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Mansehra District

Mansehra District (Urdu, Hindko: ضلع مانسہرہ) is a district in the Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. Mansehra city serves as the headquarters of the district. The district has a Hindkowan majority, with a significant Pashtun and Kohistani population.

Mansehra District
ضلع مانسہرہ
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Top: Malika Parbat and Lake Saiful Muluk
Bottom: View of Besal
Mansehra District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mansehra District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DivisionHazara
RegionPakhli
HeadquartersMansehra
Government
 • TypeDistrict administration
 • Deputy CommissionerBilal Shahid Rao (BPS-18 PAS)
 • District Police OfficerZahoor Babar Afridi (BPS-19 PSP)
Area
4,579 km2 (1,768 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[1]
1,797,177
 • Density390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
154,834 (8.62%)
 • Rural
1,642,343
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Area code0997
Number of union councils59
Number of tehsils5[2]
Websitemansehra.kp.gov.pk

Mansehra was established as an independent district in 1976. It was previously a tehsil within the broader Hazara District.[3] In 1993, a former subdivision of Mansehra, Battagram, was separated as an independent district.[4] Similarly, in 2011, another subdivision of Mansehra, Kala Dhaka, was separated which is now known as Torghar District.

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 260,631—    
1961 373,975+3.68%
1972 552,842+3.62%
1981 686,308+2.43%
1998 978,157+2.11%
2017 1,555,742+2.47%
2023 1,797,177+2.43%
Sources:[5]

As of the 2023 census, Mansehra district has 294,052 households and a population of 1,797,177. The district has a sex ratio of 103.08 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 63.79%: 75.33% for males and 52.02% for females. 478,985 (26.76% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 154,834 (8.62%) live in urban areas.[1]

Religion in Mansehra District
Religion 1941[6]: 22 [a] 2017[7] 2023[8]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam   293,231 97.79% 1,555,315 99.97% 1,785,071 99.75%
Hinduism   5,431 1.81% 28 ~0% 39 ~0%
Sikhism   1,174 0.39% — — 31 ~0%
Christianity   22 0.01% 163 0.01% 3,986 0.22%
Other 0 ~0% 236 0.02% 497 0.03%
Total Population 299,858 100% 1,555,742 100% 1,789,624[b] 100%

Languages of Mansehra district (2023)[9]

  Hindko (66.22%)
  Pashto (17.97%)
  Kohistani (2.51%)
  Urdu (1.16%)
  Others (12.14%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 66.22% of the population spoke Hindko, 17.97% Pashto, 2.51% Kohistani and 1.16% Urdu as their first language.[9]

Many of these, especially in the upper Kaghan Valley, are speakers of the Kohistani dialects. There are also speakers of the widely dispersed Gujari language, particularly in the Kaghan Valley.[10] The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari (spoken in Azad Kashmir) and the western group (from Chitral, Swat and Gilgit).[11] There is also a small community in the village of Dana in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language.[12] Many people can write and speak English.[citation needed]

Constituencies

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The district is represented in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly by elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:[13]

Constituency and current member :

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

Administrative divisions

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

Mansehra District consists of six tehsils, with Tanawal Tehsil separated from the other five in December 2022.[14]

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

Provincial Assembly

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Member of Provincial Assembly Party Affiliation Constituency Year
Munir Lughmani Swati Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-36 Mansehra-I 2024
Babar Saleem Khan Swati Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-37 Mansehra-II 2024
Zahid Chanzeb Swati Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-38 Mansehra-III 2024
Ikram Ghazi Khan Tanoli Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-39 Mansehra-IV 2024
Sardar Shah Jahan Yousaf Pakistan Muslim League (N) PK-40 Mansehra-V 2024

Notable people

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Main article: List of people from Mansehra

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  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. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  6. ^ "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 10, North-West Frontier Province". 1941. p. 22. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215543. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Pakistan Census 2017 District-Wise Tables: Mansehra District". Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  8. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 9" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  9. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  10. ^ Hallberg & O'Leary 1992, p. 96.
  11. ^ Hallberg & O'Leary 1992, pp. 112–13, 135The particular variety studied was from the village of Mittikot, six kilometres west of Balakot.
  12. ^ Anjum & Rehman 2015.
  13. ^ › reports
  14. ^ "Tanawal notified as sixth tehsil of Mansehra". Dawn. 26 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  15. ^ "Kolai-Palas made district, Baffa-Pakhal tehsil". 26 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Kolai-Palas made district, Baffa-Pakhal tehsil". 26 August 2017.
  1. ^ Mansehra, Amb and Phulra tehsils of erstwhile Hazara district, which roughly corresponds to the present district.
  2. ^ Different from official population figure since it excludes sensitive areas where religion was not asked

Bibliography

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  • 1998 District census report of Batagram. Census publication. Vol. 18. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1999.
  • 1981 District census report of Mansehra. District Census Report. Vol. 23. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1983.
  • 1998 District census report of Mansehra. Census publication. Vol. 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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