Faisal Cantonment

Faisal
Cantonment
Country Pakistan
Province Sindh
City District Karachi
Established 4 November 1925
Government
 • Type Cantonment Board
 • President Air Commodore Choudary Fazal Mahmud
 • Executive Officer Rana Kashif Shahzad
 • Nominated Air Force Member Ashghar Awan
 • Nominated Civil Member Haji Nazim
Population (1998)
 • Total 225,000
Website www.cbf.com.pk

The Faisal Cantonment (Urdu: فیصل چھاؤنی‬‎)is a cantonment town of the city of Karachi, in Sindh, Pakistan. It serves as a Airforce base and residential establishment. It was established by the British Indian Army in 1925, and handed over to the Pakistan Army in 1947. The cantonment maintains its own infrastructure of water supply, electricity and is outside the jurisdiction of City District Government of Karachi.

There are several ethnic groups including Muhajirs, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras and Ismailis.

Working Departments

  • CEO Office
  • PA TO CEO
  • Office Superintendent Office
  • Engineering Branch
  • Revenue Branch
  • Sanitation Branch
  • Garden Branch
  • IT Branch
  • Legal Branch
  • Land Branch

Neighborhoods

Areas

  • Defence Officers Housing Society
  • Gulshan-e-Amna
  • Gulshan-e-Jamal
  • Askari-IV
  • KDA Officer Co-operative Housing Society
  • KDA Scheme-1/A(Extension)
  • Khosa Goth
  • Old Iqbalabad
  • T and T Colony
  • Tariq Bin Ziyad Society

Gulistan-e-Johar

  • Block-12
  • Block-13
  • Block-14 Partially
  • Block-15 Partially
  • Block-16-A
  • Block-17
  • Block-18
  • Block-19
  • Block-20
  • Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block-10-A
  • Gulistan-e-Jauhar Block 19

See also

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