Before the independence of Pakistan, there were small villages of Sindhi and Kalmati Baloch in the Gadap Town and Malir Town of modern Karachi. Now both towns are developed as the suburbs of the city because of the urban spread.
Malir, Latitude Longitude
Coordinates Information
The Latitude of Malir, Karachi, Pakistan is 24.902885, and the Longitude is 67.197578. Malir, Karachi, Pakistan is located at Pakistan country in the Towns place category with the GPS Coordinates of 24° 54′ 10.3860” N and 67° 11′ 51.2808” E.
Administrative
History
The Malir was established as the fifth district of Karachi city in 1996. The then federal government under the Local Government Reforms system in the year 2000, eliminated the previous “third tier of governance” (districts in Karachi) and replaced it with adding a fourth tier (Towns) in Karachi. 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-Government with 18 autonomous constituent towns including Malir Town. The Malir District was abolished as part of the Local Government Ordinance, 2001, and divided into three towns, namely Malir Town, Bin Qasim Town, and Gadap Town. In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced. In July 2011, Sindh Government reinstated Malir District again, while the Town system disbanded. In 2015, Malir was re-organized and made a part of the Malir District.
Administratively district Malir was divided into 6 subdivisions (talukas), namely Malir, Gadap, Bin Qasim, Ibrahim Hyderi, Murad Memon, and Shah Mureed but in the recent changes in the Local Election Act -2022 (amended) some changes are taken place and in Malir 2 additional Towns namely are established, that includes.
District Electoral worth
and Constituencies
With respect to voters, however, Malir is the smallest among the six districts of Karachi, with only 751,526 people registered on the electoral roll. District Malir is also affected district with the administrative changes witnessed in the delimitations that took place before the 2018 general elections. The district now has three National Assembly seats (NA-236- Malir-1, NA-237, and Malir-II & NA-238, Malir-III) and five provincial assembly seats ( PS-87, Malir-I, PS-88, Malir-II, PS-89, Malir-III, PS-90 Malir-IV and PS-91, Malir-V) registering an increase of one each from previous elections held in 2013. In the last elections held in 2018, a total of 536 polling stations and 1,991 polling booths were formed across the district. Independent observers believe that the new demarcations and the locality adjustments have been carried out in a way to hit past power wielders from the area.
District Demographics
At the time of the 2017 census, the Malir district had a population of 1,924,346, of which 1,028,865 were males and 895,329 females. The rural population was 857,634 (44.57%) and urban 1,066,712 (55.43%). The literacy rate is 63.69%: 69.85% for males and 56.43% for females.
Religions in Malir
district (2017)
The majority religion is Islam, with 96.39% of the population. Christianity is practiced by 1.78% and Hinduism (including Scheduled Castes) is practiced by 1.77% of the population.
Language
Breakup
At the time of the 2017 census, 31.37% of the population spoke Sindhi, 19.37% Pashto, 12.91% Urdu, 12.08% Punjabi, 8.18% Balochi, 6.83% Hindko, 3.96% Saraiki and 1.26% Brahui as their first language.
Agriculture Land
Malir was once famous for its fruit and vegetable farms; but now due to severe scarcity of groundwater, these farmlands are being converted into residential areas, thus increasing urbanization and environmental degradation. The sand and gravel mining cause lowering of groundwater, as rainwater cannot infiltrate in the aquifer.
