PECHS
Pakistan Employees Cooperative Housing Society (PECHS) (Urdu: پی ای سی ایچ ایس) is a neighborhood in Karachi East district of Karachi, Pakistan. It was founded Mehmood Ahmad Nizami in the year 1950, three years after Pakistan was founded by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Mehmood Ahmad Nizami lived in this same society and also created the first house in PECHS, Block II where some of his descendants now live. It was previously administered as part of Jamshed Town,[1] which was disbanded in 2011.
PECHS پی ای سی ایچ ایس | |
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| District | Karachi East |
| City | Karachi |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | (GMT +5) |
Over 98 percent of the population is Muslim with small Christian and Hindu and other minorites.
The Karachi Japanese School is located in PECHS.[2]
Commecs College is located in PECHS.
References
- Jamshed Town - Government of Karachi Archived 2006-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Home page (Archive). Karachi Japanese School. Retrieved on 4 January 2014. "33-F, Block-6, P.E.C.H.S., Karachi, PAKISTAN"
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