Malir Town ملیر ٹاؤن ملير ٽائون‎
Constituent Town of Karachi
Malir Town,Gulshan Model Colony, Malir Cantonment, Karachi
Union councils of Malir Town
Coordinates: 24°53′35″N 67°11′43″E / 24.89306°N 67.19528°E / 24.89306; 67.19528
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
City District	Karachi
Established	14 August 2001
Disbanded	2011
Union Councils	8 Malir Gharibabad Dawood Goth Jafar-e-Tayyar Kala Board Khokhra Par Model Colony Saudabad
Government
• Type	Town Council
Population  (1998)[1]
• Total	981,270
Office Location	Near Saudabad Police Station, Kalaboard, Malir Colony, Karachi. 75080

Malir Town (Urdu: ملير ٹاؤن) lies in the northern part of the city that was named after the Malir River.

History

Administrative status

2000

The federal government under 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, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Malir Town.^[2]

2001

Malir District was abolished as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001 and divided into three towns namely:

• Malir Town,
• Bin Qasim Town
• and Gadap Town.

Malir Town was formed and was subdivided into 8 union councils.

2011

In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced.

On 11 July 2011, Sindh Government restored Malir District again.

The town system was disbanded in 2011.

2015

In 2015, Malir Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Malir District.

Location

Malir Town was bordered by the Jinnah International Airport and the Malir Cantonment to the west and north, the Malir River and Shah Faisal Town to the south and Gadap Town to the east across the Thado Nallo stream.

Neighborhoods