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Orangi Town

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Orangi Town (اُورنگي ٽاؤن, اُورنگی ٹاؤن) is a town in the northwestern part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. [1]

56 relations: Akhtar Hameed Khan, Baloch Goth, Baloch people, Bangladesh Liberation War, Bihar, Biharis, Bilal Colony, Chisti Nagar, Daily Jang, Data Nagar, East Pakistan, Education, Family planning, Gabol Colony, Ghaziabad, Karachi, Government of Karachi, Gujjar Nala, Gulberg Town, Karachi, Hanifabad, Haryana Colony, House, Index of health articles, Iqbal Baloch Colony, Isma'ilism, Karachi, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Kashmiris, Khasa Hills, Liaquatabad Town, Madina Colony, Orangi Town, Memon people, Microcredit, Mohammad Nagar, Mominabad, Muhajir people, Mujahidabad, Municipality, Musta'li, New Karachi Town, North Nazimabad, North Nazimabad Town, Orangi Nala, Orangi Pilot Project, Orangi Town, Pakistan, Paposh Nagar, Partition of India, Pashtuns, Punjabis, Rural development, ..., Sanitation, Saraiki people, Sindh, Sindhis, SITE Town, UNICEF. Expand index (6 more) »

Akhtar Hameed Khan

Akhter Hameed Khan (اختر حمید خان, pronounced; 15 July 1914 – 9 October 1999) was a Pakistani development practitioner and social scientist.

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Baloch Goth

Baloch Goth (بلوچ گوٹھ.) is a neighbourhood of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Baloch people

The Baloch or Baluch (Balochi) are a people who live mainly in the Balochistan region of the southeastern-most edge of the Iranian plateau in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, as well as in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Bangladesh Liberation War

The Bangladesh Liberation War (মুক্তিযুদ্ধ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in what was then East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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Biharis

The Biharis is a demonym given to the inhabitants of the Indian state of Bihar.

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Bilal Colony

Bilal Colony (بلال کالونی.) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Chisti Nagar

Chisti Nagar or Chishti Nagar (چشتی نگر.) is a neighborhood in Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Daily Jang

The Daily Jang (روزنامہ جنگ) is an Urdu newspaper based in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Data Nagar

Data Nagar (داتا نگر.) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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East Pakistan

East Pakistan was the eastern provincial wing of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh.

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Family planning

Family planning services are defined as "educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved".

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Gabol Colony

Gabol Colony (گبول کالونی) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Ghaziabad, Karachi

Ghaziabad (غازی آباد) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Government of Karachi

The Government of Karachi is the administrative body for the city of Karachi, Pakistan.

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Gujjar Nala

Gujjar Nala or Gujjar Stream (گجر نالہ), is among the main stream of karachi beside Orangi stream.

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Gulberg Town, Karachi

Gulberg Town (Sindhi and گلبرگ) is one of the towns of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Hanifabad

Hanifabad (حنیف آباد) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Haryana Colony

Haryana Colony (ہریانہ کالونی) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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House

A house is a building that functions as a home.

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Index of health articles

Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.

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Iqbal Baloch Colony

Iqbal Baloch Colony (اقبال بلوچ کالونی) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Isma'ilism

Ismāʿīlism (الإسماعيلية al-Ismāʿīliyya; اسماعیلیان; اسماعيلي; Esmāʿīliyān) is a branch of Shia Islam.

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی; ALA-LC:,; ڪراچي) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Karachi Metropolitan Corporation

Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC)() (formerly called Karachi Municipal Corporation) is a public corporation and governing body to provide municipal services in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan.

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Kashmiris

The Kashmiris (کٲشُر لُکھ / कॉशुर लुख) are an ethnic group native to the Kashmir Valley, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, who speak Kashmiri, an Indo-Aryan Dardic language.

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Khasa Hills

Khasa Hills are located in Orangi Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Liaquatabad Town

Liaquatabad Town (لیا قت آباد ٹاؤن) is a town in the central part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan named after Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan.

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Madina Colony, Orangi Town

Madina Colony (مدینہ کالونی) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Memon people

The term Memon refers to a Muslim commercial community from the western part of South Asia, including Memons historically associated with Kathiawar.

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Microcredit

Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment, or a verifiable credit history.

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Mohammad Nagar

Mohammad Nagar (محمد نگر.) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Mominabad

Mominabad (مومن آباد.) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Muhajir people

The Muhajir people (also spelled Mahajir and Mohajir) (مهاجر) are Muslim immigrants, of multi-ethnic origin, and their descendants, who migrated from various regions of India after the independence of Pakistan.

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Mujahidabad

Mujahidabad (مجاہد آباد.) is one of the neighbourhoods of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Musta'li

The Musta‘lī (مستعلي) are a sect of Isma'ilism named for their acceptance of al-Musta'li as the legitimate nineteenth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir Billah.

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New Karachi Town

New Karachi Town (نئين ڪراچي ٽائون, نئی کراچی ٹاؤن na'ī karācī ṭā'un) is a town in the northern part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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North Nazimabad

North Nazimabad (شمالی ناظم آباد) is a suburb of North Nazimabad Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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North Nazimabad Town

North Nazimabad Town (شمالی ناظم آباد ٹاؤن) is a town in the northern part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Orangi Nala

Orangi Nala (اورنگی نالہ) is a small ephemeral stream that flows through the Pakistani megacity of Karachi from north east to the center and flows into the Arabian Sea.

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Orangi Pilot Project

The Orangi Pilot Project (اورنگی پائلٹ پراجیکٹ; abbreviated OPP) collectively designates three Pakistani Non-governmental organisations working together, having emerged from a socially innovative project carried out in 1980s in the squatter areas of Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan.

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Orangi Town

Orangi Town (اُورنگي ٽاؤن, اُورنگی ٹاؤن) is a town in the northwestern part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Paposh Nagar

Paposh Nagar or Paposhnagar (پاپوش نگر) is one of the neighbourhoods of North Nazimabad Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India was the division of British India in 1947 which accompanied the creation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan.

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Pashtuns

The Pashtuns (or; پښتانه Pax̌tānə; singular masculine: پښتون Pax̌tūn, feminine: پښتنه Pax̌tana; also Pukhtuns), historically known as ethnic Afghans (افغان, Afğān) and Pathans (Hindustani: پٹھان, पठान, Paṭhān), are an Iranic ethnic group who mainly live in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Punjabis

The Punjabis (Punjabi:, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), or Punjabi people, are an ethnic group associated with the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, who speak Punjabi, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.

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Rural development

Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas.

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Sanitation

Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.

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Saraiki people

The Saraikis (سرائیکی قوم), also known as Multanis, are an ethnolinguistic group in central and southeastern Pakistan, primarily southern Punjab.

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Sindh

Sindh (سنڌ; سِندھ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, in the southeast of the country.

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Sindhis

Sindhis (سنڌي (Perso-Arabic), सिन्धी (Devanagari), (Khudabadi)) are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the Sindh province of Pakistan, which was previously a part of pre-partition British India.

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SITE Town

SITE Town (سائٽ ٽائون, سائٹ ٹاؤن) is a town in western part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan and is named after the Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate (SITE) area, which forms the heart of the town and is home to people of nearly all communities of Pakistan.

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UNICEF

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangi_Town

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