Barikot Tehsil

Barikot is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Barikot Tehsil تحصیل بریکوٹ بریکوټ تحصیل‎
Tehsil
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Coordinates: 34°40′40″N 72°13′24″E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District	Swat
Government
• Tehsil Chairman	Arshad Khan ([Awami National Party])
Population  (2017)[1]
• 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]

1. Ghalegay
2. Barikot
3. Tindodag
4. Panjigram
5. Najigram
6. Nawagai
7. Amlok Dara
8. Karakar
9. Kandak Jehangir
10. Parrai
11. Kota
12. Shamozai
13. Guratai
14. Manyar
15. Landakay
16. New kalai
17. Shingardar
18. Nagoha
19. Dedawar
20. zarakhela
21. Chungi

See also

• Pakistan portal

• Swat District

References

1. "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.
2. "Names of Village / Neighbourhood Councils along with seats detail of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" (PDF). gov.pk. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
3. "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)
4. "Village/Neighbourhood Council | Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2015-11-06.

External links

• 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