Buffer Zone, Karachi

Buffer Zone (Urdu: بفر ذون ) is one of the residential neighbourhoods of North Nazimabad Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, namely it's Union Council (UC9). The Government of Pakistan reserved this land in the 1950s as "Buffer Zone" from Urban sprawl in Karachi for future construction of Government offices and residential neighborhoods for bureaucrats but in the early 1960, the capital was transferred from Karachi to newly built Islamabad and this land was sold to land developers.[1]

A view of Buffer Zone

This is where the Pakistani cricket star Sarfraz Ahmed lives.[2]

See also

References
  1. CITIES: A KARACHI BY ANY OTHER NAME by Sibtain Naqvi, Dawn Newspaper, 30 July 2017, Retrieved 8 June 2023
  2. "Buffer Zone, North Nazimabad Town". City District Government of Karachi website. Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

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