Gulshan Town

Gulshan Town (Urdu: گلشن ٹاؤن‎) was a Karachi borough in the northeastern part of Karachi. Gulshan 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,[1] and Gulshan Town was re-organized as part of Karachi East District in 2015.

Gulshan Town


گلشن ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
Gulshan Town was divided into 13 Union Councils
CountryPakistan
ProvinceSindh
City DistrictKarachi
Established14 August 2001
Disbanded2011
Union Councils13: Civic Centre, Delhi Mercantile Society, Essa Nagri, Gillani Railway Station, Gulshan-e-Iqbal I, Gulshan-e-Iqbal II, Gulzar-e-Hijri, Jamali Colony, Metroville Colony, Pehlwan Goth, P.I.B. Colony, Safooran Goth, Shanti Nagar
Government
 • TypeTown Council
 • Town NazimMuhammad Wasay Jalil
 • Naib NazimShoib Akhtar
 • Municipal OfficerMuhammad Shafiqur Rehman
Population
 (1998)
 • Total646,662
Area code(s)Vehicle No s-4215
Office LocationPlot#14, Scheme 24, Adjacent Civic Center, University Road Karachi
Contact(021) 99230355-9 & (021) 99231363
WebsiteGulshan Town Page
TMA Gulshan website
This article is about the defunct administrative unit that existed between 2001 and 2011. For the Karachi suburb, see Gulshan-e-Iqbal.

Location

Gulshan Town was bordered by Gadap Town to the north, the Faisal and Malir Cantonments to the east, Jamshed Town to the southwest, and Gulberg and Liaquatabad to the west.

History

The federal government under 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 divisions) and replaced it with the fourth tier (districts). The effect in Karachi was the dissolution of the former Karachi Division in 2001, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Gulshan Town. In 2011,[1] the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced. In 2015, Gulshan Town was re-organized as part of Karachi East district.

Late commissioner of Karachi Mr. (Syed Darbar Ali Shah) envisioned setting up a new town Gulshan e iqbal on April 16, 1966. It was originally KDA scheme 24 which was renamed in the Name of Great poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Town saw lot of development after setting up of Civic Center and Expo Center Karachi.

Demographics

The population of Gulshan Town was estimated to be about 650,000 at the 1998 census, of which 99% are Muslim. There are several ethnic groups in Gulshan Town including Muhajirs, Sindhis, Punjabis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, etc. The population of Gulshan Town was estimated to be nearly one million before census 2017. A small number of Konkani Muslims are also settled in the Kokan Cooperative Housing Society of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town.

Neighbourhoods
Safari Park

Gulshan Town is the location of the main University of Karachi campus, as well as the offices of the City District Government of Karachi and the Attorney General of Sindh province. There are also few large parks which includes Aziz Bhatti Park, Askari Park, Aladin Park and the Safari Park.

Education

Gulshan-e-Iqbal may be called as a university town having more than a dozen of Higher Education institutions. Few of the major institutions are as follows:

  • University of Karachi
  • NED-UET karachi
  • IBA karachi
  • SSUET
  • Federal Urdu University
  • Usman University
  • Agha Khan University
  • Liaquat National Medical University
  • Indus University
  • Karachi School of Arts
  • Iqra University
  • ICMAP

and several others

See also

References
  1. Abbasi, Saeed (10 July 2011). "Karachi's district status restored, notification issued". The News Tribe. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

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