Ancient Multan 50 years back

 * Every single scene of Multan fifty decades ago is remembered as if it were yesterday.  Baba Jan used to tell us that we were shocked and disturbed to hear him say that Dawn Cinema and Karan Cinema which are no more, there was agricultural land, there were excellent crops of sugarcane and wheat. *

 Hakeem Mehboob Awan Sahib, Professor of the present Medical College, said that the Ravi and Chenab rivers used to meet on the Moj river and the view was very beautiful.

 The bridge from Chowk Shahidan to Shahidi Lal which is an old Shahidi Lal in which two ancient tombs are named after Hazrat Makhdoom Pir Jundan Shah and Shahidi Lal are the reference creations. There was a bat called Chenab Peta ie between the river or  A place with an adequate amount of dry soil in an area where some crops could be grown safely, with trees and fruit trees on all four sides.

 Father Buzurgwar used to say that the city used to be Burlab Lang. The four gates were Haram Darwaza, Pak Darwaza, Delhi Darwaza, Daulat Darwaza which were closed in the evening. There was a large Hindu population here which was left after the emergence of Pakistan.  Hindus used to build basements a lot and when they left Pakistan they left a lot of wealth in the basements which contained pure gold, silver jewelery and cash. They thought that they would definitely come back and hide themselves.  Wealth will be obtained. But that wealth fell into the hands of those to whom the houses were allotted or those to whom the Hindus were entrusted, the families went on to become great pious beggars and political pundits.

  Respected father used to say that at that time there were two cars in Multan, one belonged to Gilani family and one belonged to Qureshi family.

 At the time of Partition of India, he was an infidel but a social worker. Lala Sukhdial used to go south from Chowk Chowk on a road and take the U-turn from Old Multan Station to Shahidi Lal Bridge and its other angle back to Haram Darwaza.  This bhadi, which is a ketchup of ancient Sindhi and Multani language, was called Shaheed Lal's bhadi.  There was a plot of land near the two acres which the infidel dedicated to the cemetery.  As soon as he left, he was taken over by a political leader of the Muslims and that possession is still with this political family.

  Some fifty decades have passed, when we were second class students, there was a primary school in Chah Bohrwala, may Allah have mercy on us, the late Syed Qutb Shah Sahib was our teacher, when he used to shout at us when he was in attendance.  He used to explain the law of ethics and literature. In the morning, we had to arrive thirty minutes before school time. When it was our turn to clean, Syed Qutb Shah Sahib would take a broom from our hands and as a sadat we would have to water the plants.  Assigned, so we would at the same time do moral training, literature and sacred training like Mali under the pretext of looking after plants and trees.

  Our classes were held in a row under large neem and sheesham trees, a tot twenty times five feet long, the first to fifth passed in the same manner, but in winter there were two classes in a room.  A four-flowered or simple handkerchief, with rules and pens, tablets and medicine, kept my mother alive.

   The teacher used to crush the blackboard and we used to write on it with pen. There was a lot of emphasis on happy writing. In school, there was a big lecture on caring for plants and trees.

  At that time, Pakistan was self-sufficient in wheat, rice, cotton, gram and many other cash crops. When he grew up, he enrolled in a federal school near Kent Church. From the Chowk Aziz Hotel to the Federal School, there were greenery and dense trees.  Sher Shah Road was covered from. Pilot schools were entered in the sixth class. Government Pilot School was considered to be the best school of Multan at that time. The merit of Muslim High School and Pilot School was the greatest.  He did not open his mouth. He was not obsessed with amassing wealth. At that time, teachers were the highest architects and were looked upon with respect everywhere.

   In 1856, Mr. Hamilton was the first commissioner of Multan. He established a pilot school for teaching Persian and English. Later, the situation changed and in 1878, the school was upgraded to a higher status.  It was no less than Eid.  Earlier, the school building was near Bohr Darwaza and later the existing pilot school was shifted near Nawanshahr. We used to have a shish mahal near Abdali Road Iqbal Park, which connects Multan city with Multan Cantonment.  There is a small building of the Press Club, it was called a cool road because of the big tall trees. Rather, it would be useless to say that this road is buried with treasures of memories in all its aspects.  There was a forest of trees, now there are big buildings, banks, shopping plazas, offices of Anhar department. In this place, all the people of Multan city would gather in the heat of the day, there would be local sugar syrup, chaati lassi and round gopis.  The flow of traffic was very low and even on hot days it felt cool, so it was called a cool road.

 Iqbal Park which was once Farah Pahlavi Park. When the monarchy was taken away from Iran in 1979, the board of Farah Pahlavi Park was removed. For some time, the park remained in obscurity. Then some wise man named it Allama Iqbal Park.  It is not a name that can be changed by the changes of the government but it is sad if the people of Multan use this board for posters and advertisements.  Here, too, a forest of lush trees has been uprooted, and now there are almost no trees on this cool road.

  History The glorious past of Multan and the city of rich seasons which in the past extended to the province of Sindh and the Cholistan Desert in the south. The best mango orchards in the northern part of Multan are Nawabpur Band Bosan, Neel Kot, Sheeranwala, Hajnar Wahi and Qasim  Bella, Ghota, Khairpur, Suraj Miani, Ram Kali, Mouza Sandila, on the east side, Nadirabad, Adhiwala, Muzaffarabad, Sher Shah, Mouza Aliwala, Bakhri, Bat  Mango orchards but also up to South Punjab and Upper Punjab. Milk, meat, vegetables, small and large animals, goats, sheep, cows, buffaloes, horses, deer, and fodder of all kinds of animals and the king of fruits in fruits, especially for mango.  Besides, Shershahi berries were the best source of supply of dates, mangoes, berries, sohanjans, kachnar, spinach, cardamom etc. in Pakistan and other countries.  And every autumn, spring, cold and heat was fully enjoyed.

 Recently, various small and large colony establishments have left Multan desolate, 80,000 mango trees have been massacred, fruit and vegetable trees are being cut down continuously, Multan of the future, but the whole of Pakistan will be such a country.  Where everything from housing to food will be very expensive because when there are no fields, where will the crop come from?  Fruits and vegetables Those who dreamed of making this Pakistan green and planting a billion trees, where are their policies?

  It looks like in the next few years, people will be scrambling for drinking water, and the effects of the heat will be ready for an epidemic.

  In the lure of money, people are selling their lands in droves. Their compulsion is that agriculture is now so expensive that it is no longer possible for the farmer to cultivate the land, so they are poor peasants and small landowners  If the hen does not lay eggs now, then slaughter them and at one time fill their stomachs.  If the government of Pakistan does not take immediate notice of this and does not provide any alternative system, then the whole of Pakistan and especially the people of Multan will be seen suffering from various diseases and epidemics.