Kanshian

Kanshian is a village located in Mansehra District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is a village of Union Council Garlat of tehsil Balakot to the south east of the Balakot city. It lies in the series of mountains connecting the Neelum Valley in Pakistani-held Kashmir to the Kaghan Valley.

Etymology

According to oral traditions, the word Kanshian is after the name of a person "Kansha Ram". He is said to have been the Hindu merchant who lived here in about British Period. However, there is no strong evidence for this assumption. But there are references to the existence of such a Hindu community in the region during the Sikh and British Period. This community established Hattis ہٹـی in the area.
The 1900s British Army maps mention its name as 'Kashi'

Administration

The village of Kanshian is administratively Union Council:
Garlat.