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Lyari Town لیاری ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
Seal
Lyari Town Map
Town Chairman	Nasir Karim Baloch
District	District Karachi South
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)
Part of District Karachi West	(1972-2015)
Union Committees in Town Municipal Corporation	13 Agra Taj Colony Bihar Colony Gulistan Colony Singo Lane Nawa Lane Kalakot-Rexer Lane Ghulam Muhammad Lane-Rangiwara Kalri-Shah Baig Lane Daryabad-Hingorabad Khada Memon Society Nayabad Baghdadi Jinnahabad-Ghulam Shah Lane
Government
• Type	Government of Karachi
• Constituency	NA-239 Karachi South-I
• National Assembly Member	Nabil Gabol
Area
• Total	6 km (2 sq mi)
Elevation	2 m (7 ft)
Highest elevation	19 m (62 ft)
Lowest elevation	−2 m (−7 ft)
Population
• Total	949,878
• Density	158,313/km (410,030/sq mi)
Demonym	Karachiite
Time zone	UTC+05:00 (PKT)
• Summer (DST)	DST is not observed
ZIP Code	75660
NWD (area) code	021
ISO 3166 code	PK-SD

Lyari Town (Sindhi: لیاري ٽائون, Urdu: لیاری ٹاؤن ) is named after the historic locality of Lyari. Lyari Town was the smallest borough (called "town" in Karachi) by area, but also the most densely populated. Lyari Town was formed in 2001 as part of the Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 11 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011, and Lyari Town was re-organized and merged into Karachi South in 2015 before it was part of District Karachi West. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, the population of Lyari Subdivision is 949,878.

Location

It was bordered by the boroughs of SITE Town to the north across the Lyari River, Jamshed Town and Saddar Town to the east, and Kemari Town to the west across Karachi Harbour.

History

2000

The federal government 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 Lyari Town.

2011

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

2015

In 2015, Lyari Town was re-organized as part of Karachi South district.

Demographics

There are several ethnic groups in Lyari sub-division. Total population of Lyari sub-division is 949,878 as of 2023 Pakistani census.

Languages of Lyari sub-division (2023 census)

There are 249,997 Balochi, 237,615 Sindhi, 95,594 Urdu, 87,353 Pashto, 77,499 Punjabi, 37,575 Hindko, 14,020 Saraiki, 3,931 Brahui, 1,500 Kashmiri, 295 Mewati, 170 Balti, 118 Kohistani, 19 Shina, 12 Kalasha & 144,180 others.

See also

• Lyari Development Authority
• Lyari Expressway
• Lyari River
• Lyari
• Lyari Expressway Resettlement Project

References

1. "Lyari Town". City Government of Karachi website. Archived from the original on 19 February 2006. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
2. Latif Baloch (2 August 2005). "KARACHI: Lyari: Karachi's oldest settlement". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 27 May 2022.
3. Sarwat Viqar (2014). "Constructing Lyari: place, governance and identity in a Karachi neighbourhood". South Asian History and Culture. 5 (3): 365–383. doi:10.1080/19472498.2014.905335.
4. Yamini Narayanan (19 November 2015), Religion and Urbanism: Reconceptualising Sustainable Cities for South Asia, Routledge, p. 165, ISBN 978-1-317-75542-5
5. "Location Map of Lyari Town". Karachi Municipal Corporation, Government of Sindh website. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2022.

External links

• Imagining Lyari through Akhtar Soomro
• Town map
• Official Website

• Lyari Town
• Karachi South District
• Towns in Karachi