Sariki Wasabe Ka Aik Manzar

Rohi Rang

DPO Sb. Ka tahna Choti ka Vist

Choti Zareen

Sabiq Prsident Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari kea Sher Choti Zareen Kae Main

Bazar ka Aik Manzar.

DGKhan

Fort Munro

 

  

  

  

Fort Munro is a hill station in Dera Ghazi Khan which lies on the Quetta Road at 85 km from Dera Ghazi Khan city in the Sulaiman Mountains Range. Its altitude is 1800 meters (6,470 feet) above sea level and attracts many people for short stays during the summer.

Hotels and Restaurants

There are lot of luxurious hotels and restaurants including a TDCP resort in Fort Munro to entertain the visitors.

Places of Interest

* Dames Lake is an excellent lake with boating facility
* Trimon Fall is a magical fall in mountains
* Girdu is an adventurous route to reach Fort Munro
* Jheel is another lake with beautiful view
* Ganji Pahari is a famous mountain
* Children Park with majestic viewpoint of the valley

People and Culture

The people of Fort Munroe are nomads mainly. They are usually bilingual speaking Balochi (called as Sulemani here) and Saraiki. Nurr is a traditional form of music and Jhumar is a traditional dance of the area.

Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari سردار فاروق احمد خان لغاری

Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari (born May 29, 1940) was President of Pakistan from November 14, 1993 until December 2, 1997. He was the first Balouch President of Pakistan.

Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari was born in Choti Zareen, a village of Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab on May 29, 1940 during the British Raj. He comes from a political family that has been active in politics in this part of the world since the pre-colonial days. His father Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari and grand father Nawab Sir Muhmammad Jamal Khan Leghari had both been ministers.leghari is the major landowner who owns about 2500 acres of land.

After his initial schooling at Aitchison College, Lahore where he was the head boy and declared the Best Leaving Student of 1957. He graduated with honours from the Forman Christian College, Lahore, Punjab where again he was amongst the best students, he went on to study PPE at College Oxford University.

After returning to Pakistan he joined the Civil Service and served for some time in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). On the death of his father he resigned from service and came back to his roots to look after the tribal affairs of his tribe. He is the head (Sardar) of the Leghari tribe.

He joined the Pakistan Peoples Party, and was made leader of the party upon the imprisonment of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He was put under house-arrest several times during the military regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.

In 1993, with the express support of the Pakistan Peoples Party he ran for the office of President and won the election against Wasim Sajjad. In November 1996, utilizing his powers under Article 58 2(b) of the Constitution of Pakistan[1], he dismissed the Peoples' Party Government of Benazir Bhutto on charges of corruption, lawlessness and extra judicial killings.

Following the word of the Constitution of Pakistan he held elections for the National Assembly in 1997. The elections were won by the Pakistan Muslim League and Nawaz Sharif was elected Prime Minister. A decisive majority in the lower house of parliament led the Sharif Government to remove the controversial 8th amendment from the constitution of Pakistan. Leghari saw this as a threat to his power and conspired with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sajjad Ali Shah, to sack the Sharif Government. This led to an uprising against him and Shah, forcing both to resign.

Instead of retiring from politics, he went on to create his own political party, the Millat Party, which entered into a coalition of seven parties, known as National Alliance, to participate in the general elections of 2002. The National Alliance, emerged as the 3rd largest group in the parliament and won 13 seats in the National Assembly. He entered in a coalition with the majority party to form the government, and his son Awais Leghari was made a federal minister for Telecom and IT, as a consequence, and another of his deputies Yar Mohammad Rind also was inducted in the Federal cabinet. Later Mohammad Ali Durrani and his niece Sumaira Malik from his party were inducted into the Federal Cabinet.

With National Alliance being merged with ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Q) in May 2004 to form united Pakistan Muslim League, Farooq Leghari also became the member of the newly constituted party, with his son Awais Leghari being one of its senior vice presidents.

His elder son Jamal Leghari has recently been elected to the Senate of Pakistan. His daughter Faryal Leghari is an analyst and researcher in Security & Terrorism Studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.

