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Shah Faisal Town Shah Faisal Town ( sd, شاہ فیصل ٽائون ur, ), lies in the eastern part of the city that took its name from Shah Faisal Colony. History Shah Faisal Town was formed in 2001 as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdi ...

History

''Goth'' is a

Sindhi language Sindhi ( ; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status. It is also spoken by a further 1.7 million people in India, where it is a Scheduled languages of India ...

word meaning ''town''. Khoso Goth was established over a century ago. Sindhi landlord (Haji Ghulam Muhammad Khoso) sold his land for housing development. There are several ethnic groups in Khoso Goth including Muhajirs,

Sindhis Sindhis ( sd, سنڌي Perso-Arabic: सिन्धी Devanagari; ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the province of Sindh in Pakistan. After the partition of British Indian empire in 1947, man ...

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, Seraikis,

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, Baloch etc. The population of

is estimated to be nearly one million. Recently a file was moved for the leasing of this Goth New name given to this area is BBC Short Name of Benazir Bhutoo Colony. The Name after Shaheed Benazir Bhutoo. The Most famous Advocate of Supereme Court named Sardar Mahmood Anwar Hussain Baloch lives here He is also Sardar of his Tribe named Ranjhari

Facilities

Facilities include Schools

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s, Graveyard, Playground The main streets of the Town are Cemented. Street lights were also installed by the City Government. Electricity, Gas, Telephone and TV cable connections are easily available. High speed internet

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service is also made available. Initially there was only one Govt. school in the locality but in the recent years two Private schools named as "Iqra Paramount Grammar School" and "Ilma Public school" are also established. All the three schools are up to Metric level. For religious education two maddresses are established named as Iqra Ishat-ul-Quran and Madressa Hadiqa -Tul-

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. The second one is being run by the Imam of Masjid-e-Abu Bakr.

References

# Shah Faisal Town #

External links

Karachi Website
*www.khosogoth.com * Neighbourhoods of Karachi # karachimalir.com

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