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Battagram District

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Country
  
Pakistan

Established
  
July 1993

Zip/Postal Code
  
21040

Area
  
1,301 km²

Province
  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Capital
  
Battagram

Time zone
  
PST (UTC5)

Number of Tehsils
  
2

Elevation
  
1,038 m

Area code
  
0997


Battagram (Urdu: ضلع بٹگرام; Pashto: ضلع بټګرام) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It has a total land area of 1301 square kilometres. Battagram obtained the status of district in July 1993 when it was upgraded from a Tehsil and separated from Mansehra District. The population counted in the 1998 census was 307,000. The predominant language is Pashto, which according to the census of 1981 was the language of communication within 84% of households, whereas Hindko accounted for 3.6%.

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Map of Battagram District, Pakistan

Administration

The district has geographical borders with the districts of Kohistan to the north, Mansehra to the east and southeast, Torghar to the south and Shangla to the west. The district consists of two sub-divisions or Tehsils, containing 20 in total. Union Councils:

The district is represented in the provincial assembly by two MPAs from its constituencies PF-59 (Battagram-1) and PF-60 (Battagram-2).

Earthquake 2005

Battagram was one of the areas affected by the Pakistan earthquake of October 8, 2005 when more than 4,500 people were killed and approximately 35,000 were injured. Many residents of the area were rendered homeless and without shelter. Since October 8, 2005, the NGOs and the governmental organization Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority have been engaged in reconstruction work but as of 2009, the reconstruction work is not completed. In some cases residents have rebuilt houses themselves.

References

Battagram District Wikipedia