Drigh Lake

Drigh Lake (Urdu: ڈرگ جھیل ‎) is situated in Qambar Shahdadkot District in Sindh, Pakistan, 29 kilometres (18 mi) from Larkana city and 7 kilometres (4 mi) from Qambar town. It has a surface area of 408 acres (165 ha) and the running length of the lake from North to South is about 5.64 Miles. Formed in the floods of 1814, 1815 and 1817. [2]

Designations
Designated23 July 1976
Reference no.100[1]
Drigh Lake

Drigh Lake is a favorable area for resident and winter migratory birds like night heron, grey heron, purple heron, great white egret, little egret, mallard, gadwal, pintail, shoveller, common teal, tufted duck, wigeon, osprey, marsh harrier, white breasted kingfisher, pied kingfisher, small blue kingfisher, purple galinule, white-breasted waterhen, moorhen, cormorant, common pochard, pied harrier, crow pheasant, darter, garganey, ferruginous duck, greater spotted eagle, moorhen, marbled teal and coot.[3]

Drigh Lake was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1972 and was designated as a Ramsar site recognized by the united nation as A World Heritage site in 1976. Drigh lake is a privately owned property belonging to the "Sheikh" family Drigh lake is a joint property of the Sardar Noor Muhammad Khan Sheikh.

Dignitaries who have visited the Drigh Dhand Apart from King George V and Queen Mary Of England in 1918, Yasser Arafat, Raza Shah Pehlwi of Iran, Hafez al-Assad of Syria, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, Queen Elizabeth II of England and her husband Prince Philip, Sheikh Zaid of UAE, King Hussein of Jordan and former Pakistani leaders President of the state Field Martial General Ayub Khan, Shaheed Zulifqar Ali Bhutto Prime minister of Pakistan, President General Yahya Khan and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq when he was chief of army staff in the tenure of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's Prime Minister ship.

Presently The Lake is under direct supervision of different members of the Sheikh family.

References
  1. "Drigh Lake". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. Drigh lake, Publisher: Eco Tourism Development in Pakistan. Retrieved 2 June 2012
  3. Drigh Wildlife Sanctuary Archived May 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Publisher: Sindh wildlife Department. Retrieved 2 June 2012
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