WELCOME TO DERA ISMAIL KHAN
Dera Ismail Khan was founded toward the end of the fifteenth
century by Ismail Khan, a son of the Arab adventurer Malik Sohrab Dodai, who
named the town after himself. Dera means "settlement" or
"abode". The original town was swept away by a flood in 1823, and the
existing buildings are all of relatively modern construction. The most popular
tribe or the clan is the Pir Zakori Sharif situated at Khanqah Zakori Sharif,
Dinpur Road. Its Sajjada Nashin is the Pir Habib Ullah Jan Zakori, but after
his death, it is devolved to his sons Pir Hidayat Ullah Jan Zakori and Pir
Habib-ur-Rehman Zakori.[1] The present town stands four miles (6 km) back from
the permanent channel of the river.However, later research does not support
this theory. Firstly, Malik Sohrab was not an Arab adventurer but a Hote Baluch
who was appointed Soobadar of this area by the Langha rulers of Multan.
Similarly the city could not have been founded towards the end of fifteenth
century; because when Babar came here in 1506 he passed through this plain
which is now called Dama'an and referred to it as Dasht and went up to Tank but
did not mention any city around here in his Tuzk (Memoirs, originally published
in Turkish). Later we are told that when in 1540 Sher Shah came to Khushab,
Ismail Khan of Dera Ismail Khan went to Khushab to meet him there. So the city
must have been founded in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. After
the flood destruction of 1823, the present city was founded by Nawab Sher
Muhammad Khan Sadozai in 1825, but he preferred to retain the old name for it.READ MORE
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