Sardar Muhammad khan leghari

Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari PP-243 (Dera Ghazi Khan-IV)
Member: Standing Committee on Local Government and Rural Development
Academic QualificationsB.Sc. : Lahore School of Economics F.Sc. : Aitchison College Lahore Matriculation : Aitchison College Lahore
Party Affiliation
Pakistan Muslim League (See other MPAs of this party)
Father's Name, Sardar Maqsood Ahmed Khan Leghari
Marital Status Married
Date of Birth 1977-06-04
Place of Birth Lahore
Permanent Contact
P.O. Box Choti Zareen, Dera Ghazi KhanPhone:0641-566206 (Res), 0300-8463400 (Mobile)
Present Contact 12/G, Gulberg-II, Lahore
Phone: 042-5764593
Relatives in present or past assemblies
Relationship Name Parliament Period
Father SardarMahmoodKhan Leghari National Assembly 1972-1977
Father SardarMaqsoodAhmed KhanLeghari National Assembly 1985-1988
Grand FatherSardarMahmood KhanLeghari Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 1972-1977
Father SardarMaqsoodAhmed KhanLeghari Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 1977
Father SardarMaqsoodAhmed KhanLeghari Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 1988-1990
Father SardarMaqsoodAhmed KhanLeghari Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 1990-1993
Father SardarMaqsoodAhmed KhanLeghari Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 1993-1996
Father SardarMaqsoodAhmed KhanLeghari Provincial Assembly of the Punjab1997-1999
Uncle SardarMansoorLeghari Senate 1997
Personal Career & Interests
Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari son of Sardar Maqsood Ahmed Khan Leghari was born on June 4, 1977 in Lahore. He obtained the degree of B.Sc. Finance in 2001 from Lahore School of Economics. He has been elected as Member, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in General Elections 2002. His grandfather, Sardar Mahmood Khan Leghari was Member Punjab Assembly during 1972-77 and Member National Assembly during 1965; his father was Member Punjab Assembly during 1977, 1988-90, 1990-93, 1993-96 and 1997-99; and also served as Provincial Minister during 1988-89 and 1993-96; and as Member, National Assembly/Federal Minister during 1985-88; his uncle, Sardar Mansoor Leghari was Member of both Punjab and National Assembly; and also served as Senator during 1997

Sardar Muhammad Jafar Khan Leghari

Sardar Muhammad Jafar Khan Leghari
PML-Q
سردار محمد جعفر خان لغاری
MNA NA-174 (Rajanpur-I)
Pakistan Muslim League-Q

Sardar Muhammed Jamal Khan Leghari

Zila Nazim District D.G.Khan 2001-2005

Socail Action Board District Dera Ghazi Khan Chairman 1994-1996

Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari

Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari was born on March 22, 1971. He was elected for his first term as MNA from the platform of NA. He is politically affilated with MP. Currently serving as federal minister, he holds the portfolio of Information Technology and Telecommunications.Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari graduated from University of Rochester, U.S.A in 1994 with economics and political science as his major subjects. He was elected as MPA Punjab Assembly for the term of 1997-1999. He is an agriculturist by profession.Married, Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari enjoys hunting and playing tennis.

Political Residents

Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari,Former President of Pakistan, Currently Member National Assembly
Sardar Maqsood Ahmed Khan Leghari, Former Federal and Provincial Minister, Former Chairman Dera Ghazi Khan District Council, and Currently Zila Nazim Dera Ghazi Khan.
Sardar Mansoor Ahmed Khan Leghari, Former member Senate of Pakistan, Former Member National Assembly, Former Member Punjab Assembly and Former Chairman Dera Ghazi Khan District Council.
Sardar Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari Former Chairman Rajanpur District Council, Currently Member National Assembly
Mrs. Mina Leghari, (W/O Sardar Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari, Member National Assembly
Sardar Muhammad Jamal Khan Leghari, Former Nazim of DG Khan, currently a member of the Senate of Pakistan
Sardar Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, Former Federal Minister IT and Telecomunication
Sardar Sajjad Ahmed Khan Leghari,Former Chairman Dera Ghazi Khan District Council
Sardar Muhammad Yusuf Khan Leghari, Member Punjab Assembly
Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari, Member Punjab Assembly
Sardar Muhammad Mohsin Khan Leghari, Member Punjab Assembly
Sardar Shabbir Ahmed Khan Leghari, Pakistan

