Ghazi Khan

Who is Ghazi Khan?

Ghazi Khan Dodai was the son of Malik Sohrab Dodai, a Baloch mercenary who moved to Multan in the late 15th century at the behest of the Langah dynasty of Rajputs. He was accompanied by his sons, Ghazi Khan, Fatih Khan and Ismail Khan.

The Derajat had its existence as an historical area to the Baloch immigration in the fifteenth century. Sultan Husain, the Langah Dynasty's Sultans of Multan, being unable to hold his trans-Indus possessions, called in Baloch mercenaries, and assigned these territories to Malik Sohrab Dodai in jagir. Malik's sons, Ghazi Khan, Ismail khan and Fateh Khan, founded the three Deras or `settlements' named after them.

There many folk tales associated with Ghazi Khan and his minister Gaaman Sachar, which is a legendary character in Saraiki literature.