Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
North Nazimabad (Urdu: نارتھ ناظم آباد) is a suburb of Karachi, Pakistan.North Nazimabad was developed in the late 1950s as a residential area for the employees of the federal government of Pakistan, and was named after Khawaja Nazimuddin who was the second Governor-General of Pakistan and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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.
Nazimabad District (Urdu: ضلع ناظم آباد ), formerly Karachi Central District, is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan created in 1996. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Nazimabad District is 3,822,325 (3.8 million).
Nazimabad Town (Urdu: ناظم آباد ٹاؤن) is an administrative subdivision within Karachi, Pakistan [4] in the northern part of the city. It is named after the suburb of Nazimabad , which is named after the second Governor General of Pakistan Khawaja Nazimuddin .
North Nazimabad was developed as a residential area for federal government employees. But in the early 1960s, the capital of Pakistan was transferred from Karachi to newly developed capital Islamabad. In the 1950s, Nazimabad was developed in the outskirts of Karachi and now it is in the central part of the city because of the urban sprawl.
North Karachi is located between the Lyari River, the Manghopir Hills and two major roads - Surjani Road to the north and Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain to the south. To the north and west lies Gadap Town, and to the south the towns of Gulberg and North Nazimabad. The population of North Karachi Town was estimated to be about 500,000 at the 1998 census.
North of the historic core is the largely middle-class district of Nazimabad, and upper-middle-class North Nazimabad, which were developed in the 1950s. To the east of the historic core is the area known as Defence , an expansive upscale suburb developed and administered by the Pakistan Army .
New Karachi Town or North Karachi Town (Urdu: نیو کراچی ٹاؤن) lies in the northern-eastern part of Nazimabad District, Sindh province of Pakistan. It was formed when katchi abadis were resettled following the 1958 coup d'état .