Berote Kalan
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 Birote Kalan is located in Abbottabad District |
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| Province | NWFP |
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| District | Abbottabad |
| Tehsil | Abbottabad |
| Nazim | Afaq Ahmed Abbasi[1] |
| Naib Nazim | Muhammad Sarwar Abbasi |
| Population | 26,012 |
Birote Kalan is one of the 51 Union councils of Abbottabad District in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. [2]
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[edit] Etymology
The name of the union council "Birote Kalan" means Greater Birote, this is to differentiate it from the smaller settlement of "Birote Khurd". The words Khurd and Kalan (little and big) are administrative terminology dating back to Mughal times - to differentiate two areas with the same name, hence Birote Khurd means little Khurd (cf. Britannia major, "Greater Britain" and Britannia minor "Lesser Britain").
[edit] Location
Birote Kalan is located in the south eastern part of Abbottabad District and borders the Bagh District of Kashmir and consequently was affected by the 2005 Pakistan earthquake as the epicentre was in Kashmir.
[edit] Subdivisions
The Union Council is subdivided into the following areas: Berote Kalan, Berote Khurd, Kahoo Gharbi and Kahoo Sharqi[1].
[edit] History
Mohammed Khuda Bakhsh of Mohalla Thathi of Birote who participated in World War One between 1914-18. He is great grandfather of teacher Shokat Awan and grand father-in-law of Zahoor carpenter of Birote. He died in 1996 in age of 128 years. The oldest women was Afret Jan, grandmother of Breg. (R) Musaddiq Abbasi and mother of prominent league of Circle Bakote Sadiq Abbasi, who died aged one hundred years in 1978 in Birote. Another oldest women of Birote Munsif Jan (Nickname Pairho) died in age of 110 years on 21 January 2007. She married Akbar Khan of Faqiraal Dhond Abbasi sub tribe of Tangan, Kahoo Sharqi in 1921 and was widowed in 1951.
[edit] 2005 earthquake
Mohammed Reaz, a teacher of Kahoo Sharqi, provided internet access to earthquake survivors at Rs. 20 to search names in website [3], which was below the usual rate of Rs. 100/. It is worth mentioned that ERRA official and lack of information to earthquake effects disturbed them and no one help them in this regard. People of Berote Kalan were paying happily to Teacher Mohammed Reaz. He is earning more than Rs. 1,000/= daily to people. This is first time in UC Birote a private internet facility providing to public in the first week of Jan. 2007.
[edit] Elections
In September 2006, Shamim Akhter Abbasi was unanimously re-elected as the female councillor for UC Birote following the death of Robina Mumtaz of Basian three months earlier.In election 2008 she re-elected as the female councillor.
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