It is believed that in 325 BCE Alexander the Great founded a city
called Alexandria on the Indus at the site of the last confluence of Punjab
rivers with the Indus. Nevertheless, some historians believe that Uch predates
the advent of Bikramjit when Jains and Buddhists ruled over the area, and that
Mithankot or Chacharan Sharif was the true settlement of Alexandria. In AD 712,
Muhammad bin Qasim conquered the city and during the Muslim period Uch was one
of the centres of Islamic studies of South Asia. There are several tombs of
famous mystics (Sufis) in Uch, notably the tombs of Syed Jalaluddin Bukhari and
his
