Pakistan

Derawar Fort

A landmark rising from Cholistan’s Rohi desert Derawar Fort rises above the flat desert of Cholistan in Punjab, Pakistan, where its massive walls and round bastions make a striking landmark across the Rohi landscape. The fort is often introduced through a dramatic origin story, but its early centuries are not settled history. Pakistan’s archaeology department says little is known about that period before the fort was captured in 1733. The region around it has a…...