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Malir District ضلع ملیر
District of Sindh
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Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
Division	Karachi
Headquarters	Malir
Preceded	District Karachi East (1972-1996)
Established	1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Abolished	2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Restored	11 July 2011; 13 years ago (11 July 2011)
Administration	DMC Malir
Administrative Subdivisions	06 Airport Subdivision Bin Qasim Subdivision Gadap Subdivision Ibrahim Hydri Subdivision Murad Memon Subdivision Shah Mureed Subdivision
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Body	Government of Karachi
• Deputy Commissioner	Irfan Salam Mirwani
• Constituensy	NA-229 Karachi Malir-I NA-230 Karachi Malir-II NA-231 Karachi Malir-III
Area
• District of Sindh	2,160 km (830 sq mi)
Elevation	11 m (36 ft)
Population
• District of Sindh	2,419,736
• Density	1,100/km (2,900/sq mi)
• Urban	1,155,058
• Rural	1,264,678
Demonym	Karachiite
Time zone	UTC+05:00 (PKT)
• Summer (DST)	DST is not observed
ZIP Code	75050
NWD (area) code	021
ISO 3166 code	PK-SD
CNIC Code of Malir District	42501-XXXXXXX-X
Website	dcmalir.sindh.gov.pk

Malir District (Urdu: ضلع ملير) is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan created in 1996 by bifurcation of District Karachi East. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, District Malir had a population of 2,419,736 (2.4 million).

History

Before the independence of Pakistan, there were small villages of Sindhi and Kalmati Baloch in Gadap Town and Malir Town of modern Karachi. Now both towns have developed as the suburbs of the city because of the urban sprawl.

Countryside

Malir has been regarded in history as the countryside of Karachi City due to its open atmosphere and lush green farms, but now these are no more.

Agriculture land

Malir was once famous for its fruit and vegetable farms; but, now due to severe scarcity of groundwater, these farmlands are being converted into residential areas, thus increasing urbanization and environmental degradation. The Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE) has been concerned about drought and desertification in Malir district and has launched a campaign against illegal sand and gravel mining in the dry river beds of the Malir and its tributaries. Sand and gravel mining cause lowering of ground water, as rainwater cannot percolate in the aquifer. SCOPE is developing rainwater reservoirs in drought affected rural areas.

Administrative status

Malir District was established in 1996.

Malir District was abolished in 2000 and divided into three towns namely:

• Malir Town,
• Bin-Qasim Town
• and Gadap Town.

On 11 July 2011, Sindh Government restored again Malir District.

In 2022, a/c to Local Election Act -2022 (amended), Malir District was divided into three "Town Municipal Corporation" namely:

• Malir Town
• Gadap Town
• Ibrahim Hyderi Town

Headed by its elected chairman and a vice-chairman.

and also 6 subdivisions namely:

• Airport
• Bin-Qasim
• Gadap Town
• Ibrahim Hyderi Town
• Shah Mureed
• Murad Memon Goth

Each subdivision's headed by an Assistant Commissioner.

Demographics

At the time of the 2017 census, Malir had a sex ratio of 870 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 63.69%: 69.85% for males and 56.43% for females. 1,066,712 (55.43%) lived in urban areas. 504,348 (26.21%) were under 10 years of age. In 2023, the district had 416,512 households and a population of 2,403,959.

The majority religion is Islam, with 96.45% of the population. Christianity is practiced by 1.82% and Hinduism (including Scheduled Castes) is practiced by 1.66% of the population.

Languages

Languages of Malir district (2023)

At the time of the 2023 census, 34.98% of the population spoke Sindhi, 17.71% Pashto, 15.79% Urdu, 9.94% Punjabi, 7.88% Balochi, 5.69% Hindko and 3.22% Saraiki as their first language.

See also

• Malir Development Authority
• Malir (disambiguation)
• Malir Expressway Project
• Malir River
• Malir Cantonment
• Malir Cantonment railway station

References

1. "Contact Us". dcmalir.sindh.gov.pk. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
2. "Core Team". dcmalir.sindh.gov.pk. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
3. ^ "TABLE 1 : HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2023.
4. "From Zardaris to Makranis: How the Baloch came to Sindh". The Express Tribune. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
5. "Save the Green Belt of Malir". The Nation. 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
6. "SCOPE - Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment". www.scope.org.pk. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
7. Five districts of Karachi restored, notification issued Geo TV News website, Published 11 July 2011, Retrieved 7 March 2022
8. "Karachi to have 26 towns, 233 union bodies under Sindh LG Act". Business Recorder (newspaper). 9 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
9. "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
10. "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
11. "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).
12. "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).

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Provincial capital: Karachi
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