| Saddar Town | |
| Settlement Type: | Constituent Town of Karachi |
| Subdivision Type: | Town Chairman |
| Subdivision Name: | Mansoor Ahmed Sheikh |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Karachi District (South) |
| Subdivision Type2: | Division |
| Subdivision Name2: | Karachi Division |
| Subdivision Type3: | Province |
| Subdivision Type4: | Country |
| Subdivision Name4: |  Pakistan |
| Parts Type: | Union Committees in Town Municipal Corporation |
| Parts Style: | coll,para |
| Parts: | 13 |
| P1: | 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 |
| Leader Title1: | Constituency |
| Leader Name1: | NA-241 Karachi South-III |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Title1: | Town status |
| Established Title2: | Disbanded |
| Area Total Km2: | 35 |
| Elevation Max M: | 62 |
| Elevation Min M: | -6 |
| Elevation M: | 14 |
| Population As Of: | 2023 Pakistani census |
| Population Total: | 159,363 |
| Population Density Km2: | 4553.23 |
| Population Demonym: | Karachiite |
| Timezone: | PKT |
| Utc Offset: | +05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | DST is not observed |
| Area Code Type: | NWD (area) code |
| Area Code: | 021 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
| Postal Code: | 74400 |
| Iso 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.
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.[1]
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.[2]
Saddar Town was made up of the following:
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