Mailsi

Mailsi is a city in southern Punjab, Pakistan, and the headquarters of Jallah Jeem-Mailsi Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of Vehari District. At the 2023 census it had a population of 125,431. It lies in the Indus Valley near Multan on a flat alluvial plain at an altitude of about 126 metres, and has an arid climate with hot summers and mild winters. The tehsil is one of the largest in Vehari District, and the cities of Lodhran and Vehari were created out of it in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mailsi is well known for its cotton crop, and its exports include cotton, wheat, sugarcane, rice and henna, irrigated by canals such as the Mailsi Link, Faddah and Dhamakki. It is known for the Jhandhir Library and for the Mailsi Siphon on the Sutlej river, built in 1964 to control the flow between the Sutlej and the Sidhnai Link Canal.