Administrative units of Pakistan

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The Subdivisions of Pakistan contain four provinces and two territories. Also the part of Kashmir that is administered by Pakistan is divided into two separate areas.

Local Governments

The provinces of Pakistan are divided into a total of 105 Zillahs (Urdu: ضلع) (districts). A zillah is further subdivided into tehsils (Urdu: تحصیل) (roughly the same as counties). Tehsils are used in all provinces except in Sindh province where the word taluka (Urdu: تعلقه) is used instead. Tehsils may contain villages or towns and cities. There are over five thousand local governments in Pakistan. Since 2001, these have been led by democratically elected local councils, each headed by a Nazim (the word means "supervisor" in Urdu, but is sometimes translated as mayor). Women have been allotted a minimum of 33% seats in these councils; there is no upper limit to the number of women in these councils.

History

Main page: Former subdivisions of Pakistan

In the 1960s, Pakistan was simply divided into two "units" these were East Pakistan and West Pakistan. Shortly before East Pakistan became independent as Bangladesh, West Pakistan reverted to a system with four provinces. The provinces consisted of subunits called "divisions", which were further subdivided into districts, tehsils, and villages or municipalities.

In August 2000, Pervez Musharraf's local government reforms abolished the "division" as an administrative tier. A system of local government councils was established, with the first elections being held in 2001. Since then Pakistan has had greatly changed the local government system. The government had a plan to allow devolution. This plan according to the government "follows the principle of subsidiarity, whereby all functions that can be effectively performed at the local level are transferred to that level."

This means mean that decisions are made locally by people who live in the area and not in far away cities.

Provinces and territories

Provinces:

1. Balochistan
2. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
3. Punjab
4. Sindh

Territories:

5. Islamabad Capital Territory
6. Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan

Pakistani Kashmir region:

7. Azad Jammu and Kashmir
8. Gilgit-Baltistan

Related pages

• Districts of Pakistan

Other webpages

• Government of Azad Kashmir
• Government of Balochistan
• Government of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
• Government of the Islamabad Capital Territory
• Government of the Northern Areas
• Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Government of the Punjab
• Government of Sindh
• Decentralization Support Program
• National Reconstruction Bureau