Sahiwal guide
Places to visit in and around Sahiwal
From the 5,000-year-old ruins of Harappa to Baba Farid’s shrine and the city’s parks. Distance, map and directions for each.
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Partab Bagh
A public garden in the heart of the city, a short walk from the main bazaars.
Faridia Park
A neighbourhood park in Tariq Bin Ziad Colony with lawns and walking tracks.
Fatima Jinnah Park
A green neighbourhood park named after Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah.
Canan Park
A canal-side family park near the Yadgar monument, popular for evening walks.
Zafar Ali Stadium
Sahiwal’s cricket ground since 1955, which hosted two one-day internationals in the 1970s.
Punjab Arts Council, Sahiwal
The division’s home for theatre, music, mushairas and exhibitions.
Yadgar Monument & Yadgar Park
The city’s best-known monument at Yadgar Chowk on Railway Road, with a small park beside it.
Sahiwal railway station
Where the modern city began: the 1865 station around which Montgomery grew.
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River Ravi bridge
Where the Sahiwal–Faisalabad road crosses the Ravi, the river the whole region grew up beside.
Harappa Museum
Two galleries of finds from the excavations: seals, jewellery, pottery, toys and figurines from the Indus Valley.
Harappa archaeological site
The excavated mounds of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation, first settled around 3300 BCE.
Masjid Waris Shah, Malka Hans
The historic mosque where the poet Waris Shah lived and finished his Punjabi epic “Heer” in 1766.
Chichawatni Plantation
One of Pakistan’s largest man-made forests: 11,531 acres of shisham and eucalyptus between the railway and the canal.
Shrine of Baba Farid
The resting place of the 13th-century Sufi saint Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar, one of the most visited shrines in Pakistan.
Tomb of Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal
The resting place of the leader of the 1857 rising in the Ravi region, remembered as a hero of the struggle against British rule.
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