Cholistan

Farther east the Rohi, or Cholistan, is a barren desert tract, bounded on the north and west by the Hakra depression with mound ruins of old settlements along its high banks; it is still inhabited by nomads. The principal inhabitants of the region surrounding Bahawalpur are Jat and Baloch peoples.…

…is variously known as the Cholistan or Rohi Desert in Bahawalpur and the Pat or Thar Desert in Sindh. The surface of the desert is a wild maze of sand dunes and sand ridges. Most of the Sindh Sagar Doab, the most western of the doabs of Punjab, was an…