Administrative divisions of Karachi

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Karachi Towns
Population
(1998 census)
(2006 estimate)
(2023 Census)
9,339,023
11,969,284

2,03,82,881

Area 3,528 km2
City Nazim (Mayor)Murtuza Wahab
Naib Nazim Salman Murad
District Coordination OfficerFazal-ur-Rehman
Towns 25
Union Councils 246
Website karachicity.gov.pk

Karachi, which is the most populated city in Pakistan, was a federation of eighteen autonomous boroughs, called "Towns," that made up the City District of Karachi from 2001 until 2011. Under this now-defunct system, Karachi had a local government system, with a mayor empowered to make decisions in regards to city-planning and administration of local services. The system was abolished in 2011, and Karachi was divided into 5 City District Municipal Corporations, with a 6th formed in 2013. Each Municipal Corporation now has its own Chairman and Deputy Chairman. The Karachi Development Authority, which controls city-planning and administration of services in Karachi, is no longer controlled at the local level, but is instead administered by the province directly. [1]

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History

The history of the administration of Karachi begins in 1846, when a cholera epidemic threatened the 9,000 citizens of the city. The efforts to combat this infectious disease were coordinated by a Conservancy Board. In 1852, the Conservancy Board became a Municipal Commission and in 1853, it was upgraded to Municipal Committee. In 1878, the city was empowered to collect taxes at a local level.

The City of Karachi Municipal Act was promulgated in 1933, and the Municipal Committee became a multi-ethnic 57-member Municipal Corporation with a President and a Vice-President in place of the former Mayor and Deputy Mayor. The first President was Jamshed Naserwanji, who had previously served as Mayor for twenty years.

Karachi Population
1961 census1,912,598
1972 census3,498,634
1981 census5,208,132
1998 census9,339,023
2006 estimate13,969,284
2006 estimate17,969,284
Source World Gazetteer [ dead link ‍]

After independence in 1947, Karachi became the capital of the newly independent state of Pakistan and Mayor Hakim Ehsan received the Governor-General, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, at Karachi International Airport. 1948 saw the city boundaries fixed within the new Federal Capital Territory, which covered 2,103 km2 but also included several small towns and villages separate from Karachi.

During the period from 1961 to 1970 the former Federal Capital Territory was merged with the neighbouring princely state of Las Bela to form the Karachi-Bela Division of West Pakistan. During the 1970s this merger was reversed and Karachi became a division in its own right, covering 3,528 km2.

The Karachi Municipal Corporation was upgraded to a Metropolitan Corporation in 1976, followed by Zonal Municipal Committees operating from 1987 to 1994. The system of government changed again in 1996, when the Division of Karachi was subdivided into five districts, each with its own Municipal Corporation.

In 1999, President Pervez Musharraf committed itself to an overhaul of the entire administrative structure of the country. In the year 2000, the entire third tier of government (administrative divisions) was abolished in favour of the fourth tier (districts). In Karachi, the division of Karachi and the five districts were merged to form a new City-District which was subdivided in August 2001 into eighteen autonomous towns comprising 178 local union councils.

The town system was abolished in 2011, and the Karachi Development Authority is run at the provincial, rather than local, level. [1]

Karachi Districts

Karachi is divided into 7 districts. In 2024 the Sindh Government announced plans to rename 4 districts reflecting a shift towards adopting more localized naming conventions. [2] [3]

  1. Karachi District (Formerly Karachi South District)
  2. Gulshan District (Formerly Karachi East District)
  3. Orangi District (Formerly Karachi West District)
  4. Nazimabad District (Formerly Karachi Central District)
  5. Korangi District
  6. Malir District
  7. Keamari District

Karachi Towns

Each of the eighteen towns were governed by an elected Town Council, and led by an elected Town Nazim (Mayor) assisted by a number of officials.

