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Kihari is a populated place in the Union Council of
Sirikot Sirikot is a village in Haripur District and Ghazi Tehsil, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province at 34°10'60N 73°43'50E. It is the principal settlement of the Union Council.North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010. It was established on 9 November ...
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Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
. Kihari is about from Sirikot village and about from
Tarbela Tarbela () or Torbela () is one of the 44 union councils, administrative subdivision, of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name comes from the words ''tor'' (Pashto for "black") and ''bela'' (Punjabi/Hindko for " ...
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Chooi Kihari is in a mountainous area west of
Haripur District Haripur District (Hindko, ) is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Before obtaining the status of a district in 1991, Haripur was a tehsil of Abbottabad District Its headquarters are the city of Haripur. Accor ...
west of the
Tarbela Dam Tarbela Dam (, ) is an embankment dam, earth-filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is mainly located in Haripur Tehsil. It is about from the city of Topi, Pakistan, Swabi KPK, northwest of Isla ...
. The majority of the population of is
Hindko Hindko (, , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken by several million people of various ethnic backgrounds in northwestern Pakistan, primarily in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern Pun ...
speaking, from the Tanoli
Gujjar The Gurjar (or Gujjar, Gujar, Gurjara) are an agricultural ethnic community, residing mainly in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, divided internally into various clan groups. They were traditionally involved in agriculture, pastoral and nomadic ...
and
Awan Awan may refer to: * Awan (surname), including a list of people with the name *Awana, also known as Awan is a clan of Gujjars in South Asia * Awan (tribe), a social group of Pakistan * Awan dynasty, an Elamite dynasty of Iran * Awan languages, ...
groups. Some speak
Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...
as their mother tongue.


Other villages close to Kihari

Choi, Mani, Nadi Kihari, Osmān Māni, Dorah, Bail' Garhan, Gallai, Damrah, Darrah, Chola, K. Gali, Shiftalo Shareef, Chountrai, Batgram, and others.


Noted residents

;Politicians *
Pir Sabir Shah Syed Muhammad Sabir Shah or more commonly as Pir Sabir Shah is a politician from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. He served as the 18th Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister of the province from 20 O ...
- ex-Chief minister NWFP * Pir Hamid Shah - Union Council Nazim {{coord, 34, 05, N, 72, 48, E, display=title, region:PK_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Populated places in Haripur District