Balakot Tehsil
Balakot Tehsil is an administrative subdivision of Mansehra District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Balakot is the main city of the tehsil. 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.
Its population as of 2017 was, the main language of the tehsil is Hindko.
Administration
Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:- Attershisha
- Balakot
- Garhi Habibullah Khan
- Garlat
- Ghanool
- Hangrai
- Kaghan
- Karnol
- Kiwai
- Mahandri
- Satbani
- Shohal Mazullah
- Talhataa
Notables
- Khan Wasil Khan Swati
- Jageerdar Lal Khan Swati
- Haji Rustam Khan Swati
- Shams Khan Lughmani Swati
- Mazullah Khan Lughmani Swati
- Syed Qasim Shah
- Syed Ahmed Hussain Shah
- Haji Saleem Khan Dhodyari Swati
- Haider Khan Bejori Swati
- Mian Wali Ur Rehman
- Munir Lughmani Swati
- Babar Naseem Khankhel Swati
- Mian Zia Ur Rehman
- Wajid Hamayun Khan Swati