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.^[1]

Town Municipal Committee

As per the Sindh Local Government Act, 2021, Sindh government replaced the previous seven District Municipal Corporations (DMCs) with 26 towns, each with its own municipal committee. Karachi Central District has five towns.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

• New Karachi Town^[5]
• North Nazimabad Town^[5]
• Gulberg Town
• Liaquatabad Town
• Nazimabad Town^[5]

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.^[7] 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" (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.^[5]

Demographics

There are in total 1,165,742 people in New Karachi sub-division^[1] 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

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^[8]
• Faisal Colony^[8]
• Fatima Jinnah Colony
• Godhra^[8]
• Gulshan-e-Bahar
• Gulshan-e-Farooq
• Gulshan-e-Saeed^[8]
• Hakim Ahsan
• Khamiso Goth
• Khawaja Ajmeer Nagri^[8]
• New Karachi 5 Number
• Madina Colony^[8]
• Muslim Town
• Shah Nawaz Bhutto Colony^[8]
• Zarina Colony

Constituensy

NA-247 Karachi Central-I

Parks

• Arif Hussain (Shaheed) Model Park (11-B, North Karachi)
• Nasir Hussain (Shaheed) Model Park (11-G, North Karachi)
• Muhammad Shareef (Shaheed) Park (5/E, New Karachi)
• Nazir Hussain (Late) Model Park (11-B, North Karachi)
• Abu Nasar Park (Late) Model Park (Kalyana Town, North Karachi)
• Rashid Minhas Family Park (5.c./1, North Karachi) (formerly known as Afza Altaf family park)
• Bi Ammaan Park (11.C, North Karachi, near Nagan Interchange)

Major streets

• Shahrah-e-Khursheed Begum (Nagan Roundabout to Surjani Roundabout)
• 7000 Road (Godhra Camp to Allah Wali Roundabout Chowrangi)
• 9000 Road (Gabol Town to Saba Roundabout)
• 5200 Road (Sindh Government Hospital to Kala School)
• 5200 Road (Bashir Chowk to Sindhi Hotel)

Police stations

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

References

1. ^ "New Karachi Town population per 2023 census (scroll down to page 3 of 8)". Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 24 May 2025. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
2. ^ Maher, Mahim (2022-07-20). "All of Karachi’s local government UC maps in one place". Aaj English TV. Archived from the original on 10 August 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
3. ^ Arshad Yousafzai (2023-06-18). "KARACHI: PPP to rule TMCs of rural, underprivileged areas while JI, PTI to govern most urban TMCs". The News International newspaper. Archived from the original on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 2025-09-30.
4. ^ Mirbahar, TMC Moriro. "Welcome to TMC Moriro Mirbahar". tmcmirbahar.gos.pk. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
5. ^ Siddiqui, Tahir (2023-01-17). "Three-tier municipal set-up of Karachi". Dawn newspaper. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
6. ^ Mehdi, Sajjad (2023-06-30). "Who controls Karachi 25 towns". Aaj English TV website. Archived from the original on 19 July 2025. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
7. ^ Gayer, Laurent (2007). "Guns, Slums, and "Yellow Devils": A Genealogy of Urban Conflicts in Karachi, Pakistan". Modern Asian Studies. 41 (3): 515–544. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/S0026749X06002599
8. ^ "New Karachi Town has many Union Councils". City District Government of Karachi (CDGK) website. Archived from the original on 3 October 2006. Retrieved 30 September 2025.

External links

• New Karachi Town
• Daily New Karachi Town News