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Dera Ghazi Khan

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Dera Ghazi Khan (dā`rə gä`zē khän), town (1981 pop. 102,007), central Pakistan, on the Indus canal. It is an administrative center in a wheat and millet area. Manufactures include textiles, processed foods, and rope. The town was founded in the late 15th cent. A college affiliated with Punjab Univ. is there.
Dera Ghazi Khan 

a city in Pakistan on the right bank of the Indus River in North-West Frontier Province. Population, 46,100 (1961).

Dera Ghazi Khan is a transportation point on a main highway, and it is a trading center (cereals, cotton, indigo, and clothing). The city has cotton-spinning and rice-milling enterprises, and flour and butter are produced there. A number of handicrafts have survived in the city, including the manufacture of silk garments, ivory carvings, and woolens. Dera Ghazi Khan is the site of a college of the arts. The city is subject to periodic floods.



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DERA GHAZI KHAN, November 15, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Syed Munawar Hasan has said that military operation in South Punjab not in the interest of the country, saying after operation, terrorists incidents have been increased in the country.
DERA GHAZI KHAN, November 15, 2009 (Frontier Star): Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Syed Munawar Hasan has said that military operation in South Punjab not in the interest of the country, saying after operation, terrorists incidents have been increased in the country.
In his petition, advocates Javed Iqbal Jaferee, said criminal cases was lodged against Sharif in Dera Ghazi Khan when he was the Prime Minister, but using his influence and post he managed to get the cases closed.
 
 
 
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