Buffer Zone, Karachi

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Buffer Zone (Urdu: بفر ذون ) is one of the neighbourhoods of North Nazimabad Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, namely it's UC9. The Government of Pakistan reserved this land in 1950s as "Buffer Zone" from Urban sprawl in Karachi for future construction of Government offices and residential neighborhood for bureaucrats but in early 1960 the capital of Pakistan was transferred from Karachi to newly built Islamabad and this land was sold to land developers.[1] This is where the Pakistani cricket star Sarfraz Ahmed lives.[2]

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  1. ^ CITIES: A KARACHI BY ANY OTHER NAME by Sibtain Naqvi, Dawn Newspaper, 30 July 2017
  2. ^ "North Nazimabad Town - Government of Karachi". Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2006.

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Coordinates: 24°57′25″N 67°04′04″E / 24.9569°N 67.0678°E / 24.9569; 67.0678


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