Kalkot Tehsil

Kalkot Tehsil
تحصیل کالکوٹ
Tehsil
Country Pakistan
ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictUpper Dir
Government
 • ChairmanZia Ur Rahman (JI)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)

Kalkot (Gawri and Urdu: کالکوٹ) is a Tehsil of Upper Dir District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The main town, also known as Kalkot, is mainly inhabited by the Gawri and Kalkoti-speakers.[1]

Upper Dir is administratively subdivided into six tehsils which contain a total of 28 Union Councils. Upper Dir is represented in the National Assembly and Provincial Assembly by one elected MNA and three elected MPAs respectively.

See also

References

  1. ^ Baart, Joan L.G.; Sagar, Muhammad Zaman (2002). "The Gawri Language of Kalam and Dir Kohistan". Semantic Scholar.


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