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Union Councils of Karachi are local governments in Karachi. Union Council is the primary governmental institution in Pakistan. Headed by a Union Nazim, each union council has 10 elected members or councilors. In addition to four male and two female members elected directly, there are two male and two female representatives of the labor, a ...
Alamgir Welfare Trust (Urdu: عالمگیر ٹرسٹ) is a social welfare organization and charity in Karachi, Pakistan which provides services in a wide variety of domains including health, education and feeding the underprivileged, etc. It was established in 1993 and is headquartered at Bahadurabad, Karachi. [1]
Bahadurabad (Urdu: بہادر آباد) is one of the neighbourhoods of Gulshan Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is located in the Civic Centre zone in the Gulshan Town . It was originally inhabited by mainly middle class Hyderabadi Muslim refugees from Hyderabad Deccan (now Hyderabad , Telangana , India ) who migrated after the creation of ...
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 a few large parks which includes Aziz Bhatti Park , Askari Park, Aladin Park (now Bagh-e-Karachi) and Safari Park .
After independence in 1947, Karachi became the capital of the newly independent state of Pakistan and Mayor Hakim Ehsan received the Governor-General, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, at Karachi International Airport. 1948 saw the city boundaries fixed within the new Federal Capital Territory, which covered 2,103 km 2 but also included several small towns and villages separate from Karachi.
An old map of Sindh. In 1839, British Invaded the Sind.. On 1843's annexation Sind was merged into Bombay Presidency and form a division of Bombay Presidency.. Districts and Divisions were both introduced in Sind as administrative units by the British when Sind became a part of British India, and ever since then, they have formed an integral part in the civil administration of the Sind.
On 24 July 1976, the Bangladeshi government inaugurated a Trade Commission office in Karachi, thus establishing its diplomatic presence in the city. [1] [3] This closely followed the opening of the Bangladeshi embassy in Islamabad earlier that year. [5] In 1985, the trade office was converted into a full-fledged consulate-general. [3]
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation was abolished in 2000 and five district municipal corporations were merged into City District Karachi. The City District Karachi was divided into 18 town and 178 union councils.