Kolai-Palas Kohistan District

Kolai-Palas Kohistan District () is a district in the Hazara Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It was a sub-division of the Kohistan district within the Hazara division till it attained the status of a separate district in 2017.

History Kolai-Pallas was carved as a district out of Lower Kohistan District by upgrading the old Pallas sub-division in 2017. On 31 May 2018, Battera Kolai was carved out of Pallas tehsil making two tehsils in total for Kolai-Pallas.

Demographics

Population The population estimate for the district in 2021 was 275,461Khyber Pakhtunkhwa open data portal and as of the 2023 census, Kolai-Palas district has 33,983 households and a population of 280,162. The district has a sex ratio of 103.65 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 18.80%: 24.24% for males and 13.14% for females. 102,642 (43.36% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. The entire population lives in rural areas, from 1981 to 2023 the population increased by approximately 227%, this is an average increase of 1.95% per annum.

Language

As of the 2023 census, 85.19% of the population identified their language as Kohistani, 7.75% Shina and 2.81% Pashto as their first language. 4.03% of the population speaks languages classified as 'Others'. However the designation Kohistani is applied equally to different unrelated languages in the region, including the Kohistani Shina (a Shina dialect), mainly spoken in the eastern side of the Indus River which include Kolai-Palas, and Indus Kohistani, mainly spoken in the western side of the Indus River. Speakers of Kohistani Shina commonly selected Kohistani as a single census option. Total 5 languages spoken in the district including Gujari. As per 2023 estimates by Tablue Public in Kolai Palas District Gujari along with Kohistani is spoken by 68.50% of the population. Urdu is spoken by 0.31%.

Religion 787 (0.33% of the surveyed population) people in the district are from religious minorities, mainly Christians.

Administrative Units The district currently has two Tehsils:

TehsilName (Urdu)Area (km²)Pop. (2023)Density (ppl/km²)

(2023)Literacy rate (2023)Bataira / Kolai()170142,660839.1815.93%Palas()1,240137,502110.8923.08% The district is divided into 13 Wards (previously known as Union Councils), and 52 village councils.

Provincial Assembly Member of Provincial Assembly Party affiliation Constituency Year Sardar Mohammad Riaz Independent PK-33 Kolai Palas2024

Kolai-Palas Kohistan District

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