Daraza () is a word taken from the

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"Dar-e-raaz" meaning the door to divine secrets. It was once a state consisting of 17000 acres, and is now a village that is also called Daraza Sharif. This village is located near the present-day Ranipur which is a city in the

Khairpur District Khairpur District (, ) is a district in the Pakistani province of Sindh in Sukkur Division. At the 2017 census, it was the fifth most populated district in the province after four districts of Karachi city, with 2.4 million inhabitants. The ...

Sindh Sindh ( ; ; , ; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind (caliphal province), Sind or Scinde) is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, southeastern region of the country, Sindh is t ...

province,

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. The village is famous for being the location of the burial place and tomb of

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poet Faquir Abdol Wahab Farouqi who was also known as

Sachal Sarmast Sachal Sarmast or Sacho Sarmast (; – 1827), was an 18th and 19th century Sindhi Sufi poet, mystic and philosopher from Daraza (present-day Sindh, Pakistan), regarded as an important figure in the Sindhi-language literature. He is revered ...

. It is located at 27°18'22N 68°30'36E with an altitude of 46 metres (154 feet).Location of Draza – Falling Rain Genomics
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Populated places in Khairpur District {{Sindh-geo-stub