Bahawalpur

Bahawalpur (also Bhawalpur, Bhawulpore) (Urdu: بہاولپور ) is a city of Punjab Pakistan. It was the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur.Bahawalpur is the capital city of Bahawalpur District. It's papulation is 403,408( 1998). Saraiki is the local language of the area. Urdu and English are also spoken by the people. Bahawalpur is located south of the Sutlej River and it lies in the Cholistan region. It is situated 90 km from Multan, 420 km from Lahore and about 700 km from the national capital Islamabad. It was the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur. The weather is hot and dry. Summer temperatures reach high forties degrees Celsius during the day and the nights are bit pleasant.[citation needed] There is very little rainfall.
The city was founded in 1748 by Muhammad Bahawal Khan Abbasi I, whose descendants ruled the area until it joined Pakistan in 1947. The State of Bahawalpur was one of the largest states of British India, more than 450 kilometres long, and was ruled by a Muslim ruler who decided to join Pakistan at the time of independence in 1947, but the state maintained its sovereignty until 1955.