Choti Zareen

Choti Zareen is the ancestral village of the Balochi Aliani clan of the well-known Leghari tribe. It is located in the Dera Ghazi Khan District of Southern Punjab, Pakistan.
The former President of Pakistan Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari comes from this village. This little village probably has the most number of legislators and public representatives for a town of about 10,000. it has 4 members sitting in the National Assembly, 3 in the Provincial Assembly, one senator, The District Nazim and the Tehsil Nazim. The Talpur Mirs of Sindh are a sub-tribe of the Legharis and migrated to Sindh from here. They migrated to the Sindh as mercenaries at the invitation of the Kalhora, rulers. They were accompanied by many other Baloch clans like the Jatois, Khosas, Chandias, etc.
Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari is the current Tumundar (Chief) of the Leghari tribe. He is the son of Sardar Mohammad Khan Leghari and grandson of Nawab Muhammad Jamal Khan Leghari, formerly Sir Muhammad Jamal Khan, who gave up his title during the Partition of Pakistan

DCO Sb. LOGOO KAE SEHKAYAT SUN REHY HAIN.

DCO Sb. LOGOO KAE SEHKAYAT SUN REHY HAIN.

CHOTI ZAREEN MAIN DCO Sb.KI KUHLI KACHRY.

Elakey kae logoo nae bari tadad main serkat ki aur apnae masle sae agh kia.

Writers

Writers These are siraiki and Urdu writers of Dera Ghazi Khan 'Noor Muhammad Sael Siraiki poet 'Ahmed Khan Tariq Well known siraiki poet. His books are gharon dar tareen, makon see lagday 'Aziz Shahid These collections of his poetry are famous.Phul Sarmi de.and Man Derya te
'Ramzan Talib Siraiki poet 'Qazi Razi His books Multani Qaeda(primer)and Gul-i-Anar are famous Ghulam Hussain Zaer Siraiki poet No published collection 'Kaif Ansari Urdu poet.Two collections of his poetry has been published .Kis ne dekha mera chira.Zanjeeroon ka Noha
'Mohsin Naqvi Shaheed Urdu poet . Band-i-Qaba is his first collection of poetry. He wrote poetry on Karbala.
'Nadeem Jafri Urdu poet .Khana-i-Zanjeer is his collection of poetry 'Shafqt Kazmi Urdu poet .Hasrat kada and Daghi-hasrat are his books .He was pupil of Hasrat Mohani and teacher of Muhsin Naqvi 'Sarwar Karbali Siraiki poet. His two Siraiki collections were published after his death.Naghme nok Sanan de and Sijh da Seena Amer Faheem Jagdi Akh da Khab is his first collection of Siraiki fictions (born in Dera Ghazi Khan) is a Poet (First Urdu Poet whose complete book is on-line since 1998) and based in USA.
'Zaka Ullah Anjum Malghani siraiki and Urdu poet and columnist . His first book of poetry Khawahishon ka Sahra 'Iqbal Sokary' siraiki poet and writer of many siraiki books
Dilber Hussain - siraiki and Urdu poet and columnist. Famous publications:- "Wasebi Sukhanwar Part 1,02,03) It is total disscussion on poets and writer of Dera Ghazi Khan. Further - "Guftar-e-Dilber", "Lamha Lamha Ibrat" Yadgar-e-Akram" & Naksh-e-Kamal" Dua-e-Kumail in saraiki Traslation. Dilber is energetic, enthusiastic and social worker. He is active participant in local literature organizations like Bazm-e-Akram, Rooh-e-Adab- Kot Chutta” Qandel-e-Adab – Notak Mehmeed.. Dr Najma Shaheen Khosa MBBS - Her favourate Book is " Phool sy Bichri Khushboo" - urdu poetry Dr. Ghani Ahsen MBBS - Religious poetry contribution " Imam-e-tishnagi" - urdu poetry Fareed Sajid Saraiki Poet - '' " Chinty" is favourate book- sariki poetry
'Dr.Manzoor Afaqi' Religious Person - His best publication " La-raib-bfi" Best Resarch work on the Book of Allah - " The book which have No doubt" Javed Ahsen " Ahsn-e-Taqveem" is favourate book Qudsia Kousar Bhatti She is ret. educationist and have very good poetry in Saraiki and Urdu Dr. Muhammad Hashim Chishti :' (Writer,Poet)Widely known and respected in sataiki and urdu literary circles of Dera Ghazi Khan 'Muhammad Shafeeq Moeen Chishti :' A young poet with fascinating work both in saraiki and urdu poetry 'Muhammad Naveed/Waqas Ahmad Chishti :' Emerging Poets

Parks of City

D.C Garden
Its area is 81 canals and 3 marlas. Divisional Public School and Wild Life Park was also the part of DC Garden. Although it is administrative and residential area but it has natural greenery same like past. D.G.Khan administration has made the D.G.Khan officers club, where the officers use to play games like squash, badminton, and tennis. It has the beautiful building in this area. Govt. employees, advocates, politicians, journalists ,and the local people are also the member of this club.