As of 2024, Karachi has 246 Union Councils and 25 Towns as follow:

District Korangi, Karachi:

  1. Model Colony Town
  2. Shah Faisal Town
  3. Landhi Town
  4. Korangi Town

District Karachi (Formerly Karachi South District):

  1. Saddar Town
  2. Lyari Town

District Orangi, Karachi:

  1. Orangi Town
  2. Mominabad Town
  3. Manghopir Town

District Malir, Karachi:

  1. Gadap Town
  2. Malik Town
  3. Ibrahim Hyderi Town

District Nazimabad, Karachi:

  1. New Karachi Town
  2. North Nazimabad Town
  3. Gulberg Town
  4. Liaquatabad Town
  5. Nazimabad Town

District Keamari, Karachi:

  1. Mauripur Town
  2. SITE Town
  3. Baldia Town
  4. Keamari Town

District Gulshan, Karachi:

  1. Sohrab Goth Town
  2. Safoora Town
  3. Gulshan Town
  4. Jinnah Town
  5. Chanesar Town

Karachi Union Councils

Karachi South District

Number of Union CommitteeName of Union committee in town Municipal Corporations
No.1 Saddar TownBhim Pura - Ghanchi Para
No.2 Saddar TownHassan Lashkari Village
No.3 Saddar TownGarden
No.4 Saddar TownMiiiat Nagar
No.5 Saddar TownRanchore Line - Ghazdarabad
No.6 Saddar TownNanakwara
No.7 Saddar TownOld Town Kharadar
No.8 Saddar Town City Railway Colony
No.9 Saddar TownSaddar
No.10 Saddar TownHijrat Colony
No.11 Saddar TownFrere Town
No.12 Saddar TownBoat Basin
No.13 Saddar TownClifton - Kehkshan
No.1 Lyari TownAgra Taj Colony
No.2 Lyari TownBihar Colony
No.3 Lyari TownGulistan Colony
No.4 Lyari TownSingo Lane
No.5 Lyari TownNawa Lane
No.6 Lyari TownKalakot - Rexer Lane
No.7 Lyari TownGhulam Muhammad Lane - Rangiwara
No.8 Lyari TownKalri - Shah Baig Lane
No.9 l_yari TownDaryabad - Hingorabad
No.10 Lyari TownKhadda Memon Society
No.11 Lyari TownNayabad
No.12 Lyari TownBaghdadi
No.13 Lyari TownJinnahabad -Ghulam Shah Lane

Karachi East District

Council Falling in DistrictNumber of Union CommitteeName of Union committee in town Municipal Corporations
Sohrab Goth Town Union Committee No.1Al Asif Square
Union Committee No.2New Quetta Town
Union Committee No.3Sukhiya Goth
Union Committee No.4 Ayub Goth
Union Committee No.5Khadim Hussain Solangi Goth
Union Committee No.6Ahsanabad
Union Committee No.7Yousuf Sahab Goth
Union Committee No.8New Sabzi Mandi
Town Municipal Corporation, SafooraUnion Committee No.1Abbas Town
Union Committee No.2Gulzar-e-Hijri
Union Committee No.3Sachal Goth
Union Committee No.4Al Azhar Garden
Union Committee No.5Johar Complex
Union Committee No.6Pahlwan Goth
Union Committee No.7Gulistan-e-Jauhar
Union Committee No.8Safari Park
Town Municipal Corporation, Gulshan-e-lqbalUnion Committee No.1Essa Nagri
Union Committee No.2Hassan Square
Union Committee No.3Jamali Colony
Union Committee No.4Zia ul Haq Colony
Union Committee No.5New Dhoraji
Union Committee No.6Metrovil-Ill
Union Committee No.7Shanti Nagar
Union Committee No.8National Stadium
Town Municipal Corporation, JinnahUnion Committee No.1Pakistan Quarter
Union Committee No.2Soldier Bazar
Union Committee No.3Patal Para
Union Committee No.4Jamshed Quarter
Union Committee No.5Martian Quarter
Union Committee No.6Fatima Jinnah
Union Committee No.7Bahadurabad
Union Committee No.8Dehli Mercantile Society
Union Committee No.9Tunisia Line
Union Committee No.10Jacobline
Union Committee No.11Behind Jacobline
Town Municipal Corporation, ChanesarUnion Committee No.1PECHS-I
Union Committee No.2PECHS-II
Union Committee No.3Mehmoodabad
Union Committee No.4Manzoor Colony-I
Union Committee No.5Manzoor Colony-II
Union Committee No.6Akhtar Colony
Union Committee No.7Azam Basti
Union Committee No.8Chanesar Goth


