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Rohtas Fort Sohail Gate Jhelum Pakistan . A Fort with 12 gates and a royal mosque.

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 Rohtas fort has total 12 gates. It is spread in quite huge area with scattered buildings thus each and every place needs to be describe and non of the place here can be ignored. I am trying to cover some of the gates in my post.  The first gate is known as  " Khwas Khani "  mean the "Gate for the specials", indicating that it was used by emperor and his special army men. This gate is the main entry to the fort but you have to keep driving through this gate until you reach to the parking lot inside the fortress. Inside the fort area lots of houses have been made by the local people, quite enough to be called as a small town.  After parking you may either walk towards " Shah Chand Wali  "gate or towards  "Sohail gate ". The choice is yours. On the left side of Sohail gate, there is "Rohtas Fort Museum" but I couldn't visit the museum because it was closed for visitors. But I was told by the guide that inside the museum has certain