Company Bagh
This is called the second garden of the city. East Indian Company made the company bagh in every district. This is known as company bagh. Its area is 162 canals and 12 Marlas. In 1948 a friends club was made in this area. Company bagh is used to play Football, Hockey, Volley Ball, Badminton, Table Tennis and for other games.

Ghazi Park
This is the one of the beautiful parks of the city. This is also known as Behari Park. It is only one park of the city where the entrance is not with out ticket. Exhibition has arranged in one time in the year since 1999. the time of this exhibition is February to March.

Taunsa Barrage
Taunsa Barrage is situated in the northern side of the city D.G.Khan at the distance of 60 km. It is worth seeing place. It is also a good picnic point. Many school trips and families use to go for recreation.

The River Bank of River Indus
The western bank of the river Indus is a peaceful picnic point for the peoples of D.G.Khan. From here the view of the river is looks like most beautiful. It is also known as the name of GHAZI GHAT. Ghazi Ghat welcomes the people of upper Punjab before entering in the city D.G.Khan.

Zoo
D. G. Khan has also a Zoo that recently developed by the great efforts of Mr.Abdul Aleem Shah Ex MPA Dera Ghazi Khan City like Lahore Zoo. It is the good place for recreation. It has many types of animals and birds. its entrance is with ticket on Cash. It is known as wild life park Dera Ghazi Khan. It is controlled by the Department Deputy Warden.

Other Places

Sangam Chowk
On the south tip of the city there is a chowk named Sangam Chowk because it is said that Dera Ghazi Khan city is at the centre of Pakistan and Sangam Chowk is named so as from this Chowk you can take to any provincial capital road in Pakistan.

Shopping Centres
The following shopping Markets/Centres are situated in City D.G.Khan:
Grain market of district D.G.Khan is well renewed in the south Punjab. Most of the farmer and traders of the region are affiliated with the grain market. Wheat, Cotton, and Rice are the major

crops of the area
Rani Bazar is another business center situated in city D.G.Khan. All kinds of jewelry and beautiful dresses of ladies are available in this market. Mostly ladies purchase their needy articles from this market.
Cloth Market is another business centre of the city and situated in Saddar Bazar near Committee Gollai.
Electronic Market falls within the middest of the city i.e round the Gollai Committee.
Medicine Markets is situated near Civil Hospital D.G.Khan. All kind of medicine are available from the market.
Vegetable and Fruit Market is situated within the area near the Faridi Bazar. A huge quantity of Apples, Khubani, Aalobukhara and other kind of vegetable are being brought in this market from Bluchistan and thereafter the same are being supplied to the other district of Punjab Province.
Mobile Market is a big mobile market in heart of Dera Ghazi Khan. Every type of mobiles and mobile related shops are in this area. Business and Industry
Two prominent employers in Dera Ghazi Khan are the D.G.Khan Cement Company and the Al-Ghazi Tractor Company. It is considered that these companies, along with various other flour mills, companies in the cotton chemical, texile industries, as well as rice, sugar, and ghee mills, form the backbone of the Pakistan's economy.

Transport
Dera Ghazi Khan is well connected with the country by a wide network of roads, railways and airways.
Also there is an airport, situated 20 km away from city, on Sakhi Sarwar Road called Dera Ghazi Khan Airport (DEA). It provides weekly 6 flights, 1 for Lahore, 1 for Islamabad and 4 for Karachi.Mostly Fokkers are used,from karachi ,as well as from lahore. PIA is the only airline operating in this area.
Dera Ghazi Khan(DEA) is suitable only for Fokkers and small jets, e.g. Boeing 737 More technical data about this airport is available at Dera Ghazi Khan

