Hall Road, Lahore
Hall Road is a commercial road near the historic Mall Road in Lahore, Pakistan. Like the Mall Road, it is surrounded by buildings built by the British before Pakistan's independence in 1947. The name of the road comes from the fact that the British had built 4 huge halls along the road, which catered to meetings, exhibitions, etc.
Today those halls have been converted into commercial buildings and is the Hub of Lahore's electronics, TVs, Mobiles, Computers etc. Hall road Lahore is Asia's largest market of electronics, Computers, Magnets, Electronic Components, CCTV Wire & Cables, Mobiles & accessories, DVDs, etc. It is full of retailers, and wholesalers, and is an extremely busy area due to cheap and readily available electronic imports and unlicensed DVDs.
Hall Road is the largest electronics market of province of Punjab. It has shops for every electronics item from a resistor & silicon chip to complete product. Most of the products are imported from China. Some products e.g. UPS, Stabilizers, dish-antenna and many type electronic kits are designed and assembled here. The products produced here are cheap but are of average or low quality. Many sellers of local products have average customer support and practically there is no warrantee of local made products. The good thing is most of them give option for repairing services on cost to cost basis or some times free.
Hall Road also houses the Cathedral School which was established in 1881 under The Management of Lahore Diocesan Board of Education.