A Punjab Smalltown Library Continues to Get Attention

Sardarpur Jhandeer Town continues to attract people for its admirable peculiarities. Of all the achievements the town has made over the years, the Jhandeer Library stands out as a source of knowledge… It is the biggest privately-run library in terms of the number of books, which exceeds 130,000, in Urdu, English Punjabi and Seraiki on all important subjects. In 1995, the Sada-o-Cinema Iranian Broadcasting and Television Corporation telecast a documentary on the Jhandeer Library through satellite. The same year the BBC London also broadcast a documentary and appreciated the forty-year struggle of the family in preserving religious, national, historical literary and cultural heritage.