Kemari Town

Kiamari Town or Kemari Town (also spelt Keamari and Kemari) (Sindhi: ڪياماڙي ٽائون‎, Urdu: کیماڑی ٹاؤن ‎) was a Karachi borough in the southern part of the city that was named after the historic seaside municipality of Kiamari. Kiamari Town was formed in 2001 as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 11 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011,[1] and Kiamari Town was re-organized as part of Karachi West District in 2015.

This article is about the defunct administrative unit that existed between 2001 and 2011. For the seaside municipality of Karachi, see Kiamari.
Keamari Town


کیماڑی ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
Kemari Town was divided into 11 Union Councils
Coordinates: 24.90°N 66.84°E / 24.90; 66.84
CountryPakistan
ProvinceSindh
City DistrictKarachi
Established14 August 2001
Disbanded2011
Union Councils11, Baba Bhit, Bhutta Village, Gabo Pat, Kakapir, Keamari, Machar Colony, Maripur, Salehabad, Shams Pir, Shershah, Sultanabad
Government
 • TypeTown Council
 • Town NazimHumayun Khan
 • Naib NazimAmeer Hamza
 • Municipal OfficerMuhammad Latif Lodhi
Population
 (1998)
 • Total383,778
WebsiteKeamari Town Page

Location

Kiamari Town comprised the western parts of Karachi, including the Port of Karachi and an extensive coastline of sandy beaches, small islands and Mangrove forests. It does not include the southern island of Manora, which is administered by the Pakistani military as Manora Cantonment, because of the naval base located there. The town formed a large triangle with defined boundaries: the RCD Highway and the Lyari River form the northeastern border, the Hub River to the northwestern border, and the Arabian Sea formed the southern border.

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" (administrative divisions) and replaced it with the fourth tier (districts). 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

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See also
  • City District Government

References
  1. Abbasi, Saeed (10 July 2011). "Karachi's district status restored, notification issued". The News Tribe. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
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