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Landhi Town لانڈھی ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
Landhi Town Map
Town Chairman	Abdul Jamil Khan
District	Korangi District
Division	Karachi Division
Province	Sindh
Country	Pakistan
Established	1972; 52 years ago (1972)
Town status	14 August 2001; 23 years ago (14 August 2001)
Disbanded	11 July 2011; 13 years ago (11 July 2011)
Union Committees in Town Municipal Corporation	10 Labour Square Zaman Town Sharif Colony Khawaja Ajmair Bhutto Nagar Farooq Villas Zamanabad Hasrat Mohani Colony Nizam-e-Mustafa Colony 100 Quarters
Government
• Type	Government of Karachi
• Constituency	NA-233 Karachi Korangi-II
Area
• Total	19 km (7 sq mi)
Elevation	13 m (43 ft)
Population
• Total	681,293
• Density	35,857.58/km (92,870.7/sq mi)
Demonym	Karachiite
Time zone	UTC+05:00 (PKT)
• Summer (DST)	DST is not observed
ZIP Code	75160
NWD (area) code	021
ISO 3166 code	PK-SD

Landhi Town (Urdu: لانڈھی ٹاؤن) is a Karachi borough in eastern Karachi that was named after the locality of Landhi. Landhi Town was formed in 2001, and subdivided into 9 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011 but restored in 2022 and Korangi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi East District, before Korangi District was formed. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, the population of Landhi Subdivision is 681,293.

Location

It is bordered by the Faisal Cantonment and Shah Faisal Town to the north across the Malir River, Bin Qasim Town to the south and east, and Korangi Town to the west. The population of Landhi Town was estimated to be over 660,000 at the 1998 census, of which 99% are Muslim. Muhajirs constitute an overwhelming majority of the population, followed by Pashtuns, Sindhi and Baloch.

History

Landhi Town contained much of the oldest parts of Karachi. The federal government under Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup d'état, 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 Landhi Town. In 2011,Despite being abolished, the system was nevertheless used for administrative purposes up to 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced. In 2015, Landhi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi East, before it was made part of Korangi District.

Demographics

Languages of Landhi sub-division (2023 Pakistani census)

There are 681,293 people of which 590,988 spoke Urdu, 22,953 Sindhi, 18,370 Punjabi, 10,812 Pashto, 6,813 Hindko, 4,257 Saraiki, 2,404 Shina, 1,988 Balochi, 1,934 Balti, 617 Kashmiri & 20,157 others.

Neighbourhoods

• Awami Colony
• Bhutto Nagar is named after former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Sindhi.
• Sher Pao Colony
• Dawood Chowrangi
• Khawaja Ajmeer Colony is named after Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer.
• Burmee Colony is named for the Rohingya refugees who hail from Myanmar (formerly Burma).
• Korangi lies on the eastern side of Karachi between Karachi and Keti Bandar – the area extending from Korangi to Rehri Creek.
• Landhi is home to Babar Market, one of Asia's largest open air markets. Landhi railway station is also located in this area.
• Moinabad
• Muslimabad
• Majeed Colony
• Old Muzafarabad
• Sharafi Goth
• Sherabad

See also

• Landhi Industrial Area
• City District Government
• Karachi
• Lahore

References

1. KARACHI: Rs402m Landhi Town budget Dawn (newspaper), Published 12 May 2006, Retrieved 5 March 2022
2. Tahir, Siddiqui (1 August 2022). "Division of Karachi into 26 towns, 233 UCs notified (by the government)". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 31 December 2022.

External links

• "Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) official website". 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014.
• Landhi Town - archived

• Landhi Town
• Korangi District
• Towns in Karachi