Mahra

Mahra lies in the country west of the Indus, south of Dera Ismail Khan. Nearby, the mound of Mahra Dheri has yielded pottery and terracotta objects from a Bronze Age settlement, evidence of a much older history in the plain. The wider Derajat region took shape in the fifteenth century, when the Langah Sultan of Multan invited Baloch people to settle there. Later the Indus and the routes towards the Gomal Pass connected its communities with markets beyond the valley.