Mansehra District

Mansehra District ضلع مانسہرہ
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Top: Malika Parbat and Lake Saiful Muluk Bottom: View of Besal
Mansehra District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Division	Hazara
Region	Pakhli
Headquarters	Mansehra
Government
• Type	District administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Bilal Shahid Rao (BPS-18 PAS)
• District Police Officer	Zahoor Babar Afridi (BPS-19 PSP)
Area
• District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	4,579 km2 (1,768 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[1]
• District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	1,797,177
• Density	390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
• Urban	154,834 (8.62%)
• Rural	1,642,343
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Area code	0997
Number of union councils	59
Number of tehsils	5[2]
Website	mansehra.kp.gov.pk

Mansehra District (Urdu, Hindko: ضلع مانسہرہ) is a district in the Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. Mansehra city serves as the headquarters of the district. The district has a Hindkowan majority, with a significant Pashtun and Kohistani population.

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.

As of the 2023 census, Mansehra district has 294,052 households and a population of 1,797,177. The district has a sex ratio of 103.08 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 63.79%: 75.33% for males and 52.02% for females. 478,985 (26.76% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 154,834 (8.62%) live in urban areas.^[1]

Religion in Mansehra District

Religion	1941[6]: 22 [a]		2017[7]		2023[8]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Islam	293,231	97.79%	1,555,315	99.97%	1,785,071	99.75%
Hinduism	5,431	1.81%	28	~0%	39	~0%
Sikhism	1,174	0.39%	—	—	31	~0%
Christianity	22	0.01%	163	0.01%	3,986	0.22%
Other	0	~0%	236	0.02%	497	0.03%
Total Population	299,858	100%	1,555,742	100%	1,789,624[b]	100%

At the time of the 2023 census, 66.22% of the population spoke Hindko, 17.97% Pashto, 2.51% Kohistani and 1.16% Urdu as their first language.^[9]

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.^[10] The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari (spoken in Azad Kashmir) and the western group (from Chitral, Swat and Gilgit).^[11] There is also a small community in the village of Dana in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language.^[12] Many people can write and speak English.^{[citation needed]}

The district is represented in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly by elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:^[13]

Constituency and current member :

• 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)

Mansehra District consists of six tehsils, with Tanawal Tehsil separated from the other five in December 2022.^[14]

• Balakot (Urdu: تحصیل بالاکوٹ)
• Mansehra (Urdu: تحصیل مانسہرہ)
• Oghi (Urdu: تحصیل اوگی)
• Baffa Pakhal (Urdu: تحصیل بفہ پکھل)^[15]
• Darband (Urdu: تحصیل دربند)^[16]
• Tanawal (Urdu: تحصیل تناول)

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

• Mansehra Shiva Temple
• Mansehra Tehsil
• Mansehra Airport

• 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. ProQuest 1816873650.
• 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. ISBN 969-8023-13-5.

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