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Both urban and rural local government have two or three tiers in all provinces except Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where councils are not identified as either urban or rural. There are 129 district councils across the four provinces, 619 urban councils made up of one city district, four metropolitan corporations, 13 municipal corporations, 96 municipal ...
On 14 Aug 2001, 5 major urban districts of Punjab were given the status of City Districts. These Districts were the Headquarters of Divisions of Punjab before 2001. The Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan headquarters were not included in city districts due to semi-urban status. Lahore District; Rawalpindi District; Faisalabad District; Multan District
In 1998, 32.52% of Pakistani lived in Urban areas and has risen to 36.38% in 2017. In the 2017 census , the Urbanization trend has increased in all administrative divisions of Pakistan except Islamabad Capital Territory, where it witnessed a sharp decline in Islamabad Capital Territory.In 1998, 65.72% of the population in Islamabad lived in urban areas and this dropped to 50.58% in 2017.
Organized into five hierarchical tiers, the system commenced with union councils in rural areas and town committees in urban areas, followed by thana councils in East Pakistan and tehsil councils in West Pakistan, then district councils, divisional councils, and concluded with provincial development advisory councils.
A district council (or zila council) is a local government body at the district level.. The functions of a district council include construction and maintenance of roads, and bridges, building hospitals and dispensaries, schools and educational institutions, health facilities and sanitation, tube wells for drinking water, rest houses, and coordination of activities of the Union councils within ...
The Ministry of Housing and Works (Urdu: وزارتِ عمل و اقامت کاری, wazarat-e- amal o Iqamat kaari) is a cabinet level ministry of the Government of Pakistan headed by the Minister for Housing and Works, who must be an elected member of the Parliament of Pakistan.
The Municipal Government of Karachi is the administrative body for the city of [[Karachi], [Sindh]], Pakistan. Presently the Municipal Local Government Karachi consists mainly of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation , headed by the Mayor or Administrator .
Local government in Pakistan by province (1 C) C. Cantonments of Pakistan (6 C, 42 P) D. Districts of Pakistan (9 C, 11 P) G. Government of Islamabad (1 C, 7 P) L.