[3][4] Pakistan Chowk hosted the Purana Tonga stand, a taxi and Victoria station, as well as well-known cafes such as Café Saadi and Kaisar Restaurant.
[3] The Shahani family, Hindu-Sindhi educationists and writers, promoted Pakistan Chowk as a center for the printing press.
[3] Gidumai translated sacred texts, while Kewalram became a philosopher, writing a Sufi treatise and the first feminist novel in the Sindhi language.
[3] Pakistan Chowk was also home to the hostel culture of NED University of Engineering & Technology, providing accommodations for students and alumni.
[3] Hostels such as Sevakunj, Mihtaram, and Jinnah Courts, along with reading rooms, were instrumental in the area's educational history.