Shorkot · Jhang
Country of Sultan Bahu and of the Heer–Ranjha legend; Heer's family were Sials of Jhang.
Jhang, on the Chenab in the bar country of the western Punjab, is the land of the Sial tribe and of the legend of Heer, the Sial chief's daughter. The tomb of Heer and Ranjha is near the town and is visited by lovers.
Nearby Shorkot was the birthplace of Sultan Bahu, the Sufi poet whose verses end with 'hu', and his shrine is at Garh Maharaja on the Chenab.
The region is famous for its herdsmen, its jhumar dance and its sweet Jhangochi dialect.
People
Physicist from Jhang who shared the Nobel Prize in 1979 for unifying two of the forces of nature.
Poet of Heer, the best-known telling of the tragic love of Heer and Ranjha, completed in 1766.
Sufi poet of Jhang whose short verses each end with the refrain 'hu', the breath of God.
Physicist born in Jhang, who studied cosmic rays and became India's best-known explainer of science on television.
Wrote the earliest surviving Punjabi telling of Heer and Ranjha, claiming to have witnessed the story himself in Jhang.
One of three drawings of Chiniot (Jhang district), formerly Punjab and its environs
One of three drawings of Chiniot (Jhang district), formerly Punjab and its environs.