Gulshan District

Gulshan District (formerly Karachi East) is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan.

In 2023, the Government of Sindh renamed Karachi East District to Gulshan District to align with its famous town name.

History
The district was established in 1972.

The district was abolished in 2000, and was divided into four towns namely:
 * Gulshan Town
 * Jamshed Town
 * Gulzar-e-Hijri Town
 * Faisal Cantonment
 * Feroz Abad Town.

On 11 July 2015, the Sindh Government restored Karachi East District.

In November 2013, three eastern towns of Karachi East District separated to form a new District named Korangi also Jamshed Town of Karachi South District was added into this district. Now Karachi East comprises two towns: Jamshed and Gulshan.

In 2022, it was divided into five towns namely Sohrab Goth Town, Safoora Town, Gulshan Town, Jinnah Town and Chanesar Town with 43 union councils and 172 wards respectively.

Demographics
At the time of the 2017 census, Gulshan district had 498,183 households and a population of 2,875,315. Gulshan had a gender ratio of 908 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 76.00%: 78.26% for males and 73.49% for females. 22.85% (657,102) were under 10 years of age. In 2023, the district had 665,452 households and a population of 3,950,031.

The majority religion is Islam, with 95.31% of the population. Christianity is practiced by 3.14% and Hinduism (including Scheduled Castes) is practiced by 1.38% of the population.

At the time of the 2017 census, 37.51% of the population spoke Urdu, 13.91% Pashto, 13.29% Punjabi, 11.55% Sindhi, 8.38% Saraiki, 3.29% Hindko and 2.34% Balochi as their first language.

Administrative Towns in Karachi East
Following is the list of administrative towns of Karachi East District.



List of Dehs
The following is a list of Karachi East District's dehs, organised by taluka:


 * Gulshan-e-Iqbal taluka (5 dehs)
 * Dozan (P)
 * Gujero (P)
 * Okewari
 * Safooran (P)
 * Songal (P)
 * Gulzar-e-Hijri taluka (5 dehs)
 * Bitti Amri
 * Dozan (P)
 * Gujro-1
 * Songal
 * Thoming

Hospital and health care facilities
There are several healthcare facilities in the East District, such as the Aga Khan University Hospital and Liaquat National Hospital.

Education Center
There are several educational institutions in district east such as NED university of Engineering and Technology, University of Karachi, Dow University of Health Sciences (Ojha Campus) and many other big and small educational facilities.