Abbasi Shaheed
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Abbasi Shaheed ( or Paposhnagar) is one of the neighborhoods of Liaquatabad Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Abbasi Shaheed neighborhood is located in Nazimabad around the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. This neighborhood was previously known as Paposhnagar (Pa means foot ; posh means to wear ; nagar means town) due to footwear and leather workshops and boutiques in the 1950-1970s. After the construction of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, this area slowly got identified with the hospital. The footwear workshops have moved to other industrial and commercial areas of Karachi. The majority of the people in this middle class neighborhood are Muhajirs, who migrated after the independence of Pakistan.