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Balakot (tehsil)

Balakot
Tehsil
Mansehra District SubDiv.svg
Country  Pakistan
Province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
District Mansehra
Government
 • Assistant Commissioner Muhammad Ali Asghar (P.A.S.)
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 Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 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 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.

Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:



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