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The Karachi Division was abolished in 2001 and five districts of Karachi were merged in City District Karachi. The City District Karachi was divided in 18 towns and 178 union councils. [3] Commissioner Karachi division was made DCO City District government Karachi. On 11 July 2011, the Sindh Government restored five districts of Karachi ...
An old map of Sindh. In 1839, British Invaded the Sind.. On 1843's annexation Sind was merged into Bombay Presidency and form a division of Bombay Presidency.. Districts and Divisions were both introduced in Sind as administrative units by the British when Sind became a part of British India, and ever since then, they have formed an integral part in the civil administration of the Sind.
The Federal Capital Territory was absorbed into West Pakistan in 1959 and in 1960 merged with the district of Las Bela to form the Karachi-Bela Division. In 1969, the princely states of Chitral , Dir and Swat were incorporated into West Pakistan as the division of Malakand with Saidu as the divisional headquarters.
Gulshan District (formerly Karachi East) (Urdu: ضلع گلشن ) is an administrative district of Karachi Division created in 1972. As of 2023 Pakistani census population of Gulshan District is 3.9 million. In 2023, the Government of Sindh renamed Karachi East District to Gulshan District to align with its famous town name. [6]
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 km 2 but also included several small towns and villages separate from Karachi.
With the Independence of Bangladesh, Pakistan lost 20 of its districts and so there were 106 districts. In 2001, the number was reduced to 102 by the merger of the 5 districts of Karachi Central, Karachi East, Karachi South, Karachi West and Malir to form Karachi District. The number of districts rose to 106 again in December 2004, when four ...
Karachi East District (established 1972) Karachi South District (established 1972) Karachi West District (established 1972) Malir District (established 1996) Korangi District (established in 2013) Keamari District (established in 2020) During 14 Aug 2001 to 2011, Karachi Division was abolished and all of the five districts (at that time) of ...
Every district of Pakistan is administratively divided into several tehsils. Each tehsil is governed by a Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA), which is focussed around a tehsil/taluka council. The head of each tehsil is a Tehsil/Taluka Nazim, assisted by a tehsil/taluka municipal officer (TMO) and a number of other officials, all of whom are ...