New Karachi Town


New Karachi Town was a Karachi borough in the northern part of the city. Gulberg Town was formed in 2001 as part of , and was subdivided into 13 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011, and New Karachi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central District in 2015.

Location

New Karachi was in the northern part of Karachi, Pakistan, 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 was Gadap Town, and to the south lie the towns of Gulberg Town and North Nazimabad Town. The population of New Karachi Town was estimated to be more than 680,000 at the 1998 census. Muhajirs constitute an overwhelming majority of the population.

History

The federal government under 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 reintroduced. In 2015, New Karachi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central district.

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.

Educational institutions

MA Tutor Academy
SK Grammar School
Pak Horizon Grammar School
Madina Tul Ilm High School North Karachi
High Star Public School
Dawn Public School, North Karachi
Lycos Grammar School
Wonderland Grammar School
Saeeda Academy
Asra Public School
Karachi Generation School
Dawn Public School, North Karachi
SK Grammar School, North Karachi
Little Flower Children Secondary School
Al Rahman Grammar School, North Karachi
Dawn Public School, North Karachi
S.M.B. Academy School Boys & Girls, North Karachi
Woodland Secondary School, North Karachi
Little Orchard Academy Shadman Town No 2, North Karachi
Green Land Public School, North Karachi
The Metropolitan Academy
Usman Public School, North Karachi

Hospitals

Some famous mosques are: