New Karachi Town or North Karachi Town lies in the northern-eastern part of Nazimabad District, Sindh province of Pakistan. It was formed when katchi abadis were resettled following the 1958 coup d'état. Town system was established by City District Government Karachi in 2001. Town system was disbanded in 2011. New Karachi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central District in 2015. New Karachi Town has a population 1,166,742 as of 2023 Pakistani census.

History

After the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état, the military decided to forcibly resettle the katchi abadis of Karachi into freshly created townships such as New Karachi. The federal government under the ruling of Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup d'etat, introduced local government reforms in the year 2000, which eliminated the previous "third tier of government" (administrative divisions) and replaced it with the fourth tier (districts). The effect in Karachi was the dissolution of the former Karachi Division in 2001, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including New Karachi Town. In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was re-introduced. In 2015, New Karachi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central district.

Demographics

There are total 1,165,742 people in New Karachi sub-division of which 984,105 spoke Urdu, 45,343 Saraiki, 30,667 Punjabi, 26,148 Sindhi, 23,441 Pashto, 7,360 Hindko 5,919 Balochi & 42,759 others.

Town Municipal Corporation

** 13 Union Committees of New Karachi in Town Municipal Corporation**

Location

North Karachi is located between the Lyari River, the Manghopir Hills and two major roads - Surjani Road to the north and Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain to the south. To the north and west lies Gadap Town, and to the south lie the towns of Gulberg and North Nazimabad.

Neighbourhoods

Fatima Jinnah Colony, is named after Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The neighbourhood of Hakim Ahsan is named after the mayor of Karachi who met Muhammad Ali Jinnah at Karachi airport in 1947. Shah Nawaz Bhutto Colony is named after the father of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and grandfather of the later Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Shah Nawaz Bhutto was the last Prime Minister of the princely state of Junagadh and was instrumental in the accession of the state to Pakistan in 1947. Sir Syed Colony is named after Sir Syed Ahmad Khan who promoted education amongst the Muslims of British India and founded the Aligarh Muslim University in 1875. • Abu Zar Ghaffari • Faisal Colony • Fatima Jinnah Colony • Godhra • Gulshan-e-Bahar • Gulshan-e-Farooq • Gulshan-e-Saeed • Hakim Ahsan • Khamiso Goth • Khawaja Ajmeer Nagri • New Karachi 5 Number • Madina Colony • Muslim Town • Shah Nawaz Bhutto Colony • Zarina Colony

Constituensy

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Major streets

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Industrial area

Commercial areas and markets