Hangu District, Pakistan

From 1540 to 1893, Hangu was ruled by two prominent figures: the Malak Khails and the Khans of Hangu. The Malak Khails were centrally located in the Darsamand and Mammu regions. Historically, nomads from Afghanistan would travel southwards during the winters. However, this free movement was curtailed after the 1970s due to heightened border controls.

On 30 June 1996, Hangu District was carved out from a section of the Kohat District. The demarcation of its territory commences from the village of Khawaja Khizer (Jawzara), a point line between the Kohat and Hangu Districts. The 13th and the final Khan of Hangu was Muzaffar Khan Bangash.^{[citation needed]} Today, his descendants live in various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Hangu.^{[citation needed]}

As of the 2023 census, Hangu district has 61,148 households and a population of 528,902. The district has a sex ratio of 96.91 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 43.15%: 66.04% for males and 22.02% for females. 152,504 (29.01% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 85,727 (16.21%) live in urban areas.^[1] Pashto was the predominant language, spoken by 99.59% of the population.^[4]

Religion

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Religions in Hangu district (2023)^[5]

Religion			Percent
Islam			99.49%
Christianity			0.43%
Other or not stated			0.08%

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Religion in contemporary Hangu District

Religious group	1941[6]		2017[7]		2023[5]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Islam	55,210	88.94%	517,878	99.82%	522,967	99.49%
Hinduism	5,909	9.52%	151	0.03%	159	0.03%
Sikhism	650	1.05%	—N/a	—N/a	160	0.03%
Christianity	0	0%	543	0.10%	2,256	0.43%
Others	310	0.49%	239	0.05%	81	0.02%
Total Population	62,079	100%	518,811	100%	525,623[a]	100%
Note: 1941 census data is for Hangu tehsil of erstwhile Kohat district, which roughly corresponds to contemporary Hangu district. District and tehsil borders have changed since 1941.

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Hangu District is divided into these tehsils:

The district comprises two constituencies for the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[10] The Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) has an overwhelming majority here. NA-9 and now NA-16 have been the stronghold of the party. Maulvi Naimatullah, Syed Ifthikhar Hussain Gilani and Javed Ibrahim Piracha have won consecutively since 1985. In the 2002 elections, PML-N did not run a candidate, but in 2008, Dr. Farooq Bangash, the PML-N NA-16 Candidate, who technically could not contest elections being British Citizen, surrendered to ANP Syed Haider Ali Shah, who won marginally from Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). Basically it was Bangash's strategy to ensure a Pir Haider win. Now the majority and whole control for PTI, In Local body election PTI also gain the main power, and there is still strong opposition of JUI.^[11]

Various public and private schools and colleges exist in district of Hangu. Hangu population is near by 0.8 million people and they demand for university in 2013. Agriculture University campus was to be built in Hangu City but still the project is pending while funds transfer to Charsada University during ANP government. Recently the government degree college Hangu started a BS Hons 4-year program under Kohat University of Science and Technology.

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Dallan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Village Ibrahimzai, village known for being the home of Aitzaz Hasan in Hangu district