Bara Tehsil

Bara Tehsil (Urdu: باڑہ) is a subdivision located in Khyber District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Bara تحصیل باڑہ باړه تحصیل‎
Tehsil
Location of Bara Tehsil in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Country	Pakistan
Region	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District	Khyber District
Headquarters	Bara
Government [1][2]
• Chairman	Mufti Muhammad Kafeel (JUI(F))
• Assistance Political Agent	Ismatullah Wazir
Population  (2017)[3]
• Total	444,403
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Geography

Adjacent administrative units

• Nazyan District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (north)
• Landi Kotal Tehsil (north)
• Jamrud Tehsil (northeast)
• Peshawar Tehsil, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (east)
• Frontier Region Kohat (southeast)
• Lower Orakzai Tehsil, Orakzai Agency (south)
• Central Orakzai Tehsil, Orakzai Agency (south)
• Upper Orakzai Tehsil, Orakzai Agency (southwest)
• Central Kurram Tehsil, Kurram Agency (west)
• Haska Meyna District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (northwest)
• Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (northwest)

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1972	242,315	—
1981	142,501	−41.2%
1998	286,184	+100.8%
2017	444,403	+55.3%
[4][3]

Bara Tehsil has a population of 444,403 and has 51,869 households according to the 2017 census.^[3]

Education

There are about 400 schools and colleges in Bara Tehsil. A total of 102 schools have been destroyed during a ten-year-long period of militancy in the region, and around 64,000 students have abandoned education.^[5]

Transportation

Bara Tehsil is linked to Peshawar by the Peshawar-Bara road. Peshawar-Bara road was closed from 2009 to 2013 in an operation to contain growing militancy.^[6]

See also

• List of tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Bara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Bara Rifles