Berote Khurd

Subdivision of Birote Kalan in Pakistan

Birote Khurd is a subdivision of Berote Kalan Union Council in Pakistan.

As part of the local government reforms of 2000, Birote Khurd lost the status of Union Council and was merged into Birote Kalan.

The name of the union council "Birote or Birote Khurd" means lesser Birote, differentiating it from the larger settlement of "Birote Kalan". 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 birote (cf. Britannia major, "Greater Britain" and Britannia minor "Lesser Britain").

Birote Khurd is located in the east part of Abbottabad District in the North West Frontier Province. To the east is the Birote Kallan and Kashmir region and in the west Nathiagalli areas, to the south is Pluck and to the north is the Bakot area. Birote Khurd lies in the foothills of famous Mushkpuri peaks of the Galyat Region.

It has a population of 2,500. The main tribes of Birote Khurd are the, DOOLYALL, Sunyall, Thadyabal, Mojwal, Nakodraal, Lahral (a sub tribe of the Dhond Abbasi). Others tribes are Awans, Gujjars, Seyeds, Pathans, and Qureshis.

The Qazi Sajawal road from Basian/Abbasian Hotrari Chowk to BHU Mohra road (7 km) connects Swargali Boi highway (a junction on the main Abbottabad Murree Road), and the Hadhrat Molana Pir Fakir u llah Bakoti Road from Bakot provide transportation links to Birote Khurd. Peer Azhar Bakoti road connects Hotrati Chowk to Bakote Via Hotrari, Hotrol, Bhan. Mumtaz Abbasi connects Hotrari to Moori via Mawan Di Hill. A lift from Hotrari Chowk to Hotrari opened in 2004 stretching 2200 feet (671 m). Another cable car connects Birote Klan to Nakker Qutbal and then Nakker Qutbal to Mohra (Lammi joo). This cable car crosses Knair and Kasss streams.

This area was a market for Birote Khurd people in winter in the 20th century, but this tradition died out. Water mills vanished during the 1970s, from Gandran ni Dheri, lower Naker Qutbal.