Barkhan Tehsil

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Barkhan
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Province Balochistan
District Barkhan
Capital Barkhan
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)
Number of Union Councils 8

Barkhan is an administrative subdivision, (tehsil) of Barkhan District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into 8 Union Councils. [1]

A tehsil is an administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is an area of land with a city or town that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier geographical terms, such as pargana, pergunnah and thannah, used under Delhi Sultanate and the British Raj.

Barkhan District District in Balochistan, Pakistan

Barkhan (Urdu: بارکھان‎, pronunciation  is a district in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. It shares its borders with the province of Punjab to the east and the Balochistan districts of Dera Bugti to the south, Kohlu to the west, Loralai to the northwest and Musakhel to the north. The district's headquarters is the town of Barkhan. It was granted the status of a separate district on 31 December 1991, prior to which it was a tehsil within Loralai District.

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