Dhok Gohar Shah is a village in

Rawalpindi District Rawalpindi District (Punjabi language, Punjabi and ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district located in the northernmost part of the Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the district form part of the Islamabad Rawalpindi metropo ...

in the

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province of

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. The

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of Syed Ali Gohar Shah, also known Baba Gohar Ali Shah, is also in Dhok Gohar Shah. Originally he was from

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, however, later he migrated to a suburb of Rawalpindi near

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, the place is dedicated to his name and called Dhok Gohar Shah means village of Gohar Shah.

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Populated places in Rawalpindi District Villages in Gujar Khan Tehsil {{Rawalpindi-geo-stub