Dera Ghazi Khan

Dera Ghazi Khan is a town in central Pakistan, in the Punjab province. It is in the floodplain of the Indus River. The town was founded at the close of the 15th century and named after Ghazi Khan, son of Haji Khan, a Baluch chieftain, who after holding the country for the Langah sultans of Multan had made himself independent. Together with the two other deras (settlements), Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Fateh Khan, it gave its name to the territorial area locally and historically known as Derajat, which after many vicissitudes came into the possession of the British after the Sikh War, in 1849, and was divided into the two districts of Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail Khan. The district of Rajanpur was carved out of Dera Ghazi khan district.

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