Pakistan Quarters, Karachi

Pakistan Quarters is a neighborhood in Karachi East district of Karachi, Pakistan. It was previously administered as part of Jamshed Town, which was disbanded in 2011. It is one of the government colonies like Martin Quarters, Clyton Quarters or Jamshed Quarters in Karachi, where housing unite is allotted to an employee of federal government according to entitlement and transfer of house allowance from their monthly remuneration as rent to the Estate Office, a department in the Ministry of Housing & Works. Retired government servants may, for a specific period, continue the occupancy of their allotted residence on payment of standard rent in the Estate Office. It is also described that after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, thousands of Muslim migrated to Pakistan and faced housing crisis. In 1953, Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra had initiated the housing scheme for the refugees including Pakistan Quarters. ()