Places with the same name are also found in many other garrison cities of Pakistan and India, such as Peshawar, Lahore, Kanpur, Ambala, Meerut and Delhi.

Located to the south of Mall Road,[1] Lalkurti Rawalpindi is a bazaar and a residential area from the British colonial era.

[5] Lalkurti has a population of around 200,000, which includes a majority of Punjabis/Pothoharis and a minority of Urdu speaking Mohajirs, Kashmiris and Pathans.

Besides Muslim majority, a significant minority of Christians[6] and a very small number of Hindus also reside at Lalkurti.

The road was named after prominent Rawalpindi businessman Mamoo Jee Hakimjee and it was here in NUST's Ayub Hall that the national legislative assembly sessions were held for some time in the 1960s.