Shams Pir is an island located in Keamari Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan along the western end of Karachi Harbor, close to Sandspit Beach and Kakapir. It is administered as part of the Karachi West district. Approximately 5,000 people now live on the Island. Shams Pir is named for a Mazar (shrine) of a saint named Hazrat Sham Pir which located on the island.
Shams Pir is an old village which, like Bhit Shah Island and Baba Island, predates the formal establishment of Karachi.
It is said that Kakkapir was established about a hundred years ago by fishermen hailing from Lyari which at that time was itself a fishing village. The families migrating out of Lyari are said to have taken up abode both in Kakkapir and Shamspir.
Location
| Keamari, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |