Taunsa Sharif is a small town in the Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab, set in the arid plains east of the Sulaiman Mountains. It draws visitors as a site of Sufi pilgrimage — the town is named after the revered saint Hazrat Syed Ahmad Sultan, and his shrine is the focal point of the old town. The Taunsa Barrage on the Indus River, a few kilometres south of town, is an engineering landmark, a Ramsar-designated wetland, and one of the best places in Pakistan to spot the rare Indus river dolphin.
Taunsa Sharif
Punjab pilgrimage town where a Sufi shrine stands near the Indus-side Taunsa Barrage wetland
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Taunsa Sharif is primarily a pilgrimage town, and the shrine of Hazrat Syed Ahmad Sultan is the reason most visitors come. The Taunsa Barrage on the Indus, a few kilometres south, is the other major draw — both for its engineering importance and for the rare Indus dolphins that live beneath it.
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Taunsa BarrageThe Taunsa Barrage is one of the major barrages on the Indus River, built in 1958 to divert irrigation water across the arid plains …Sight
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Shrine of Hazrat Syed Ahmad SultanThe shrine of Hazrat Syed Ahmad Sultan, the revered Sufi saint whose memory gives the town its name and its identity, is the spiritual …Sight