Latifabad is named after the renowned Sindhi Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

The locals that settled the town at its start were racially of a mixed population but as the city experienced its worst traditional demonstrations between Sindhis and Muhajirs in the 1980s, the city was divided into two sub parts Sindhi settling the town of Qasimabad and the Urdu speaking took over Latifabad.

To this date, the classification continues yet people prefer using the numbered units, major political parties in Latifabad are PTI, MQM, PSP, PPP.

There are Handicraft industries, including silver and gold work, ornamented silks,[5] and embroidered leather saddles, etc.

School annual functions, stage dramas, motivational speech by famous speakers also delivered in this council.

The largest mental asylum or hospital for the mentally ill in Pakistan (some people deem it the largest in Asia) named after Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney (1812–1878), civil engineer and master constructor of Bombay, the Jehangir Institute of Psychiatry holds ground in Latifabad unit 3, commonly known to the locals as Giddu Bandar.