Gulshan Town

Gulshan Town was bordered by Gadap Town to the north, the Faisal and Malir Cantonments to the east, Jamshed Town to the southwest, and Gulberg and Liaquatabad to the west.

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 Gulshan Town. In 2011,[1] the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced. In 2015, Gulshan Town was re-organized as part of Karachi East district.

Late commissioner of Karachi Mr. (Syed Darbar Ali Shah) envisioned setting up a new town Gulshan e iqbal on April 16, 1966. It was originally KDA scheme 24 which was renamed in the Name of Great poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Town saw lot of development after setting up of Civic Center and Expo Center Karachi.

The population of Gulshan Town was estimated to be about 650,000 at the 1998 census, of which 99% are Muslim. There are several ethnic groups in Gulshan Town including Muhajirs, Sindhis, Punjabis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, etc. The population of Gulshan Town was estimated to be nearly one million before census 2017. A small number of Konkani Muslims are also settled in the Kokan Cooperative Housing Society of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town.

Safari Park

Gulshan Town is the location of the main University of Karachi campus, as well as the offices of the City District Government of Karachi and the Attorney General of Sindh province. There are also few large parks which includes Aziz Bhatti Park, Askari Park, Aladin Park and the Safari Park.

Gulshan-e-Iqbal may be called as a university town having more than a dozen of Higher Education institutions. Few of the major institutions are as follows:

• University of Karachi
• NED-UET karachi
• IBA karachi
• SSUET
• Federal Urdu University
• Usman University
• Agha Khan University
• Liaquat National Medical University
• Indus University
• Karachi School of Arts
• Iqra University
• ICMAP

and several others

• Zeenatabad Society
• Sharfabad Society
• Bahadurabad
• City District Government
• Karachi
• Lahore

• Karachi Website
• Sindh E-Centralized College Admission Program
• Karachi: Of encroachments and mega projects
• The issue of squatters on land needed for new projects
• Hospitals In Gulshan Town