Latifabad

Latifabad لطيف آباد
Town
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
City	Hyderabad
Population
• Total	1 million (2,016)

Latifabad (Sindhi: لطيف آباد‎ ,Urdu: لطِيف آباد‎), is a town in the southern suburbs of the city of Hyderabad, in Sindh, Pakistan.

Latifabad is named after the noted Sindhi Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai., its initial denizens were Sindhi but after communal riots in 1980s between Sindhi speaking and Urdu speaking people; it was populated as an extension to the city of Hyderabad to settle hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees from India fleeing from anti-Muslim pograms, along with the town of Qasimabad.

The locals that settled the town at its inception were ethnically of a mixed population but as the city experienced its worst ethnic riots between Sindhis and Muhajirs in the 1980s, the city was divided into Sindhi settling the town of Qasimabad and the Mohajirs settling down in Latifabad.

Serving an ethnic majority of the Muhajir community, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to grow. The land in Latifabad was further divided into sectors, sub-classifying it into numbered units. For political rallies, MQM would specify areas in their sector notation rather than the numbered unit. To this date, the classification continues yet people prefer using the numbered units.

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