Bin Qasim Town ( sd, بن قاسم ٽائون, ur, ) is a Constituent Town of Karachi, lying on the eastern part of the city, north of Port Qasim. Bin Qasim Town was formed in 2001 as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 7 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011, and Bin Qasim Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Malir District in 2015.

Location

Bin Qasim Town was located in the southeastern part of

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former ...

along the

Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel ...

and the

Indus River The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kash ...

delta. The town and the adjacent Port Qasim were named after

Muhammad bin Qasim Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqāfī ( ar, محمد بن القاسم الثقفي; –) was an Arab military commander in service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh (part of modern Pakistan), inaugurating the Uma ...

, an Arab general who conquered Sindh and multan to establish an Islamic rule in the eighth century CE. Bin Qasim was bordered by Gadap Town to the north, Thatta District and the

to the east, the

to the south and the Malir River and the towns of Landhi,

Malir Malir Town ( sd, ملير ٽائون, ur, ) 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 ...

, and

Korangi Cantonment Korangi Creek Cantonment or Korangi Cantonment ( ur, کورنگی کریک چھاؤنی ) is a cantonment town of the city of Karachi, in Sindh, Pakistan. It serves as a military base and residential establishment. It was established by the B ...

to the west. The town had a population of about 315,000 at the 1998 census, of which 97% were Muslim and include several ethnic groups – Sindhis form majority in the town. The other ethnic groups inhabiting the town included Balochs, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Brahuis, Punjabis, Memons, Bohras and Ismailis.

History

The federal government 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 A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

). 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 Bin Qasim Town. In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the

Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Karachi Metropolitan Corporation () is a public corporation and governing body to provide municipal services in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan. History 1852 Karachi Conservancy Board was established to control cholera epidemics in Ka ...

system was reintroduced. In 2015, Bin Qasim Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Malir district.

Neighbourhoods of Bin Qasim Town

Trade and industry

The port of Bin Qasim was built in the 1970s to relieve pressure on the Port of Karachi and is today the second largest port of Pakistan. The port is surrounded by a large industrial area which includes the Pakistan Steel Mills complex in

Gulshan-e-Hadeed Gulshan-e-Hadeed or Gulshan-e-Hadid ( sd, گلشن حديد ) (meaning ''Garden of Iron'') is a neighborhood in the Malir District of Karachi, Pakistan. Gulshan-e-Hadeed was built near Pakistan Steel Mills for housing its employees, and thus ...

Pakistan Machine Tool Factory The Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation, colloquially referred to as ''Pak Steels'', is a Pakistan-based company that produces long-rolled steel and heavy metal products in the country. Headquartered in Karachi, Sindh, the PSMC is currently the ...

(PMTF) and the Zulfiqarabad Oil Terminal as well as the nearby industrial estate in Landhi Town. The two neighbourhoods of Ibrahim Hyderi and

Rehri Rehri or Rehri Goth ( Urdu: ریڑھی), is a residential neighborhood, a part of Bin Qasim Town, which was disbanded in 2011 but later restored in 2022. Rehri is located on the Arabian Sea coast and has a large community of fishermen. There ...

are focussed on the fishing industry, complemented by the nearby Korangi Fish Harbour.

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