Sohni and Alice Albinia's Discrepancy

"I sit in a Sindhi village with the stars in the indigo sky the only light, the warm breeze blowing across my skin, the rustle of maize in the fields and the lowing of buffalo the only other sounds, listening to a farmer singing 'Sur Sohni' ...it is easy to mistake the century and be cast back to the dark night when Sohni drowned in the tempestuous, treacherous Indus."

So writes Alice Albinia in 'Empires of the Indus'. And it's historically incorrect. The tale of Sohni-Mahiwal took place sometime during the late Mughal period, in a town on the banks of the Chenab (and not the Indus!). The town is identified as present day Gujrat.

Secondly, Ms. Albinia keeps associating this tale with Shah Abdul Latif.Hasn't Fazal Shah always been considered a 'Heer specialist' here? Just the way Waris Shah made Heer a household name?

Here's a rough translation of Fazal Shah's magnum opus coming to an end:

It’s dark and the river is in flood
There is water all around me
How am I going to meet Mahiwal?

If I keep going, I will surely drown
And if I turn back
I would be going back on my promise
And letting Mahiwal down

I beg you (O pitcher!), with folded hands,
Help me meet my Mahiwal
You always did it, please do it tonight, too

(The pitcher replies):

I wish I, too, were baked in the fire of love, like you are
But I am not. I apologize; I cannot help