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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.
In the Sindh Local government act 1973 (amended in 1976), the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation was established. [4] [5] In 1976, the Karachi Municipal Corporation was upgraded to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. The administrative area of Karachi was a second-level subdivision known as the Karachi Division, which was subdivided into five ...
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Building is a colonial-era building located on M. A. Jinnah Road, in central Karachi. Construction began in 1927, completed in 1930, and the building was then inaugurated in 1932. [1] It is considered to be one of the most architecturally significant buildings in Karachi. [2]
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.
Mayor of Karachi (Urdu: ناظم کراچی; Sindhi: ميئر ڪراچي ) is the executive of the Karachi metropolitan corporation and the Karachi local government system of the city of Karachi which is the third tier of governance in Pakistan after Federal and provincial governments.
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. In 2011 the Sindh Government restored the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and five district municipal corporations.
The latter was a civil servant appointed by the state. The territory of a Union Council or Village Council was usually part of a Tehsil (county). Less commonly, a Union Council may be part of a City District. Union Councils of Karachi. The following is the list of union councils of Karachi. Karachi had a total of 18 Towns, and 178 Union councils.
Karachi City is a division itself and it comprises seven districts that work together under the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. [2] [3] [1] Karachi Central District (established 1996) Karachi East District (established 1972) Karachi South District (established 1972) Karachi West District (established 1972) Malir District (established 1996)