Drigh Lake

Drigh Lake () is situated in Qambar Shahdadkot District in Sindh, Pakistan,   from Larkana city and  from Qambar town. It has a surface area of  and the running length of the lake from North to South is about 5.64 Miles. Formed in the floods of 1814, 1815 and 1817.   
  
Drigh Lake is a favorable area for resident and winter migratory birds like night heron, grey heron, purple heron, great white egret, little egret, mallard, gadwal, pintail, shoveller, common teal, tufted duck, wigeon, osprey, marsh harrier, white breasted kingfisher, pied kingfisher, small blue kingfisher, purple galinule, white-breasted waterhen, moorhen, cormorant, common pochard, pied harrier, crow pheasant, darter, garganey, ferruginous duck, greater spotted eagle, moorhen, marbled teal and coot.

Drigh Lake was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1972 and was designated as a Ramsar site recognized by the united nation as A World Heritage site in 1976.
Drigh lake is a privately owned property belonging to the  "Shaikh" family DRIGH lake is a joint property of the Sardar noor Muhammad khan Shaikh. 

Dignitaries who have visited the Drigh Dhand Apart from King George the 5th and Queen Mary Of England in 1918, Yasir Arafat, Raza Shah Pehlwi of Iran, Hafiz al-Asad of Syria, Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, Queen Elizabeth II of England and her husband Prince Philip, Shaikh Zahid of UAE, King Hussein of Jordan and former Pakistani leaders President of the state  Field Martial General Ayub Khan, Shaheed Zulifqar Ali Bhutto Prime minister of Pakistan, President General Yahya Khan, and General Ziaul Haq when he was chief of army staff in the tenure of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's  Prime Minister ship. 

Presently The Lake is under direct supervision of different members of the shaikh family.

References

Category:Ramsar sites in Pakistan
Category:Lakes of Sindh
Category:Marine parks of Pakistan
Category:Qambar Shahdadkot District
Category:Protected areas of Sindh