Hyderabad District (Pakistan)

Infobox Pakistan district
district = Hyderabad District
area =
population = 4,339,445
pop_year = 1998
density =
established =
nazim = Kanwar Naveed
naib_nazim = Zafar Ali Rajput
tehsils = 4
languages =
website = www.hyderabad.gov.pk

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region = Sindh

Hyderābād District audio|Hyderabad.ogg|pronunciation (Urdu: حیدر آباد), is a district of Sindh, Pakistan. It used to be an administrative division of the Sindh namely the Hyderabad Division, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. It's capital is the city of Hyderabad. The Kirthar National Park is located in Hyderabad district. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan. it had a population of 4,339,445 of which 50.07% were urban, [cite web |url=http://www.urckarachi.org/Population%20Table-5.htm |title=Urban Resource Centre |accessdate=2008-04-24] making it second-most urbanised district of Sindh.

Administration and government

Hyderabad District is administratively subdivided into the following talukhas: [ [http://www.lgdsindh.com.pk/hyderabad2.htm Local Govt. Department of Sindh - Hyderabad City District] ]

# City of Hyderabad
#* Hirabad
#* Hyderabad Old City
# Hyderabad rural
# Latifabad
# Qasimabad

The city of Hyderabad is where the district headquarters are located and the district government is seated. The current nazim is Kanwar Naweed Jamil and the naib nazim is Zafar Ali Rajput.

As of 2008, the district Hyderabad enabled its e-Governance platform to support people via the Internet and other new media platforms.

Till some years back, old Hyderabad district included the adjoining dists of Matiari, Tando Muhammad Khan and Hala. Combined population of that district as per the 1998 census was 2.891M out of which 1.469M people lived in urban while the rest 1.422M people lived in the rural areas. Following are the religious and linguaisitc figures of the old hyderabad district as of 1998:

Religion
Islam: 87.08%
Hinduism: 12.07%
Christianity: 0.61%
Ahmaddiya: 0.13%
Others: 0.10%

Languages
Sindhi: 59.60%
Urdu: 29.61%
Punjabi: 4.02%
Pashto: 1.77%
Balochi: 0.96%
Seraiki: 0.96%
Others: 3.07% (mainly Gujarati/Memons)

However in the urban areas, Urdu speakers form a majority at 56.48% followed by Sindhis at 28.06%

References