Vehari

Vehari is a city of 145,000 people (2017) in Southern Punjab in Pakistan.

Understand

Vehari is known to be a city of cotton, among other crops. Vehari has dozens of cotton processing factories and cottonseed oil manufacturing plants; sugarcane farming and processing is also common. Agricultural products include mangoes in the summer and guava and other citrus fruits orange in the winter.

The Vehari route goes to Lahore through the religiously renowned city of Pakpattan, where the Sufi saint Fariduddin Ganjshakar is buried. Thousands of pilgrims come annually to Pakpattan for the saint's Urs celebration which include all sorts of festivities. Selections from his work are included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh sacred scripture. He was commonly known as "Baba Farid".

Climate

The summer in Vehari is extremely hot, with temperatures of 45-50 °C on a regular basis; the temperature in winter can fall to as low as 3°C from December to February. The rainfall is very light throughout the year in Vehari. Vehari struggles for rainfall even during the usually busy monsoon season. When rainfall is light rainfall the land is generally arid and dusty.

Get in

Vehari is 96 km (60 mi) from the regional metropolis of Multan, 956 km (594 mi) from Karachi, 300 km (190 mi) from Lahore, 218 km (135 mi) from Faisalabad, and 119 km (74 mi) from Bahawalpur.

Vehari is on the southern alternate route of railway and road between Multan and Lahore, the capital of the province.

The northern route is the main route. Both run roughly in a northeasterly direction, almost parallel to each other and only 20 to 30 miles apart at any point.

See

• 1 Vehari Wildlife Park (چڑیا گھر وہاڑی), Zoo road. Ticket: Rs 10. (updated Sep 2021)

Eat

• 1 Baba Gama Falooda House (بابا گاما فالودہ ہاؤس), Near GPO Vehari (from GPO to East side, there are two roads, just enter the East-Northern road). Daily 9AM-11PM. Falooda, kheer, kulfa, dahi bhallay, khoyaa, cold milk bottles, fruit chaat. Kheer plate: Rs 70-140; khoyaa pyala: Rs 80-140; cold milk bottle: Rs 40; dahi bhallay: Rs 60; fruit chaat: Rs 70. (updated Sep 2021)