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Saddar Town

صدر ٹاؤن
Saddar Town صدر ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
	Saddar
	Saddar Town Map
Town Chairman	Mansoor Ahmed Sheikh
District	Karachi District (South)
Division	Karachi Division
Province	Sindh
Country	Pakistan
Established	1972; 53 years ago
Town status	14 August 2001; 23 years ago
Disbanded	11 July 2011; 13 years ago
Union Committees in Town Municipal Corporation	13 Bhim Pura-Ghanchi Para; Hassan Lashkari Village; Garden; Millat Nagar; Ranchor Line-Ghazdarabad; Nanakwara; Old Town Kharadar; City Railway Colony; Saddar; Hijrat Colony; Frere Town; Boat Basin; Clifton-Kehkshan;
Government
• Type	Government of Karachi
• Constituency	NA-241 Karachi South-III
Area
• Total	35 km2 (14 sq mi)
Elevation	14 m (46 ft)
Highest elevation	62 m (203 ft)
Lowest elevation	−6 m (−20 ft)
Population (2023 Pakistani census)
• Total	159,363
• Density	4,553.23/km2 (11,792.8/sq mi)
Demonym	Karachiite
Time zone	UTC+05:00 (PKT)
• Summer (DST)	DST is not observed
ZIP Code	74400
NWD (area) code	021
ISO 3166 code	PK-SD

Saddar Town (صدر ٹاؤن) lies in the Karachi District South that forms much of the historic colonial core of Karachi, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, Saddar Subdivision has a population 159,363.

Etymology

The word Saddar generally means the "center" (of a settlement) and also the "head" (of a group of people or an organisation). The word Saddar may loosely be translated into "Downtown" as it shares common characteristics with a Downtown of any particular city located in United States. This includes historic areas, attractions, being in the center etc.

Location

Saddar Town is located in the colonial heart of Karachi. It is bordered by Jamshed Town and Clifton Cantonment to the east, Kiamari Town and the Arabian Sea to the south and Lyari Town to the west.

Demographics

Languages

Languages of Saddar Karachi sub-division (2023 Pakistani census)

Urdu (47.44%)

Punjabi (15.32%)

Sindhi (11.47%)

Pashto (8.06%)

Hindko (7.80%)

Saraiki (2.07%)

Others (7.82%)

There are 159,363 people of which 75,605 spoke Urdu, 24,427 Punjabi, 18,280 Sindhi, 12,848 Pashto, 12,435 Hindko, 3,304 Saraiki, 1,291 Balochi, 760 Kashmiri & 10,413 others.

Religions

Religions in Saddar sub-division (2023)^[1]
Religion			Percent
Islam			87.37%
Hinduism			4.94%
Christianity			7.15%
Parsi			0.31%
Other			0.21%

There are 139,240 Muslims, 11,407 Christians, 7,877 Hindus, 103 Ahmadiyya, 29 scheduled castes, 78 Sikhs, 501 Parsis & 128 others of total population 159,363 of Saddar sub-division.

History

Saddar Town contained much of the oldest parts of Karachi. The federal government under Pervez Musharraf, 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, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Saddar Town as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 13 union councils. In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced.^[2]

In 2015, Saddar Town was re-organized as part of Karachi South.

In January 2022, the town system was restored by a Government of Sindh notification dividing Karachi South District into 2 towns including Saddar Town having 13 union councils.^[3]