Notable people
Main article: List of people from Mansehra

See also

References
  1. "DISTRICT WISE CENSUS RESULTS CENSUS 2017" (PDF). www.pbs.gov.pk.
  2. "Kolai-Palas made district, Baffa-Pakhal tehsil". 26 August 2017.
  3. Census report of Mansehra 1998, p. 1.
  4. Census report of Batagram 1998, p. 18.
  5. http://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/DISTRICT_WISE_CENSUS_RESULTS_CENSUS_2017.pdf
  6. Census report of Mansehra 1998, p. 96.
  7. Census report of Mansehra 1981, p. 73.
  8. Hallberg & O'Leary 1992, p. 96.
  9. Hallberg & O'Leary 1992, pp. 112–13, 135The particular variety studied was from the village of Mittikot, six kilometres west of Balakot.
  10. Anjum & Rehman 2015.
  11. › reports
  12. "List of tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa".
  13. "Kolai-Palas made district, Baffa-Pakhal tehsil". 26 August 2017.
  14. "Kolai-Palas made district, Baffa-Pakhal tehsil". 26 August 2017.

Bibliography
  • 1998 District census report of Batagram. Census publication. 18. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1999.
  • 1981 District census report of Mansehra. District Census Report. 23. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1983.
  • 1998 District census report of Mansehra. Census publication. 62. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
  • Anjum, Uzma; Rehman, Khawaja (2015). "A First Look at Mankiyali Language: An Endangered Language". Journal of Asian Civilizations. 38 (1): 177–90. ProQuest 1816873650.
  • Hallberg, Calinda E.; O'Leary, Clare F. (1992). "Dialect Variation and Multilingualism among Gujars of Pakistan". In O'Leary, Clare F.; Rensch, Calvin R.; Hallberg, Calinda E. (eds.). Hindko and Gujari. Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 91–196. ISBN 969-8023-13-5.

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