Haripur District

Haripur ہری پور
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Top: Khanpur Dam Bottom: Buddhist remains at Badalpur
Location of Haripur District (highlighted in red).
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Division	Hazara
Headquarters	Haripur
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	N/A
• District Police Officer	N/A
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• Total	1,725 km2 (666 sq mi)
Population  (2017)
• Total	1,001,515
• Density	580/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Number of Tehsils	3
languages	Hindko • Pashto • Urdu
Website	haripur.kp.gov.pk

Haripur District (Hindko, Urdu: ضلع ہری پور) is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Before becoming a district in 1991, Haripur had the status of a tehsil in Abbottabad District. It's headquarters is the city of Haripur.

Geography

Boundaries of Haripur

Geographically, the district borders Abbottabad District to the northeast, Mansehra District in the northeast, the Punjab to the southeast, the Buner to the northwest and Swabi to the west. The Federal Capital of Islamabad is adjacent to the district in the south.

Demographics

At the time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 1,001,515, of which 498,202 were males and 503,266 females. Rural population was 868,415 (86.71%) while the urban population was 133,100 (13.29%). 1,193 people in the district were from religious minorities, mainly Christians.

At the time of the 2017 census, 80.84% of the population spoke Hindko, 11.84% Pashto, 1.83% Urdu and 1.51% Punjabi as their first language.

The literacy rate in the Haripur district is 72.21%, substantially higher than the literacy rate in the region of Hazara, which is 35.2%. The female literacy rate is only 61.08% compared to male literacy of 83.07%, and urban literacy rate of 82.34% is higher than the rural rate of 70.59%.

Administration

The district of Haripur was a tehsil (sub-division) of the Abbottabad District until 1992, when it became a district. Currently, Haripur District is divided into three Tehsils, Haripur Tehsil, Khanpur Tehsil, and Ghazi Tehsil.

Provincial Assembly

Member of Provincial Assembly	Party Affiliation	Constituency	Year
Akbar Ayub Khan	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf	PK-40 Haripur-I	2018
Arshad Ayub Khan	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf	PK-41 Haripur-II	2018
Faisal Zaman	Independent	PK-42 Haripur-III	2018

Education

Haripur District has two government-funded postgraduate colleges, providing higher-level education, as well as four-degree colleges for women. The Haripur University was established in 2012, first in March 2008 as a Haripur campus of Hazara University. The campus was upgraded to full-fledged University of Haripur (UOH) in 2012 by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In addition, the project of Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology has also been continuing since 2017 in Mang at Khanpur road.

See also

• State of Amb
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Khan Zabardast Khan
• Tareen tribe

Further reading

• Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, ed (2009). Alexander the Great: A New History. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-1-4051-3082-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=jbaPwpvt8ZQC&q=callisthenes%20of%20olynthus%20conspiracy&pg=PA46
• Tripathi (1999). History of Ancient India. Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. pp. 118–121. ISBN 978-81-208-0018-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=WbrcVcT-GbUC
• Narain, pp. 155–165
• Curtius in McCrindle, Op cit, p 192, J. W. McCrindle; History of Punjab, Vol I, 1997, p 229, Punajbi University, Patiala, (Editors): Fauja Singh, L. M. Joshi; Kambojas Through the Ages, 2005, p 134, Kirpal Singh.