Malir Town: History
=== Administrative status ===
The federal government 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 Malir Town.
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.
Malir Town was formed and was subdivided into 8 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.
On 11 July 2011, Sindh Government restored Malir District again.
The town system was disbanded in 2011.
In 2015, Malir Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Malir District.
Under the Sindh Local Government Act, 2021, the Sindh government reorganized the administrative structure of Karachi by replacing the previous seven District Municipal Corporations (DMCs) with 26 towns, each governed by its own Town Municipal Committee (TMC). As a result of this reform, Malir District was divided into three towns:
Malir Town
Gadap Town
Ibrahim Hyderi Town
These towns were officially reinstated as part of the new local government setup implemented for the 2022 local body elections.