Mansehra District


Mansehra District is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Mansehra district and town are named after the Sikh Khalsa Army general Mahan Singh Mirpuri, who founded the city. It is an important and popular tourist destination due to the Lulusar-Dudipatsar National Park and Kaghan Valley area being located in the district and the Karakoram Highway passing through the district. It is main gateway to upper valleys of Kaghan, Naran and also to Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir.
It was established as a district in 1976, prior to which it was a tehsil within the former Hazara District. Two former subdivisions of Mansehra were split off into separate districts: Battagram in 1993, and Torghar District in 2011.

Demographics

According to 2017 census total population of the Mansehra district was 1,556,460.
The total population for the Mansehra, Balakot and Oghi tehsil counted in the 1998 census was.
The predominant language is Northern Hindko, which according to the 1981 census data for the Mansehra Tehsil was the language of communication within % of households. Pashto had a share of %. There are also speakers of the widely dispersed Gujari language, particularly in the Kaghan Valley. The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari and the western group. There is also a small community in the village of Dani in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language. Many people can write and speak Pakistani English.
Muslims dominates the district as a majority population along with minor population of Hindus and sikhs.

Constituencies

The district is represented in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly by elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:
The district is represented in the National Assembly of Pakistan by two elected MNAs who represent the following constituencies:
Mansehra District consists of Officially five tehsils.
The Kala Dhaka tehsil was separated as Torghar District in 2011.

Mansehra

Mansehra Tehsil union councils: