Barikot is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Swat District has seven tehsils i.e. Tehsil Barikot, Tehsil Babuzai, Tehsil Matta, Tehsil Khwazakhela, Tehsil Kabal, Tehsil Charbagh and Tehsil Bahrain. Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers of Union council. There are 65 Union council in district Swat (56 rural and 09 urban).

According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013, Tehsil Barikot has the following 5 Wards:

  1. Ghalegay
  2. Barikot
  3. Tindodag
  4. Panjigram
  5. Najigram
  6. Nawagai
  7. Amlok Dara
  8. Karakar
  9. Kandak Jehangir
  10. Parrai
  11. Kota
  12. Shamozai
  13. Guratai
  14. Manyar
  15. Landakay
  16. New kalai
  17. Shingardar
  18. Nagoha
  19. Dedawar
  20. zarakhela
  21. Chungi

See also

  • Swat District

References

External links

  • Book: Hidden Treasures of Swat, ISBN 978-969-23042-0-7
  • Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower Dir and neighboring places
  • United Nations
  • Hajj 2014 Uploads
  • PBS paiman.jsi.com Archived 2015-01-22 at the Wayback Machine



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