Orangi Town


Orangi Town was a Karachi borough in the northwestern part of the city that was named after the sprawling municipality of Orangi. Orangi Town was formed in 2001 as part of , and was subdivided into 13 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011, and Orangi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi West District in 2015.

Location

Orangi Town was bordered by New Karachi Town to the north across the Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain, Gulberg Town to the east across the Gujjar Nala stream, Liaquatabad Town to the south, and SITE Town to the west. There were 13 official neighborhoods, called union councils.

History

The federal government under Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup d'etat, introduced local government reforms in the year 2000, which eliminated the previous "third tier of government" and replaced it with the fourth tier. The effect in Karachi was the dissolution of the former Karachi Division in 2001, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Keamari Town. In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced. In 2015, Keamari Town was re-organized as part of Karachi West district

Localities within Orangi Town

Bilal Colony
Chisti Nagar
Raees Amrohi Colony
Data Nagar
Ghabool Town
Ghaziabad
Hanifabad
Haryana Colony
Iqbal Baloch Colony
Madina Colony
Mohammad Nagar
Mominabad
Mujahidabad