This article is about Balakot Tehsil. For Balakot Town, see Balakot. For the village in Nepal, see Balakot, Nepal.
| Balakot | |
|---|---|
| — Tehsil — | |
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| Country |  Pakistan |
| North-West Frontier Province | |
| Mansehra | |
| Government | |
| - Nazim | Syed Junaid Ali Qasim[1] |
| - Naib Nazim | Mohammad Siddique |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
| Number of towns | 1 |
| Number of Union Councils | 16 |
Balakot Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل بالاکوٹ) is a subdivision of Mansehra District in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
Balakot is the main city of this area. It was one of the towns which was most damaged in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake on 8 October 2005 [2] and an estimated 80% of the buildings there were destroyed. Villages were badly affected and landslides cut off thousands of people from Balakot where relief workers had been helping the survivors.[3]
Administration
Balakot Tehsil consists of 16 Union Councils[4]:
See also
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