Bar Abakhel is an administrative unit, known as the union council, of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. District Swat has 9 Tehsils: Khwazakhela, Kabal, Madyan, Barikot, Mingora, Charbagh, and Kalam. Each Tehsill comprises a number of union councils. There are 65 union councils in district Swat, which include 56 rural and 9 urban ones.

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