New Punjab Girls Hostel

Overview

The TV lounge here is where residents tend to gather once the day's classes wind down, and it's one of the touches that gives this Block E hostel a more lived-in, communal feel than the average studen... read more

The TV lounge here is where residents tend to gather once the day's classes wind down, and it's one of the touches that gives this Block E hostel a more lived-in, communal feel than the average student setup. The location is Punjab College for Women near Holy Family Road, a settled corner of Satellite Town with a chemist barely 200 metres off and Holy Family Hospital close at hand. Monthly rent runs from PKR 28,750 to PKR 42,500, shifting with how the rooms are shared. Security is taken seriously — CCTV watches the premises, and a UPS keeps things running when the grid drops out, which in a Pindi summer is often enough to matter. For study there's both a dedicated area and tables in the rooms, and Wi-Fi reaches throughout. Every girl is set up with a bed and mattress. VU Rawalpindi is about 1.3 km away, roughly a sixteen-minute walk, with Preston Islamabad and NUTECH sitting further out for those enrolled there. It's a comfortable, secure base for a student who values a bit of shared space to unwind in alongside the essentials.