![]() ![]() The market contains a number of grocery, retail and garment shops as well as eateries and restaurants. The Karim Block Market is a local market area situated in the Karim Block of the town along Wahdat Road. They come in crowds to enjoy the rides, greenery and the shade on summer nights. Families spend their holiday time enjoying rides, food and sunlight on winter afternoons. The park is known for its vast lush green gardens, enjoyments rides, different food stalls, boating area for paddle and motorboats, an artificial waterfall and an artificial hill for one's climbing and hiking experience. Ali Jabbar is a famous personality of this area. It was opened to general public in April, 1982. ![]() This park has been a source of entertainment and enjoyment in the area for almost three decades now. It also houses the Karim Block Market nearby.Īllama Iqbal Town consists of a total of 22 residential divisions called 'blocks' listed alphabetically:Īsif, Badr, Chenab, College, Gulshan, Huma, Jahanzeb, Khyber, Kamran, Karim, Kashmir, Mehran, Muslim, Nargis, Neelam, Nishtar, Nizam, Pak, Rachna, Raza, Ravi, Sikander, Sutlej, Umar and Zeenat. The oldest open university in Pakistan Allama Iqbal Open University's Lahore campus is located in Raza Block of Allama Iqbal Town. Major commercial markets are Karim Block Market (adjacent to Umer Block and Karim Block) - famous for the garments shops located there) and Moon Market (Dubai Chowk). Neighboring localities constitute of Wahdat Colony, Ichhra, Samanabad, Garden Town, Mustafa Town, Sabzazar and Said Pur. Moare means corner in the Urdu language) and leads towards Wahdat Road and then the Punjab University campus. It also has a parking plaza in Moon Market.Ĭollege block, Pak block, Asif Block, Kashmir block, Huma block and Jahanzeb block are situated on the main boulevard which starts from Multan Road (the intersection famously known as 'Scheme moare'. Iqbal town's main boulevard is one of the busiest road of Lahore. However, most of them have now moved to the posh suburban areas of the city. Because the Shahnoor Studios and Bari studios are situated very close to the area, many film actors and actresses used to live here in the past. Iqbal Town has been home to famous actors and actresses of Pakistani film industry, Lollywood. Its boundaries are marked by Multan Road to the west and north, and by Wahdat Road to the south. It was previously famed for its name in Urdu, 'Sola Sau Acre سولہ سو ایکڑ' (meaning 1600 acres), due to its area. Development was started in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is named after Allama Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan. Allama Iqbal Town ( Urdu: علامہ اقبال ٹاؤن) (also known as Iqbal Town or abbreviated as AIT) is a commercial and a residential locality in the south-western Lahore. ![]()
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