History D.G.Khan

History D.G.KHANThe city was founded at the close of the 15th century and named after Nawab Ghazi Khan Mirrani, son of Nawab Haji Khan Mirrani, a Balochi chieftain, who had declared independence from the Langhi Dynasty Sultans of Multan Together with two other Deras i.e. settlements, Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Fateh Khan, it gave its name toDerajat. Derajat eventually came into the possession of the British after the Sikh War in 1849 and was divided into two districts: Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail Khan. After the partition of india, many of the city's Hindu residents settled in Derawal Nagar colony of Delhi, India The district of Rajanpur was later carved out of the Dera Ghazi Khan district. Some of them also settled in various part of India, including Bhiwani, Delhi, Jhansi, Ranchi, Ambala and Haridwar.Dera Ghazi Khan was founded in 15th century by Amar a Tribal Sardar of Mirani tribe. The old city of Dera Ghazi Khan was situated at the distance of 10 miles (16 km) towards east of the present city. In 1908, the old city of Dera Ghazi Khan was abolished due to heavy flood in the river Indus. Resultantly the existing city of Dera Ghazi Khan was came into being in the year 1910. The city is divided into different blocks. The British ruler established colonial system in the continent and declared D.G.Khan as district in the year 1849. General Court Land was appointed as first Deputy Commissioner of this District. Keeping in view the rapidly increasing population of the area and deteriorating law and order situation district D.G.Khan was divided in two districts i.e. D.G.Khan and Rajanpur. Presently there are two revenue sub division of the District. A tribal belt/political area spread along with western side of the District. Mirani tribe has been extinct three centuries ago. The population according to the 1901 census of India (then a British colony) was 471,149 - the great majority being Bloch Muslims. The frontier tribes on the Dera Ghazi Khan border include the LASHARI, JARWAR, QASRANI Bozdar Khosa Leghari Khetran, Gurchani,Mazari,JASKANI Marri ,mirani,Bughti and Malghani Ramdani tribes. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition published in 1911 mentions Baluchs of this area as:“Frank and open in his manners, fairly truthful, faithful to his word, temperate and enduring, and looking upon courage as the highest virtue, the true Baluch of the Derajat is a pleasant man to have dealings with ”There are petroleum and gas reservoirs in district Dera Ghazi Khan at sites rodho, zindapir, afiband, Dhodhak etc. The Koh-e-Sulaiman Range constitutes a major part of this area, This range is full of naturl deposits like Marble & Lime Stone. A big cement plant DG Cement is also situated in Kofla Sattai Tehsil Dera Ghazi Khan.
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Dera Ghazi Khan (Urdu: ڈیرہ غازی خان) is a ditrict in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The district covers an area of 5,306 m² and it is a long narrow strip of country, 198 m. in length, sloping gradually from the hills which form its western boundary to the river Indus on the east.Below the hills the country is high and arid, generally level, but sometimes rolling in sandy undulations, and much intersected by hill torrents, 201 in number. With the exceptions of two, these streams dry up after the rains, and their influence is only felt for a few miles below the hills.The eastern portion of the district is at a level sufficiently low to benefit by the floods of the Indus. A barren tract intervenes between these zones, and is beyond the reach of the hill streams on the one hand and of the Indus on the other. Although liable to great extremes of temperature, and to a very scanty rainfall, the district is not unhealthy.The Sulaiman Mountains rise to a height of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the north of the district[1].

