New Karachi Town


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. New Karachi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central District in 2015. New Karachi Town has a population 1,165,742 as of 2023 Pakistani census.

Town Municipal Committee

As per the Sindh Local Government Act, 2021, Sindh government replaced the previous seven District Municipal Corporations with 26 towns, each with its own municipal committee. Karachi Central District has five towns.
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 period 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" and replaced it with the fourth tier. 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 in 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 and 42,759 others.

Town Municipal Corporation

13 Union Committees of New Karachi in Town Municipal Corporation
Sub Sr NumberCouncils Falling in District Number of Union CommitteeName of UC in Town Municipal Corporation
1TMC New KarachiUC#01Shahnawaz Bhutto Colony
2UC#02Gulshan-e-Saeed
3UC#03Khawaja Ajmeer Nagri
4UC#04Mustafa Colony
5UC#05Kala School
6UC#06Khamiso Goth
7UC#07Madina Colony
8UC#08Faisal
9UC#09Abuzar Ghaffari
10UC#10Godhra
11UC#11Hakeem Ahsan
12UC#12Kalyana
13UC#13Muhammad Shah

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

, 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.

Constituensy

Parks

  • Arif Hussain Model Park
  • Nasir Hussain Model Park
  • Muhammad Shareef Park
  • Nazir Hussain Model Park
  • Abu Nasar Park Model Park
  • Rashid Minhas Family Park
  • Bi Ammaan Park

    Major streets

  • Shahrah-e-Khursheed Begum
  • 7000 Road
  • 9000 Road
  • 5200 Road
  • 5200 Road

    Police stations

  • Industrial Area Police Station
  • Khawaja Ajmeer Nagri Police Station
  • New Karachi Police Station
  • Bilal Colony Police Station