Before the independence of Pakistan, the area of the present day North Nazimabad was semi-arid land with small Sindhi and Kalmati Baloch villages nearly 15 km from downtown Karachi.

The Government of Pakistan bought the land in 1950 from the local landlord and tribal leader Masti Brohi Khan in order to resettle the Muslim immigrants from India that were living in tent cities in central Karachi.

North Nazimabad was planned and designed in the late 1950s by Carlo Scarpa and Aldo Rossi, the Italian planners and architects.

In January 2005, Karachi city mayor Naimatullah Khan inaugurated a model park for the people of North Nazimabad.

[4] In November 2007, then Karachi city mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal announced that a gymkhana would be constructed on a 4.7 acres of land to provide recreation facilities to the middle-class people of North Nazimabad.