Gulshan Town
Gulshan Town
گلشن اقبال ٹاؤن گلشن اقبال ٽاؤن | |
|---|---|
Safooran Goth, Shanti Nagar | |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town Council |
| • Town Chairman | Dr Fauad Ahmed |
| • vice chairman | Muhammad Ibrahim Siddiqui |
| Population (1998) | |
| • Total | 646,662 |
| Area code | Vehicle No s-4215 |
| Office Location | Plot#14, Scheme 24, Adjacent Civic Center, University Road Karachi |
| Contact | (021) 99230355-9 & (021) 99231363 |
Gulshan Town (
Gulshan-e-Iqbal restored as Town in January 2022.[3]
Location
Gulshan Town is bordered by
Gulberg and Liaquatabad
to the west.
History
The federal government under
Karachi East
district.
Gulshan-e-Iqbal town was restored as a Town in January 2022, which includes union committees 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 & 28.[3]
Commissioner of Karachi (
Civic Centre, Karachi and Karachi Expo Center
.
Demographics
The population of Gulshan Town was estimated to be about 650,000 at the 1998 census, of which 99.5% are
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
Gulshan Town is the location of the main
Safari Park
.
- Delhi Mercantile Society[1]
- Essa Nagri
- Bahadurabad
- Hyderabad Colony
- Gulshan-e-Iqbal I[1]
- Gulshan-e-Iqbal II[1]
- Gulzar-e-Hijri
- Gulistan-e-Johar[1]
- Abbas Town
- Kokan Cooperative Housing Society
- Jamali Colony
- Metroville Colony
- Pehlwan Goth
- P.I.B. Colony[1]
- Safoora Goth
- Shanti Nagar[1]
- Sachal Goth
- KESC Society
Education
Gulshan-e-Iqbal area 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 University of Engineering and Technology
- Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
- SSUET
- Federal Urdu University
- UIT University
- Aga Khan University
- Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences
- Indus University
- Karachi School of Arts
- Iqra University
and several others
See also
- Zeenatabad Society
- Sharfabad Society
- Bahadurabad
- City District Government
- Karachi
- Lahore
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Gulshan Town, Karachi". City Government of Karachi website. Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ KARACHI: Rs1,085m budget for Gulshan Town Dawn (newspaper), Published 27 June 2006, Retrieved 1 June 2022
- ^ a b Siddiqui, Tahir (8 January 2022). "Division of Karachi into 26 towns, 233 UCs notified". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Rizvi, Sakina (December 2018). "Micro Thesis: The Muhajir Identity and Effect of Ethnic Discrimination on the Urban Development of Karachi". ResearchGate. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-84904-223-9.
If we go to Gulshan or Nazimabad (Muhajir neighbourhoods) and we see all of the schools and the businesses and the clean roads, we realise, where are we living? But just as Muttahida [the MQM] did it for themselves, it's for us to worry