Kot Diji Fort (Fort Ahmadabad)

Kot Diji Fort, formally known as Fort Ahmadabad, is an 18th-century citadel constructed by the Talpur dynasty during the reign of Mir Sohrab Khan (built between 1785 and 1795). It stands at the edge of the Thar Desert near the town of Kot Diji, approximately 25 miles (≈40 km) east of the Indus River. The site is recognized in encyclopedic and structured-data resources (Wikipedia and Wikidata) and appears in modern academic or institutional catalogs concerning heritage performance and flood hazards. The supplied sources provide historical and architectural information about the fort and indicate contemporary scholarly interest (for example, a repository catalog entry listing a paper titled about the fort's performance against flood hazards). These materials do not document any paranormal phenomena, soldier apparitions, curses, named spirits, or oral traditions of haunting. Therefore, while local folklore or later unreferenced accounts might exist outside the provided materials, such claims are not supported by the sources supplied for this entry. Because the references used here are limited to an encyclopedia entry, a Wikidata record, and a repository metadata harvest, details such as current public access, restoration status, or site management are not specified in these sources and remain unknown in this record.