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Uch Monument Complex board and view from the road

Aerial shots of the dilapidated monuments (the World Bank gave Punjab $500 million for restoration and uplift of these and other sites)

Three shrines built over the course of 200 years along with an accompanying 1400 graves form the Uch Monument Complex

Of the shrines, the first is said to have been built for Sheikh Baha’al-Halim by his pupil, the Suharwardiya Sufi saint Jahaniyan Jahangasht (1307–1383)

The second for the latter's great-granddaughter, Bibi Jawindi, in 1494 and the third for the latter's architect

This aged well. According to a local guide, this magic well was under the spell of a local witch and her black magic that made the water flow in reverse until the then big kahuna of Uch summoned her, read some holy verses and fixed physics - enchanted, she recognized the power of his holy words over her own, was made his concubine and Uch lived happily ever after - the basic gist of the story narrated to me. It now holds stagnant water, plastic bottles and all manner of garbage inside