Mansehra District

Mansehra District (

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

At the time of District the 2017 census, the district had 235,230 households and a population of 1,555,742. Mansehra had a sex ratio of 1015 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 62.56% - 75.25% for males and 50.41% for females. 144,898 (9.31%) lived in urban areas. 28.73% of the population were under 10 years of age. 427 (0.03%) people in the district were from religious minorities.^[1]

Similarly, 66.48% of the population spoke Hindko and 17.02% Pashto as their first language. 14.26% of the population spoke a language recorded as 'Others' on the census, mainly Kohistani languages.

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.^[6] The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari (spoken in Azad Kashmir) and the western group (from Chitral, Swat and Gilgit).^[7] There is also a small community in the village of Dana in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language.^[8] Many people can write and speak English.^{[citation needed]}

Constituencies

The district is represented in the

• PK-36 (Mansehra-I) , Munir Lughmani Swati
• PK-37 (Manshera-II) , Babar Saleem Swati
• PK 38 (Mansehra III) , Zahid Chanzeb Swati
• PK 39 (Mansehra IV), Ikram Ghazi Tanoli
• PK 40 (Mansehra V) , Sardar Shah Jahan

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

• NA-14 (Mansehra-I)
• NA-15 (Mansehra Torghar)

Administrative divisions

Mansehra District consists of six tehsils, with Tanawal Tehsil separated from the other five in December 2022.^[10]

• Pashto
  : بالاکوټ تحصیل‎)
• Pashto
  : مانسهره تحصیل‎)
• Pashto
  : اوګي تحصیل‎)
• Pashto: بفه پکلي تحصیل‎)^[11]
• Pashto: دربند تحصیل‎)^[12]
• Tanawal

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

Provincial Assembly

Notable people

• Khan Haji Faqeera Khan Swati — MLA of Indian National Congress from Mansehra II in 1937 Indian provincial elections, royal "Khan of Malakpur Village", maternal grandfather of Azam Swati, leader of Khudai Khidmatgar Movement in Hazara
• Jageerdar Zaman Khan Swati family
• Khan Khudadad Khan Swati, Freedom Fighter of Pakistan Independence Movement, member of All India Muslim league, former Minister of Health West Pakistan and Ex- Chief of Siran Valley.
• British India
  )
• Mahan Singh Mirpuri (famous Sikh Khalsa Army General, Mansehra derives its name from him)
• Abdul Hakeem Khan Swati (Governor KP)
• Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli (Nawab of Amb state)
• Waji-Uz-Zaman Khan (Chief of Agror )
• Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha
• Wajid Hamayun Khan (Politician)
• Abrar Ahmed Swati (Pakistani Cricketer)
• Ahmed Hussain Shah
• Azam Khan Swati (Senator and Federal Minister of Pakistan)
• Babar Saleem Swati (MPA)
• Reham Khan Swati (BBC Journalist)
• Bashir Jehangiri Swati ( Chief Justice of Pakistan)
• Chaudhry Aslam Khan
• Laiq Muhammad Swati (MPA)
• Ghulam Ghaus Hazarvi
• Ghulam Ur Rehman
• Haroon Khan Badshah
• Ibrar Hussain
• Jamal J. Elias
• Maliha Ali Asghar Khan
• Mian Zia ur Rehman
• Muhammad Raza Khan
• Muhammad Safdar Awan
• Muhammad Sajjad Awan
• Muneeb-ur-Rehman
• Qari Fayyaz-ur-Rehman Alvi
• Saleh Muhammad Khan Swati (MNA)
• Sardar Muhammad Yousuf
• Sardar Shahjahan Yousuf
• Sardar Zahoor Ahmad

See also

• Mansehra Shiva Temple
• Mansehra Tehsil
• Mansehra Airport

References

Bibliography

• 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.
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• 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.
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