North Nazimabad Town


North Nazimabad Town was a Karachi borough in the northern part of the city that was named after the suburb of North Nazimabad. North Nazimabad Town was formed in 2001 as part of , and was subdivided into 10 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011, and North Nazimabad Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central District in 2015.

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, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including North Nazimabad 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, North Nazimabad Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central district.