Karor Lal Esan Punjabi,Urdu, or Kot Karor, is a city of Layyah District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city is the capital of Karor Lal Esan Tehsil and administrative subdivision of the district. It is located at 31°13'0N 70°57'0E with an altitude of 148 metres (488 feet). Its old name is Depalpur.
The city is partially named after a saint, Hazrat Lal Esan, Who recited 10 million times the Sura Yaseen (A chapter from The Holy Quran) while standing on foot in the Indus River. In Urdu 10 million is equal to 1 Karor that's why the city is called Karor Lal Esan. Hazrat Lal Esan was the grandfather of the famous Bahudin Zakarya Multani.
This city is located on the west coast of the famous Indus River. There is a popular festival, called Mela Chodhwein, held in Karor every year in September. This festival is celebrated in the memory of Hazrat Lal Esan. The fair showcases a number of events such as horse racing, tent pegging, camel fighting, bullfighting and racing, wrestling, kabaddi, dodda, and many others. Religious status; SSP and Jaish are main religious groups of Karor lal easan.
There are few other tombs of saints in the city, e.g. Darbar Hazrat Rajan Shah Darbar Araf Shah, Darbar Shah Habib sb. and Darbar Shah Ashraf Sb. Khawaja Ghulam Hassan Sewag Shareef's tomb is Near Karor Lal Esan,at Hassan abad, Pir Sewag shareef.
Khawaja Ghulam Hassan Sewag Shareef was born in a village called Dagar Sewag, District Layyah in the middle of 19th Century. He was raised as an orphan and studied with Moulana Nur Khan, who was a deputy of Khawaja Muhammad Usman Damani (d.1314 AH). By the advice of his teacher, he first took allegiance in the Naqshbandi Path with Khawaja Damani. After the demise of his shaykh, he continued his spiritual journey with his shaykh’s son Khawaja Muhammad Siraj-ud-Din, who awarded him deputyship in the Sufi Path.
He established a sufi khānqāh in Hasanabad Thal, near Karor Lal Esan, and was famous for converting large numbers of Hindus in Islam who would convert only by looking at his blessed face. He died on 13 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1358 AH (1939). His annual Urs is celebrated at his shrine in the form of a purely religious and spiritual congregation.