Saddar is Rawalpindi's cantonment bazaar, built during the British period to serve the garrison and the civilian population that grew up around it. It is more orderly than Raja Bazaar — the streets are wider, the buildings more recognisably colonial in structure, and the commercial mix includes bookshops, tailors, camera shops, and a scattering of restaurants alongside the usual cloth and household goods.
The secondhand bookshops are worth seeking out. Saddar has a longer tradition of English-language bookselling than most Pakistani cities of comparable size, a legacy of the cantonment's educated officer class, and it is still possible to find interesting material at very low prices. The area around Saddar also retains more of its colonial-era building stock than most of the cantonment: look up occasionally and the arched verandas and brick facades of the old commercial blocks are still there above the modern shopfronts.