Karachi Old and New Street Names

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Anselm Joseph (Of St. Patricks High School) as done a wonderful job of collecting old & new names of various streets & roads of Karachi:- There are more if you know please add in the comments:
These are:-
Old Names – New Names:-
Atmaram Street -Bagh-e-Zohra Road;
Barnes Street -Jamila Street;
Bonus Road -Fatima Jinnah Road;
Bunder Road -M. A. Jinnah Road;
Burnes Road -Mohammad Bin Qasim Road;
Clark Street -Shahrah-e-Iraq;
Clifton Road -Khayaban-e-Iqbal;
Commissariat Road- Kiyani Shaheed Road;
Connaught Road- Chaudhry Rehmat Ali Road;
Cowel Road -Sarmad Road;
Drigh Road -Shara-e-Faisal;
Elphinstone Street -Zaibunnisa Street;
Embankment Road- Nawab Mahabat Khan Road;
Frere Road- Shahrah-e-Liaquat;
Frere Street -Dr. Daudpota Road;
Garden Road- Sir Aga Khan III Road;
Gizri Road -Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman Road;
Golf Club Road- McLallan Road;
Grant Road -Hasrat Mohani Road;
Harchandrai Road- Hussain Bhai Bandukwala
Road & Siddiq Wahab Road;
Harris Road -Aga Khan Road;
Havelock Road -Aiwan-e-Sadr Road;
Hiradharam Road -Mohammad Ali Bogra Road;
Hira Lal Ganatra Road- Aslam Road;
Hospital Road -Rafiqui Shaheed Road;
Ingle Road- M.R. Kiyani Road;
Inverarity Road- Sarwar Shaheed Road;
Kattyan Road -Stock Exchange Road;
Kingsway -Shahrah-e-Kamal Ata Turk;
Kutchery Road – Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road;
Lawrence Road -Nishtar Road ;
Lidbetter Road- Japani Road;
Mansfield Street -Syedna Burhanuddin Road ;
McLeod Road- I.I.Chundrigar Road ;
Napier Road -Shahrah-e-Altaf Hussain;
Napier Street -Mir Karamali Talpur Road;
Newnham Road -Fakhr Matri Road ;
Preedy Street –
Princess Street- Chand Bibi Road
Queens Road -Moulvi Tamizuddin Khan Road;
Queensway -Shahrah-e-Iraq;
Ramachandra Temple Road -Babar Street;
Rampart Road -Adamji Dawood Road;
Scandal Point Road- Club Road;
Solomon David Road -Suleman Dawood Road ;
Somerset Street -Raja Ghazanfar Ali Road;
Srichand Vishindas Road -Haji Kassim Sommra Street;
Tahilram K. Road -G. Allana Road ;
Udhavdas V. Street -Soomra Gali ;
Victoria Road -Abdullah Haroon Road;
Vishwanath Patel Road- Aslam Road; &
Wood Street -Talpur Road.
OTHER PLACES (Added by AHK 2018)
Jehangir Kothari Parade – Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim
Sangster Road:  Ahmad Muneer Shaheed Road
University Road- Jamiluddin Aali Road (2018)
Will continue to add…..AHK
Any photo of the old street sign will be welcome.

About Amin H. Karim MD

Graduate of Dow Medical College Class of 1977.
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1 Response to Karachi Old and New Street Names

  1. Syed Naqvi says:

    New Queens Road changed to Molvi TammizUddin Khan Road.

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