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Kiamari Town (also spelt Keamari and Kemari) is the main coastal town of Karachi, located in the central and western parts of the city, including the Port of Karachi and an extensive coastline with sandy beaches, small islands and mangrove forests. It does not include the southern island of Manora which is under cantonment administration because of the naval base located there. The town forms a large triangle with highly defined boundaries - the RCD Highway and the Lyari River forming the northeastern border, the Hub River forming the northwestern border and the Arabian Sea forming the southern border. The population of Kiamari Town was estimated to be about 380,000 at the 1998 census, of which 99% are Muslim. There are several ethnic groups including Urdu speakers, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras and Ismailis. A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ...
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Karachi (Urdu: كراچى ) (Sindhi: ڪراچي) is the largest city in Pakistan and the capital of the province of Sindh. ...
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Manora is a small island just outside the port of Karachi, Pakistan. ...
Lyari River carries the sewerage water of the inhabitant of karachi and drops into Arabian sea. ...
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A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) (sometimes also spelled Moslem) is an adherent of Islam. ...
Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under Persian, Turkish, and Arabic influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ...
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Sindhi refers to an Indo-Aryan language speaking socio-ethnic group of people originating in Sindh which is part of present day Pakistan. ...
Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ...
The Seraikis (also spelt as Saraikis) are a people in the southern areas of Pakistani Punjab. ...
The Pashtuns (also Pushtun, Pakhtun (Persian:پختون), ethnic Afghan, or Pathan) are an ethno-linguistic group consisting mainly of eastern Iranian stock living primarily in eastern and southern Afghanistan, and the North West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. ...
The Baloch (بلوچ alternative transliterations Baluch, Balouch, Balooch, Balush, Balosh, Baloosh, Baloush et al. ...
The Memon people are an ethnic group that originated either in modern-day Pakistan or Gujarat. ...
Dawoodi Bohras are the main branch of the Bohras (a Mustali subsect of Ismaili Shia Muslims) based primarily in India and Pakistan. ...
The Ismaili (Arabic الإسماعيليون, Persian: اسماعیلیان Esmâiliyân) branch of Islam is the second largest Shia community, after the Twelvers who are dominant in Iran. ...
History The federal government introduced local government reforms in the year 2000, which eliminated the previous third tier of government (administrative divisions) and raised the fourth tier (districts) to become the new third tier. The effect in Karachi was the dissolution of the former Karachi Division and the merger of it's five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Kiamari Town. This article is about the year 2000. ...
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Neighbourhoods of Kiamari Town Most of the Kiamari neighbourhoods are densely populated with two exceptions. Baba Bhit is composed of three small islands in Karachi harbour with about 5% of the town population. Further west, Gabo Pat is mostly rural with about 10% of the town population but half of the total town area. Sultanabad is one of the neighborhoods of Kemari Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. ...
See also City District Government were introduced in 2000 by Pakistans President Pervez Musharraf. ...
Karachi (Urdu: كراچى ) (Sindhi: ڪراچي) is the largest city in Pakistan and the capital of the province of Sindh. ...
The Minar-e-Pakistan represents Pakistani independence The Hazuri Bagh, looking towards the Roshnai Gate Lahore (Urdu: لاھور) is a major city in Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. ...
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