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Kallar Kahar

The town of Kallar Kahar in the Salt Range of Pakistan. When the Mughal emperor Babar visited this area in 1519 he ordered a garden to be buit up by that lake you see at the top. I got up on this side of the town just to get a view and to locate the shrine of a 13th century mystic, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (see note). This Islamic mystic came from Turkestan in Central Asia.

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Uploaded on October 4, 2007
Taken on May 17, 2006