Barikot is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Barikot Tehsil
تحصیل بریکوٹ بریکوټ تحصیل | |
|---|---|
  Barikot Tehsil  Barikot Tehsil | |
| Coordinates: 34°40′40″N 72°13′24″E / 34.67778°N 72.22333°E | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province |  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Swat |
| Government | |
| • Tehsil Chairman | Arshad Khan ([Awami National Party]) |
| Population | |
| • Tehsil | 184,000 |
| • Urban | 94,245 |
| • Rural | 89,755 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Swat District has seven tehsils[2] i.e. Tehsil Barikot, Tehsil Babuzai, Tehsil Matta, Tehsil Khwazakhela, Tehsil Kabal, Tehsil Charbagh and Tehsil Bahrain. Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers of Union council. There are 65 Union council in district Swat (56 rural and 09 urban).
According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013,[3] Tehsil Barikot has the following 5 Wards:[4]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
- ^ "Names of Village / Neighbourhood Councils along with seats detail of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" (PDF). gov.pk. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-13. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Village/Neighbourhood Council | Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
External links
edit- Book: Hidden Treasures of Swat, ISBN 978-969-23042-0-7
- Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower Dir and neighboring places
- United Nations
- Hajj 2014 Uploads
- PBS paiman.jsi.com Archived 2015-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
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