But this is an area off the tourist trail despite the history and beautiful mausoleums. Westerners are restricted to a handful of hotels that are allowed to accept foreigners and all are high walled with armed guards and watchtowers.
An armed police escort is required to leave the hotel, which shocked two supporters who were about to pop off into town to buy their match tickets – priced at 55-95 pence each per day for the VIP or premium enclosures. You could watch 220 days cricket in Multan for the price of a cheaper seat for a Lord’s Test next summer.
The Elite Punjab Police Commandos, with their black t-shirts emblazoned on the back with “No Fear”, glock pistols and M4s at the ready, clear the traffic for media convoys and supporter buses with sirens wailing, shouting at errant rickshaw drivers that get in the way.
The police presence will not ease, particularly after gunshots were heard a kilometre from the team hotel on Thursday morning. Police assured England it was a shoot out between local gangs, and nobody was injured, but four were arrested and it reinforced why the gun toting security presence is needed.
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