Model Colony, Karachi

Other important buildings in the vicinity are the Security Press, which is Pakistan's mint, and the SOS Village, which houses about 200 orphans.

Most of the residents in this neighborhood belong to the Muhajir community tracing their roots to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

[2] According to local folklore, the Model Colony was envisioned by Fatima Jinnah, the sister of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Syed Mohammad Hussain Qadri, who was very close to both her and her brother.

She asked the town planner, Mr. Makki, to lay out a plan for a 'model Muhajir colony'.

The colony has seen sustained deterioration as a result of increased population and ethnic riots that reached their peak from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.