Palak is one of the 51 union councils

Union Councils of Pakistan

A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...

 of Abbottabad District

Abbottabad District

Abbottabad is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The district covers an area of 1,969 km with the city of Abbottabad being the principal town...

 in the Hazara  province of Pakistan

Pakistan

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Location

Palak is located in the South eastern edge of Abbottabad district (and hence also the south eastern tip of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa soon will be in Subha Hazara). It forms part of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's border with Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

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 province and Kashmir

Kashmir

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, India

India

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, and it also borders the following Union Councils within Abbottabad district, Seer Gharbi

Seer Gharbi

Seer Gharbi,, is one of the 51 union councils of Abbottabad District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located in the southeastern part of the province, bordering the Rawalpindi District of Punjab province ....

 to the west, Nathiagali to the North and Malkot

Malkot

Malkot is a village of Abbottabad District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Until the local government reforms of 2000 it was a Union Councils of the district...

 to the north west.

Palak is the gateway of District Abbottabad because a gali Barian is a border of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab and Union Council Palak is started from Barian.

Subdivisions

Palak is the largest union council of the Circle Bakote area - as part of the local government reforms of 2000 Malkot

Malkot

Malkot is a village of Abbottabad District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Until the local government reforms of 2000 it was a Union Councils of the district...

 Union Council was merged into Palak.

Palak UC is subdivided into the following areas:
Arwar, Darwaza Ayubia

Darwaza Ayubia

Darwaza is a village near Ayubia, situated in the Palak Union Council of the Abbottabad District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population of Darwaza is about 5000.-Bantan:...

, Kala Bon, Longal, Malkot, Palak, Riala (Riyala) and Soorjal (Surajaal).

Other villages are

• Kushi Kot

Demographics

The total population of the union council is almost 5,000. The main tribes of Palak are the Dhond Abbasi

Dhond Abbasi

The Dhund Abbasi are a tribe of northern Pakistan. The tribe claims descent from Dhond Khan and ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib and hence are known as Dhund Abbasi. The tribe speak the Dhundi-Kairali dialect...

, Gujjars and Satti

Satti

The Satti is a Rajput tribe of Punjab, India/Pakistan. They are one of the main tribes of India and Pakistan Rawalpindi District.-Religion:...

s.

Schools

The first Primary Vernacular Boys School had founded in Reala in 1900 and had to be transferred to Birote because of no student availability. Palak has two high schools for boys and one middle school for girls.

Politics

Abdul Rehman Khan Abbasi is a well known businessman and political leader of area. He also contested in general election 2002. The king Maker has credited within his account the success in Nazim election and faliure of former CM to win even his own polling station.
Haji Abdul Razaaq Abbasi was elected as Nazim

Nazim

A nazim is the coordinator of cities and towns in Pakistan. Nazim is the title in Urdu of the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council....

 of UC Palak by defeating his opponent who was supported by Sardar Mehtab. Haji Abbasi scored the highest number of votes throughout Abbottabad District and has now become a very famous politician in the district.

Sultan Mehmood Abbasi of Khushi Kot UC Palak was the first student leader of PSF in H-9 college Islamabad, he was arrested in 1980 for protesting against military ruler Zia ul Haq.

Mehtab Ahmed Khan who was elected as a Member of Provincial Assembly

Member of Provincial Assembly

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 in 1985 and was later selected as Chief Minister

Chief Minister

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 of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa belongs to Union council Palak, as does Arshad Mahmood Abbasi who is the youngest person to be selected as Assistant Director in Ministry of Education through FPSC.