Dera Ghazi Khan...Where Waderas, Sardars and Tumandars live

There were many things on my schedule when I travelled from Multan to Quetta by road instead of rail: to see the tomb of Ghazi Khan, to visit famous Fort Monro and familiarize myself with this less travelled rout to Quetta.
For those who take their chance for the first time to the city, it might sound too good to be true but Dera Ghazi Khan (D G Khan) in the past was known as Dera Phullan Da Sehra "land of flowers". The canal skirted its eastern side, fringed with luxurious gardens of mango trees, while ghats lined the bank, thronged in summer by numerous bathers.
Ghazi Khan Mirani son of a Baloch chieftain Haji Khan founded the city on his own name on the tract between Suleman Range and River Indus in 1474. Bannu-Dera Ismail Khan-Jacobabad, famous trade route of the ast ran through the city. It developed into a very beautiful and prosperous city of that time. Till 1758, eighteen princes of the Ghazi Khan's family successively ruled the city and bore the names of their ancestors, wrote Mr. Bruce in his account in 1869. Kalhoras, Durranis, Mughals, Abbasis and Sikhs also exercised control over the city before it fell to the British. Mighty River Indus had been steadily and gradually shifting its course westwards for a long time. D G Khan remained on the mercy of the River and great floods occurred in 1812, 1833, and 1842. It was completely washed away in 1856. The River now flows over the site of ancient dwelling.
The founder Ghazi Khan Mirani would not be able to recognize the "new" city that was planned by British engineers on the principle of "Grid Iron Pattern" - all roads and streets meeting at right angle - and built on present location between the period from 1900-1910 about 15 Kilometres downstream on the bank of Manika Canal near the tomb of Ghazi Khan Mirani.
Let us just assume it: D G Khan was a great town on the bank of Indus in fifteenth century. Does the town even exist? Yes, only in history books. Many things combine to show that D G Khan was a gem in the time gone by.
One of the most exciting buildings of the past is the tomb of Ghazi Khan Mirani. The tomb was built in fifteenth century on an octagonal plan, like shrine of Shah Rukn-e-Alam in Multan, with battering walls and corner turrets. Standing in front of the tomb, dismayed, I could feel the depredation and vandalism that would have few parallels. Dome and upper story of the tomb have vanished.
The main entrance to the chamber of the tomb is in the East with two smaller doors in the northern and western directions are stripped of the gates. There are 11 mud graves inside the tomb and a graveyard has spread around the tomb. The walls are pitted. The pitchi cari and calligraphy inside the tomb is also fading. The slabs of stone painted with floral and geometric designs are falling. Once magnificent and imposing tomb is now sinking in ground. No body comes to lay flower or pay respect to the dead Baloch Sardar. In the past it had also been used to keep the animals. Relics of the tomb are certainly precious. Unfortunately, currently, D G Khan, more than any other Pakistani city, lacks sensitivity to its heritage. The condition of temples, dharam shalas and gao shalas is even worse. Most of them have been converted into residential quarters, some are being used as waste receptacles and from few others even the bricks have been taken away. "To retain the heritage and history of the city, at least two temples situated east of Tounsa-D G Khan Road and whatever is left of Ghazi Khan's tomb should immediately be declared as protected monuments", says Hashim Sher Khan, a social activist who has written to many national and international agencies including UNESCO for this purpose, "but to no avail" he adds. D G Khan of Waderas, Sardars and Tumandars and patriots like Sher Muhammad who made world Pakistani as part of his name seem to be on its way to decline.
Hashim Sher Khan says, "Dera Ghazi Khan is the cultural capital of Pakistan. It is not only geographically situated on the junction point of all the four provinces but is also a place where their cultural traditions meet". Besides legendary hospitality, the most famous cultural symbols I encountered in the city during my stay are hamachas and tabaqs.
A son of the soil, Dr Ghulam Fareed once narrated a tale about his childhood to Raza Ali Abdi (BBC). The tale reads, "Big charpoys (coats) are found in every nook and corner of the city. These coats serve as open drawing rooms in the localities. There was one big coat in front of our house too. The day I left D G Khan for higher studies, I saw people sitting on that coat: talking, relaxing, and sharing. I saw the same people sitting, doing same things, once I returned from England after 15 years. Only they had gone a little old." D G Khan is famous for big charpoys locally known as Hamachas throughout the country.
Another thing for which D G Khan is famous is tabaq meaning cooking utensil with wide mouth. Nanbais prepare meat and beef dishes in these utensils. British traveller Alexander Bern who came to D G Khan in 1936-37 wrote that there were 1597 shops in the city out of which 40 were of nanbais. Once the new city was inhabited, the nanbais also migrated and set up their shops in Pathar Bazaar. Now most of them have developed and converted their shops in modern eating joints but you can still find any thing from Nalli Nihari for breakfast to Siri Pae for dinner if you like. The only difference is that Tabaqs are made of cast iron instead of clay these days. Names of Ustad Allah Yar, Ustad Qader, Ustad Allah Ditta and Ustad Muhammad Siddique who were the best Tabaqis of their times are still remembered with respect.
As per the legend, the throne of Prophet Hazrat Suleman (A S) once landed on the hill range known as Suleman Range. Next to the city on the route to Quetta is Fort Munro Peak in Suleman Range. The first thing that came to my mind after turning on a rocky road to Fort Munro from village Khar (or Kharar) was a famous couplet that was composed by poet Mustafa Zaidi who was once a Political Assistant in Fort Munro. The poet lived here soaking up the scenery and isolation while contemplating his own future and love life. He composed, “Inhe pathroon pe chal kar agar aa sako to aao, mere ghar ke raste main koi kahkashan nahin hey�. The going on the road these days is bad that gets worst in case of a light shower. Later, I also visited the library that was established by Mustafa Zaidi but now it has been converted into an office of some government department. By the way, who wants to read these days?