The Angoori Bagh project came about due to the interest in housing for the poor by the Pakistan People's Party's leftist finance minister, Dr. Mubashir Hasan. I remember meeting Mubashir in the office of Tajuddin Bhamani, a giant name in architectural consultancy at the time, who had invited me to discuss collaboration in the design of an architectural competition. My first encounter with Tajuddin had occurred in an assembly of a select group of distinguished architects organized by the CDA (Capital Development Authority) in early 1965 to design housing units for the capital city (Excerpt from the article)