Lal Pir
village in Muzaffargarh Dt, Pakistan
Lal Pir or Lalpir (also Laal Pir) is a village near Mehmood Kot, Muzaffargarh District, Punjab, Pakistan. It was destroyed in floods in August 2010 and rebuilt by the efforts of the Midland International Aid Trust, a charity based in Walsall in the Midlands of England. For this reason the tented village erected as emergency accommodation pending the full rebuild was known as "Midland" or "Midlands Village", a name also transferred to the village itself.
Nearby, also in Mehmood Kot, is the site of the Lalpir Power Plant complex.Lal Pir has a railway station on the Sher Shah–Kot Addu Branch Line.
“Lal Pir” enters the record as village in Muzaffargarh Dt, Pakistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what village, Muzaffargarh and Pakistan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Lal Pir” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, village, Muzaffargarh and Pakistan provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137638358. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lal Pir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.