Bar Chamarkand Tehsil
Bar Chamarkand Subdivision was part of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas until the region was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on May 31, 2018.It was previously a tehsil before the FATA Interim Governance Regulation, 2018 was signed by President Mamnoon Hussain.[2] Bar Chamarkand, the smallest of seven tehsils in Bajaur District, is only 13 km2 in area and encompasses the upper half of a single, relatively small mountain valley.The vast majority of Bar Chamarkand residents expectedly speak Pashto as their mother tongue, the predominant language of ethnic Pakhtuns (Pashtuns) and of the derivatively-named Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK).In both bodies, Bar Chamarkand Tehsil (as well as Bajaur District and most of KPK) historically elects candidates from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party established by Pakistani cricketer and 22nd Prime Minister, Imran Khan, who is seen as a fierce advocate for the nation's Pakhtuns, many of whom feel disenfranchised by Islamabad.