Khyber Pakhtoonkha Provincial government

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District map of Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas.


Main article: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is unicameral and consists of 124 seats of which 2% are reserved for non-Muslims and 17% for women only.
The President of Pakistan appoints a Governor as head of the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There is a directly-elected Provincial Assembly, which has 124 elected members (including 22 seats reserved for women and 3 seats for non-Muslims). The Provincial Assembly elects a Chief Minister to act as the chief executive of the province, assisted by a cabinet of ministers.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is divided into 24 districts, comprising 18 Settled Area Districts and 6 Provincially Administered Tribal Area (PATA) Districts. The administration of the PATA districts is vested in the President of Pakistan and the Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, by Articles 246 and 247 of the Constitution of Pakistan.

The 24 districts are:
  • Abbottabad
  • Bannu
  • Batagram
  • Buner
  • Charsadda
  • Chitral
  • Dera Ismail Khan
  • Dir Upper
  • Dir Lower
  • Hangu
  • Haripur
  • Karak
  • Kohat
  • Kohistan
  • Lakki Marwat
  • Malakand
  • Mansehra
  • Mardan
  • Nowshera
  • Peshawar
  • Swabi
  • Swat
  • Shangla
  • Tank
 

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