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The town system was disbanded in 2011, and Gulshan Town was reorganized as a subdivision of Karachi East District in 2015. [1] [2] The Karachi Towns were restored in early 2022. [3] According to the 2023 Pakistani census, the population of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Subdivision is 973,314.
Gulshan-e-Iqbal was populated in 1966 under Scheme 24 of Karachi Development Authority. [3] The name "Gulshan-e-Iqbal" means "the garden of Iqbal", referring to the national poet of Pakistan, Allama Muhammad Iqbal. It has notable gardens. [4] The municipal infrastructure of Gulshan-e-Iqbal has been in poor condition since 1992.
Union Councils of Karachi are local governments in Karachi. Union Council is the primary governmental institution in Pakistan. Headed by a Union Nazim, each union council has 10 elected members or councilors. In addition to four male and two female members elected directly, there are two male and two female representatives of the labor, a ...
Karachi Division (Urdu: کراچی ڈویژن ) is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan created in December 1960. There are seven districts in Karachi Division. CNIC code of Karachi Division is 42. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Karachi Division is 20,382,881 (20 million).
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]
Shanti Nagar (Urdu: شانتی نگر) is a neighborhood in the Karachi East district of Karachi, Pakistan. It is part of the Gulshan Town. [1] The several ethnic groups living in Shanti Nagar include Kutchi, Muhajirs, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis, etc. Over 85% of the population is Muslim.
Kokan Cooperative Housing Society is one of the neighborhoods of Gulshan Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. [ 1 ] Most of the population in the Kokan Cooperative Housing Society belongs to the Konkani Muslim community.
After the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état, the military decided to forcibly resettle the katchi abadis of Karachi into freshly created townships such as New Karachi. [1] The federal government under the ruling of 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" (administrative ...