Steel Town
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Steel Town is an 8126 acres (3,288.5 ha) residential area for employees of Pakistan Steel Mills
Pakistan Steel Mills
The Pakistan Steel Mills, PSM, is the state-owned producer of long rolled steel and heavy iron products in Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan. The Pakistan Steel Mill is the country's largest industrial undertaking having a production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of steel...

, with subsidised rents for essential employees. It is located on the edge of the N-5 National Highway
N-5 National Highway
The National Highway 05 or the N-5 is Pakistan's longest highway running from the port city of Karachi to the border crossing at Torkham...

 that leads to Thatta
Thatta
Thatta is a historic town of 220,000 inhabitants in the Sindh province of Pakistan, near Lake Keenjhar, the largest freshwater lake in the country. Thatta's major monuments especially its necropolis at Makli are listed among the World Heritage Sites. The Shah Jahan Mosque is also listed...

 from Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

. Steel Town is about 40 kilometres (24.9 mi) from Karachi.

The neighbouring areas include Pipri
Pipri
Pipri is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sonbhadra district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.-Geography:Pipri is located at . It has an average elevation of 210 metres .-Demographics:...

, Shah Latif Town, and Gulshan-e-Hadeed
Gulshan-e-Hadeed
Gulshan-e-Hadeed is a neighborhood of Bin Qasim Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.Gulshan-e-Hadeed is dominted by Jamaat-e-Islami. The ethnic groups in Gulshan-e-Hadeed include Muhajirs, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, Memons, Bohras, and Ismailis...

.

There are several ethnic groups living at Steel Town which include Sindhis
Sindhi people
Sindhis are a Sindhi speaking socio-ethnic group of people originating from Sindh, a province Formerly of British India, now in Pakistan. Today Sindhis that live in Pakistan belong to various religious denominations including Islam, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Christianity...

, Punjabis
Punjabi people
The Punjabi people , ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ), also Panjabi people, are an Indo-Aryan group from South Asia. They are the second largest of the many ethnic groups in South Asia. They originate in the Punjab region, which has been been the location of some of the oldest civilizations in the world including, the...

, Muhajir
Muhajir
Muhajir or Mohajir is an Arabic word meaning immigrant. The Islamic calendar Hejira starts when Muhammad and his companions left Mecca for Medina in what is known as Hijra. They were called Muhajirun...

s, Kashmiris
Kashmiri people
The Kashmiri people are a Dardic linguistic group living in Kashmir Valley in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and parts of the Pakistani territory of Azad Kashmir who speak the Kashmiri language...

, Seraikis
Saraiki people
The Saraiki people or Multani people are an ethnic group from the central and south-eastern areas of Pakistan, especially the former princely state of Bahawalpur and the districts of Multan, Lodhran, Vehari, Khanewal, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh,...

, Pakhtuns
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

, Balochi
Baloch people
The Baloch or Baluch are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples. Baluch people mainly inhabit the Balochistan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western Asia....

s, Memons, Bohras
Mustaali
The Musta‘lī Ismā'īlī Muslims are so named because they accept Al-Musta'li as the nineteenth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir...

 and Ismaili
Ismaili
' is a branch of Shia Islam. It is the second largest branch of Shia Islam, after the Twelvers...

s etc.

Steel Town has all the features of an advanced system of living. Pakistan Steel Hospital, previously Hundred Bed Hospital has been providing medical facilities to the employees of Pakistan Steel Mills.

There are several Schools and colleges in Steel Town. Pakistan Steel Cadet College is located in Steel Town.

Near Cadet College there is a Cricket Stadium, Hockey Stadium and a football ground.

Officers' Club is a place for all social and cultural activities.
For shopping there is Pakistani Market and a similar Russian Market in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n blocks.

Quaid-e-Azam Park is located in Steel Town, it is a worth visiting beautiful park. On holidays people of localities as well as from all over karachi city arrange picnics to visit this place and enjoy leisure time.

Steel Town Police Station, Utility Stores, the residency of the Chairman of Pakistan Steel Mills
Pakistan Steel Mills
The Pakistan Steel Mills, PSM, is the state-owned producer of long rolled steel and heavy iron products in Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan. The Pakistan Steel Mill is the country's largest industrial undertaking having a production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of steel...

 and a public Library are located near Quid-e-Azam Park.
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