District Central

Council Falling in DistrictNumber of Union CommitteeName of Union committee in town Municipal Corporations
Town Municipal Corporation, New KarachiUnion Committee No.1Shahnawaz Bhutto Colony
Union Committee No.2Gulshan-e-Saeed
Union Committee No.3Khawaia Ajmeer Nagri
Union Committee No.4Mustafa Colony
Union Committee No.5Kala School
Union Committee No.6Khamiso Goth
Union Committee No.7Madina Colony
Union Committee No.8Faisal
Union Committee No.9Abuzar Ghaffari
Union Committee No.10Godhran
Union Committee No.11Hakeem Ahsan
Union Committee No.12Ka!liana
Union Committee No.13Muhammazi Shah
Town Municipal Corporation,

Liaquatabad

Union Committee No.1Moosa Colony
Union Committee No.2Sharifabad
Union Committee No.3Bundhani Colony
Union Committee No.4lbn-e-Seena
Union Committee No.5Commercial Area
Union Committee No.6Dakhana
Union Committee No.7C-Area
Town Municipal Corporation,

North Nazimabad

Union Committee No.1Sir Syed
Union Committee No.2Farooq-e-Azam
Union Committee No.3Siddiq-e-Akbar
Union Committee No.4Buffer Zone
Union Committee No.5Taimooria
Union Committee No.6Sakhi Hassan
Union Committee No.7Hyderi
Union Committee No.8Al-Falha
Union Committee No.9Pahar Gunj
Union Committee No.10Mustafaabad
Town Municipal Corporation, GulbergUnion Committee No.1Shafiq Colony
Union Committee No.2Samanabad
Union Committee No.3Water Puump
Union Committee No.4Naseerabad
Union Committee No.5Yaseenabad
Union Committee No.6Azizabad
Union Committee No.7Karimabad
Union Committee No.8Gulberg
Town Municipal Corporation, NazimabadUnion Committee No.1Paposh Nagar
Union Committee No.2Abbasi Shaheed
Union Committee No.3Hadi Market
Union Committee No.4Nazimabad
Union Committee No.5Razvia Society
Union Committee No.6Firdous Colony
Union Committee No.7Gulbahar

District Malir


Council Falling in DistrictNumber of Union CommitteeName of Union committee in town Municipal Corporations
Town Municipal Corporation, MalirUnion Committee No.1Ghareebabad
Union Committee No.2Ghazi Dawood Brohi
Union Committee No.3Jaffar-e-Tayyar
Union Committee No.4Khuldabad
Union Committee No.5Quaidabad
Union Committee No.6Dawood Chowrangi
Union Committee No.7Future Colony
Union Committee No.8Sharafi Goth
Union Committee No.9Bakhtawar
Union Committee No.10Bhittaiabad
Town Municipal Corpolation, GadapUnion Committee No.1Gadap
Union Committee No.2Ghaahar
Union Committee No.3Pipri
Union Committee No.4Gulshan-e-Hadeed
Union Committee No.5Steel Town
Union Committee No.6Saleh Muhammad
Union Committee No.7Murad Memon
Union Committee No.8Darsano Channo
Union Committee No.9Shah Mureed
Town Municipal Corporation, Ibrahim HyderiUnion Committee No.1Chowkandi
Union Committee No.2Shah Latif
Union Committee No.3Cattle Colony
Union Committee No.4Majeed Colony
Union Committee No.5Muzafarabad
Union Committee No.6Muslimabad
Union Committee No.7Sher Pao Colony
Union Committee No.8Ibrahim Hyderi
Union Committee No.9Chashma
Union Committee No.10Rehri
Union Committee No.11Ali Akbar Shah

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