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

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.

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.

Languages

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

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.

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.

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.

Saddar Town was made up of the following:

Bohri Bazaar Bath Island Clifton City Railway Colony Civil Lines Garden Gazdarabad Islam Pura Kalakot Kehkashan Kharadar

Ghanchi Para Millat Nagar Nanak Wara Narayan Pura Old Haji Camp Ranchore Line Saddar Staff Lines Cantt Iqbal Lines Cantt Army Officers Mess Jinnah Lines Cantt Umerkot Lines Cantt Askari-I Cantt Askari-II Cantt Askari-III Cantt Com Kar Cantt Abdul Sattar Edhi Hockey Stadium Cantt. Shah Rasool Colony Sikanderabad Shireen Jinnah Colony

• Saddar
• Karachi
• Darya Lal Mandir

• Karachi Website
• Saddar Town

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