Malir Subdivision

Malir Town

ملیر ٹاؤن
Malir Town ملیر ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
	Malir Town,Gulshan Model Colony, Malir Cantonment, Karachi
	Union councils of Malir Town
	Coordinates: 24°53′35″N 67°11′43″E / 24.89306°N 67.19528°ECoordinates: 24°53′35″N 67°11′43″E / 24.89306°N 67.19528°E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
City District	Karachi
Established	14 August 2001
Disbanded	2011
Union Councils	8 Malir; Gharibabad; ; Jafar-e-Tayyar; Kala Board; Khokhra Par; Model Colony; Saudabad;
Government
• Type	Town Council
Population (1998)
• Total	981,270
Office Location	Near Saudabad Police Station, Kalaboard, Malir Colony, Karachi. 75080

Malir Town (Sindhi: ملیر ٽائون Urdu: ملیر ٹاؤن ) lies in the northern part of the city that was named after the Malir River.

History[]

Administrative Status[]

2000[]

The federal government under 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, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Malir Town.

2001[]

Malir District was abolished as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001 and divided into three towns namely:

Malir Town,
Bin Qasim Town
and Gadap Town.

Malir Town was formed and was subdivided into 8 union councils.

2011[]

In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced.

On 11 July 2011, Sindh Government restored again Malir District.^[2]

The town system was disbanded in 2011,^[3]

2015[]

In 2015, Malir Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Malir District.

Location[]

Malir Town was bordered by the Jinnah International Airport and the Malir Cantonment to the west and north, the Malir River and Shah Faisal Town to the south and Gadap Town to the east across the Thado Nallo stream.

Neighborhoods[]

Gharibabad
Ghausia Colony
Ghazi Brohi Goth
Hussainabad
Jafar-e-Tayyar
Kala Board
Khokhra Par
Khoso goth
Lyari Basti
Millat Town
Model Colony
Moinabad
Nashtar Square
Saudabad
Taiser Town

References[]

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 November 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Karachi’s district status restored, notification issued, Published in The News Tribe on 11 July 2011, Retrieved on 7 August 2012
^ Abbasi, Saeed (10 July 2011). "Karachi's district status restored, notification issued". The News Tribe. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

External links[]

[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 November 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] Karachi’s district status restored, notification issued, Published in The News Tribe on 11 July 2011, Retrieved on 7 August 2012

[3] Abbasi, Saeed (10 July 2011). "Karachi's district status restored, notification issued". The News Tribe. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

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