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North Nazimabad Town شمالی ناظم آباد ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
AO Clock Tower in North Nazimabad
Town Chairman	Atif Ali Khan
Municipal Commissioner	Syed Zain ul Abideen Khan Malik
District	Nazimabad 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)
Reorganized	March 2015; 9 years ago (March 2015)
Union Committees in Town Municipal Corporation	10 Sir Syed Farooq-e-Azam Siddiq-e-Akbar Buffer Zone Taimooria Sakhi Hassan Hyderi Al-Falha Pahar Gunj Mustafaabad
Government
• Type	Government of Karachi
• Constituency	NA-250 Karachi Central-IV
Area
• Total	23 km (9 sq mi)
Elevation	47 m (154 ft)
Highest elevation	123 m (404 ft)
Lowest elevation	23 m (75 ft)
Population
• Total	920,476
• Density	40,104.91/km (103,871.2/sq mi)
Demonym	Karachiite
Time zone	UTC+05:00 (PKT)
• Summer (DST)	DST is not observed
ZIP Code	74700
NWD (area) code	021
ISO 3166 code	PK-SD

North Nazimabad Town (Urdu: شمالی ناظم آباد ٹاؤن) lies in the northern part of the city of Karachi, Pakistan, and was named after the suburb of North Nazimabad. North Nazimabad Town was formed in 2001 as part of the Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 10 union councils and North Nazimabad Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central District in 2015. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, the population of North Nazimabad Subdivision is 920,476.

In January 2022, the town system was restored by a Government of Sindh notification dividing Karachi into 26 towns and 233 union councils.

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 North Nazimabad 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, North Nazimabad Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central district.

Demographics

Languages of North Nazimabad sub-division (2023 Pakistani census)

There are total 920,476 people in North Nazimabad sub-division of which 663,698 spoke Urdu, 73,595 Pashto, 65,767 Saraiki, 52,139 Punjabi, 16,785 Sindhi, 11,155 Balochi, 9,851 Hindko & 27,486 others.

Religions

There are 903,985 Muslims, 14,220 Christians, 1,571 Hindus, 472 Ahmadiyya, 30 scheduled castes, 21 Sikhs, 7 Parsis & 220 others of total population 920,476 of North Nazimabad sub-division.

Union Committees

10 Union Committees of North Nazimabad in Town Municipal Corporation

Constituensy

NA-250 Karachi Central-IV

See also

• Karachi
• North Nazimabad

References

1. Tahir Siddiqui (8 January 2022). "Division of Karachi into 26 towns, 233 UCs notified (by the government)". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 31 December 2022.
2. "North Nazimabad Town". City District Government of Karachi website. Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
3. "TABLE 11 – POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/ URBAN" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
4. "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2023)" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

External links

Media related to North Nazimabad Town at Wikimedia Commons

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• North Nazimabad Town
• Karachi Central District
• Towns in Karachi