Hazara District
Hazara District was a district of Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It existed until 1976, when it was split into the districts of Abbottabad and Mansehra, with the new district of Haripur subsequently splitting off from Abbottabad, and Battagram and Torghar – from Mansehra.
History
Hazara district was annexed by the British from its former Sikh rulers after the Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1848–1849. In 1853 the district came under the charge of General John Becher for six years - his biographer described the district as “the wildest” in the Punjab.In the 1871 census of India the population of Hazara District was recorded as 367,218. In the 1901 census of India the total population was recorded as 560,288 and in the 1911 census of India, the total population was recorded as 603,028 fifty years later in the 1961 census of Pakistan, the total population was recorded as 1,050,374 of which 535,078 were male and 515,296.