Barang Tehsil تحصیل برنگ برنګ تحصیل | |
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 Barang Tehsil (red) inBajaur District | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Region |  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Bajaur District |
| Headquarters | Maimoola |
| Population | |
• Total | 76,558 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Barang Tehsil (Pashto:تحصیل بارنګ) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) ofBajaur District inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan. Barang is the sixth largest of Bajaur District's seven tehsils.
Barang Subdivision was a part of the formerFederally Administered Tribal Areas until the region was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on May 31, 2018. It was a tehsil before theFATA Interim Governance Regulation, 2018 was signed byPresidentMamnoon Hussain. It was upgraded to a subdivision at the time FATA was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[2]
Barang Tehsil, the second smallest of seven tehsils in Bajaur District, is 159 km2 in area, encompasses a series ofmountain ravines. Located in the district's southeast corner and jutting southward, Barang Tehsil shares a 21.73 km border withMalakand District'sBatkhela Tehsil to the east, a 7.51 km border withMohmand District'sPrang Ghar Tehsil to the south, a 21.53 km border with Mohmand District'sAmbar Utmankhel Tehsil to the west, an 11.01 km border withKhar Bajaur Tehsil to the northwest, a 19.95 km border withUtman Khel Tehsil to the northeast, and a short 0.65 km border withLower Dir District'sTimergara Tehsil.
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1981 | 44,048 | — |
| 1998 | 50,139 | +0.76% |
| 2017 | 76,558 | +2.25% |
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As of the2017 Pakistani national census, Barang Tehsil has a population of 76,558 people and 10,511 households, representing a +2.24% population increase from its 1998 census population of 50,139 compared to a +3.23% population growth in the overall Bajaur District. Residents of Barang comprise 7.01% of the Bajaur District population as of 2017.[1]
The vast majority of Barang residents expectedly speakPashto as their mother tongue, the predominant language of ethnicPakhtuns (Pashtuns) and of the derivatively-namedKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK). As of 2017, 99.46% of Barang residents recorded Pashto as their mother tongue with other residents recordingUrdu (182),Brahui (63),Sindhi (26),Saraiki (22),Balochi (11),Kashmiri (10),Punjabi (7), and others (26), as mother tongues.
As of 2017, all 76,558 residents of Barang Tehsil reported belonging to the Muslim faith. Barang and Bar Chamarkand Tehsils were the only two in Bajaur to report 100% Muslim residents; four other tehsils report 99.98% to 99.99% adherence to Islam, and Khar Bajaur Tehsil, containing the district's capital, Khar, hosted 3 Christians, 37 Ahmadi, 6 belonging to caste systems, and 3 reporting 'other'.
Barang Tehsil is politically represented in theNational Assembly of Pakistan (thelower house of the nationalparliament) in theNA-8 Bajaur constituency and in theProvincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the PK-21 Bajaur-III constituency. In both bodies, Barang Tehsil (as well as Bajaur District and most ofKPK) historically elects candidates from thePakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party established by Pakistanicricketer and 22ndPrime Minister,Imran Khan, who is seen as a fierce advocate for the nation's Pakhtuns, many of whom feel disenfranchised byIslamabad.
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