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Hangu District, Pakistan

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Hangu District
ضلع ہنگو
هنګو ولسوالۍ‎
District
Top: Mamu Khora road
Bottom: Thal Gambad Masjid
Hangu District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Hangu District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DivisionKohat
HeadquartersHangu
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerIrfan Ullah
 • District Police OfficerN/A
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • District
1,097 km2 (424 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • District
528,902
 • Density480/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
 • Urban
85,727
 • Rural
443,175
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Number of Tehsils2
Websitehangu.kp.gov.pk

Hangu District (Pashto: هنګو ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع ہنگو) is a district within the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The district takes its name from the town of Hangu, which is its administrative centre. The name Hangu may also sometimes be applied to the Miranzai Valley which is partly within the district, bordering the Samana Range.

History

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From 1540 to 1893, Hangu was ruled by two prominent figures: the Malak Khails and the Khans of Hangu. The Malak Khails were centrally located in the Darsamand and Mammu regions. Historically, nomads from Afghanistan would travel southwards during the winters. However, this free movement was curtailed after the 1970s due to heightened border controls.

On 30 June 1996, Hangu District was carved out from a section of the Kohat District. The demarcation of its territory commences from the village of Khawaja Khizer (Jawzara), a point line between the Kohat and Hangu Districts. The 13th and the final Khan of Hangu was Muzaffar Khan Bangash.[citation needed] Today, his descendants live in various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Hangu. [citation needed] Bangash is a vast tribe whose descendants are scattered around different parts of Pakistan; mostly Peshawar and other districts of KPK. They also reside in Afghanistan, from where they had originated, and in some parts of Iran and the Uttar Pradesh State of India. Some have also migrated to western countries seeking better education and improved lives.[citation needed]

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 55,167—    
1961 87,163+4.68%
1972 125,721+3.39%
1981 182,474+4.23%
1998 314,529+3.25%
2017 518,811+2.67%
2023528,902+0.32%
Sources:[2]

As of the 2023 census, Hangu district has 61,148 households and a population of 528,902. The district has a sex ratio of 96.91 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 43.15%: 66.04% for males and 22.02% for females. 152,504 (29.01% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 85,727 (16.21%) live in urban areas.[1] Pashto was the predominant language, spoken by 99.59% of the population.[3]

Religion

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Religions in Hangu district (2023)[4]
Religion Percent
Islam
 
 99.49%
Christianity
 
 0.43%
Other or not stated
 
 0.08%
Religion in Hangu District
1941[5][a] 2017[6] 2023[4]
Religion Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam 55,210 88.94% 517,878 99.82% 522,967 99.49%
Hinduism 5,909 9.52% 151 0.03% 159 0.03%
Sikhism 650 1.05% — — 160 0.03%
Christianity 0 0% 543 0.10% 2,256 0.43%
Others 310 0.49% 239 0.05% 81 0.02%
Total Population 62,079 100% 518,811 100% 525,623[b] 100%

Administrative divisions

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Hangu District is divided into two tehsils:

Villages

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Constituencies

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The district comprises two constituencies for the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[7] The Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) has an overwhelming majority here. NA-9 and now NA-16 have been the stronghold of the party. Maulvi Naimatullah, Syed Ifthikhar Hussain Gilani and Javed Ibrahim Piracha have won consecutively since 1985. In the 2002 elections, PML-N did not run a candidate, but in 2008, Dr. Farooq Bangash, the PML-N NA-16 Candidate, who technically could not contest elections being British Citizen, surrendered to ANP Syed Haider Ali Shah, who won marginally from Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). Basically it was Bangash's strategy to ensure a Pir Haider win. Now the majority and whole control for PTI, In Local body election PTI also gain the main power, and there is still strong opposition of JUI.[8]

National Assembly

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This district is represented by one elected MNA (Member of National Assembly) in Pakistan National Assembly. Its constituency is NA-16.[9] Since 2002: NA-16 (Hangu)

Election Member Party
2002 Akhunzada Muhammad Sadiq MMA
2008 Haider Ali Shah ANP
2013 Khayal Zaman Orakzai PTI
2018 Khayal Zaman Orakzai PTI
2022 Nadeem Khayal PTI

Provincial Assembly

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Member of Provincial Assembly Party affiliation Constituency Year
Shah Faisal Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Hangu-I 2018
Muhammad Zahoor Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Hangu-II 2018

Education

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Various public and private schools and colleges exist in district of Hangu. Hangu population is near by 0.8 million people and they demand for university in 2013. Agriculture University campus was to be built in Hangu City but still the project is pending while funds transfer to Charsada University during ANP government. Recently the government degree college Hangu started a BS Hons 4-year program under Kohat University of Science and Technology.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  3. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  4. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 9" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  5. ^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME X NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE". Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Pakistan Census 2017 District-Wise Tables: Hangu". Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  7. ^ "Hangu". Provincial Assembly of NWFP. Retrieved 2009-01-11. [dead link‍]
  8. ^ "National Assembly 272 Constituencies Profiles Election Pakistan". Election Pakistan. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  9. ^ "Election Commission of Pakistan". Archived from the original on 2015-11-10. Retrieved 2017-11-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  1. ^ Hangu tehsil of erstwhile Kohat district, which roughly corresponds to the present district. District and tehsil borders have shifted since 1941.
  2. ^ Different from official population figure since it excludes sensitive areas where religion was not asked

Further reading

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