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This particular area opposite the N. J. V. School, like most old Karachi neighbourhoods, has a number of pre-partition buildings constructed when the British held sway over the subcontinent. Some may argue that the Radio Pakistan offices were a post-partition product. It is not true. Before it started its broadcasting services (and did a good job at that) the site was a Karachi municipal board property. This is what a man who works for an in house Urdu magazine, Ahang, believes.

Originally the area that spanned the veterinary facility, extending towards a little before the main Radio Pakistan building, had barracks which were used as horse stables. They are still there, albeit in a different form. All of them are now part of the broadcasting organisation's workplace.

As for Radio Pakistan, it was set up in 1948 at an intelligence school located on Queen's Road. After a year of its functioning it was shifted to where it is now - on M. A. Jinnah Road. Ever since, the building has assumed historical import because of quality broadcasting programming, and luminaries such as Z. A. Bukhari, S. M. Saleem and Abdul Majid who worked here and transformed it into an institution.

[Source: Karachi Legacies of Empires by Peerzada Salman]

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