Malir Cantonment should not be confused with Malir District.
| Army | |
| Settlement Type: | Cantonment |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Pakistan |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Sindh |
| Subdivision Type2: | City District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Karachi |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Government Type: | Cantonment Board |
| Governing Body: | Cantonment Board Malir |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Brigadier Amjad Mahmood |
| Leader Title1: | Cantonment Executive Officer |
| Leader Name1: | Farooq Ali Malik[2] |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 11 October 1948 |
| Area Total Km2: | 42 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 Census |
| Population Total: | 139052 |
| Timezone Dst: | GMT +05:00 |
| Postal Code: | 75070 |
| Official Name: | Malir Garrison |
The Malir Cantonment (Urdu: ملیر چھاؤنی ) is a cantonment town of the city of Karachi, in Sindh, Pakistan. It serves as a military base and residential establishment.
Declared a cantonment by the Royal British Government as POW Camp by Muhammad Irfan Malik and Ismail Sherwani on 11 October 1941, in the exigencies of World War II, this cantonment was taken over by the Pakistan Army in 1947. This cantonment serves as the main cantonment of Southern areas of Sindh province. It houses civil residences like the Cantonment Bazar Area, DOHS l & 2, Askari-5 and Falcon Complex, Army Cantonment is stretched over an area of 12 square kilometers. On 21 February 1948, Quaid-e-Azam visited a Pakistani Military unit for the first time, 5 Heavy Anti-Aircraft regiment (later 5 Light Army Air defence) in Malir Cantonment.[3] [4]
Malir Cantonment is administratively governed through Cantonment Board Malir, a Local Body by its charter, under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Defence, through the Military Lands and Cantonment Department (ML&C), headed by a Director General. The governance of the Cantonment Board derives authority from the Cantonment Act, 1924 and rules made thereunder. The cantonment maintains its own infrastructure of water supply, electricity and is outside the jurisdiction of City District Government Karachi.
Roughly it is around 180,000 and includes all the ethnic and linguistic groups of Pakistan.Majority of its population consists of serving and retired armed services personnel along with notable civilian businessmen and bureaucrats.