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4 unusual facts about Sindh


Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Program

The Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Program (BBSYDP) is Government of Sindh training program for young unemployed people.

Kach Gandava

It is driven, like a wedge, into the frontier mountain system and extends for 150 miles from Jacobabad to Sibi, with nearly as great a breadth at its base on the Sindh frontier.

Pakistan Music Stars

Latif Ali (Hyderabad) - Latif (due to some personal problems) was later replaced by Zain Hassan from Lahore.

Pakistani Australian

Many of them had come from cities like Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Hyderabad and Peshawar, and were familiar with Western culture and ways of living.


Abdul Qadir Patel

In 1991 he obtained his B.A. degree from Federal Urdu University where he served as president of Sindh People's Youth, a student wing of Pakistan Peoples Party.

Adal Soomro

He works in the Sindhi literature department of Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, Sindh.

Ali Rizvi

Syed Ali Qutab Shah Rizvi, member of the Pakistani Sindh Provincial Assembly

Amri

Amri culture, associated with archaeological sites in Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan

Askhia Progressive Public High School, Mirpur Khas

Askhia Progressive Public High School Mipurkhas is a public high school located in Mirpur Khas, Sindh, Pakistan.

Battle of Halani

The Battle of Halani was fought in 1782 between the Afsharid tribe Talpurs and the Sindhi tribe Kalhora for the control of the Sindh region, in modern-day Pakistan.

Bhatia caste

Denzil Ibbetson, an ethnographer of the British Raj, noted that many were found in Sindh and Gujarat in the 19th century CE but that there were grounds to believe that they had migrated from Bhatner, Jaisalmer and the area then known as Rajputana (approximating to modern-day Rajasthan).

Biblical place names in Khorasan

Early Islamic usage regarded the area east of western Persia (Jibal, also known as Persian Iraq) as part of the poorly-defined region of Khurasan, extending to the Indus River and Sindh.

Chandio

According to social development societies of Sindh, there were over 10,000 Baloch residing in Islamabad, as of 2008: Chandio tribe (700), Talpur (300), Channer (450-500), Memon, Soomro, Lashari, Hattar, Qazi, Khand, Junejo, Narejo and other tribes of Sindh (8000-9000) residing in Islamabad.

Dabra, Rajasthan

In the Jat belt extending from Mallani paragana (present Barmer District bordering Sindh province), Jodhpur paragana (Jodhpur district) Merta, Nagaur, Didwana and Parabatsar paraganas (present Nagaur district) the Jats formed nearly 30% of the total population, not an insignificant proportion by any standard.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Fighter kite

Kite fighting is common in all over Pakistan, but mainly concentrated in cities of Punjab and Sindh region including Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Karachi, Islamabad etc.

G. M. Felix

On March 27, 2004 he met with Sindh Governor Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan as part of a delegation of the Christian community which discussed development works in their areas and their needs with regard to educational institutions, employment opportunities and facilities in jails for Christian prisoners.

Ganjo

Ganjo Takkar, a limestone hill range in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

Ghulam Murtaza

Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed, known as G. M. Syed (1904–1995), Pakistani political leader who pioneered the Jeay Sindh movement

Gregory Possehl

In his book Ancient Cities of the Indus he writes that "the first point to be emphasized is that the problem seems not to be best stated as the "end" of a civilization, at least in the sense of a tradition, since there are abundant signs of cultural continuity in Sindh, Gujarat, the Punjab and adjacent areas of the North India."

Guna, India

Towns Shivpuri and Kota are located in north and the cities Vidisha, Bhopal, and Rajgarh lie to the South.the eastern boundary of district define by Sindh river.

Henry Edward Napier

His brothers included General Sir Charles James Napier, Commander-in-Chief, India and conqueror of Sindh; Lieutenant-General Sir George Thomas Napier, Governor and Commander of the Cape of Good Hope; and General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, and author of the History of the Peninsular War.

Hinduism in Sindh

Sindh has historically been, and still is, home to the largest community of Hindus in Pakistan.

Holiest sites in Sufi Islam

In some parts of the Islamic world, such as in Pakistan, these festivals are multi-day events and even draw members of the Hindu minority who often revere the Muslim saint, such as in the case of the famous Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Sindh, Pakistan - an important example of religious syncretism that blurs the distinction between members of different religions.

Institute of Rural Management, Pakistan

This include providing institutional building services to organizations including Khushali Bank, World Bank and Asian Development Bank, International Labor Organization, Punjab Rural Support Programme, Ghazi Barotha Taraqiati Idara, Sindh Rural Support Organization, DTCE – Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment, Human Resource Development Network, United Nations Development Programme, South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme and National Bank of Pakistan.

Khafif

He was sent from "Samarra" by the Abbasid Caliphate and thus became known as Khafif Soomera in Sindh.

Khap

These Khaps are found to be spread all the way from Northwest India down to Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, Rajasthan, Sindh, Multan, Punjab, Haryana, and modern Uttar Pradesh.

Khushk

After civil war between Rind and Lashar tribes, many groups and families of both tribes migrated to various parts of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab which lateron became clans and sub-clans of respective tribes.

Kirthar Mountains

The maximum elevation in the Sindh Segment of Kirthar Mountains was reported in April 2009 as 7,056 feet above sea-level, which would make it the highest peak of Sindh, situated a few miles north-west of the upcoming Gorakh Hill Station which is at 5,688 feet.

Mastoi

The majority of the Mastois settled in Sindh are in the districts of Dadu, Larkana, Sukkhur and Karachi.

Muhammad Usman Diplai

In 1923, it so happened that he came across an issue of the Urdu weekly Munadi published from Delhi by Khwaja Hassan Nizamani, which carried an article about the conquest of Sindh by the young warrior Muhammad Bin Qasim.

Mukhdoom Muhammad Hayat Bhatti

Makhdoom Ishaq Bhatti Abbasi Kalhora Dynasty education Quran and Sunnah in the school of Islam Hyderabad Old Hala Sindh.

Najeeb Haroon

He was also the president of the Karachi Division from 1996 to 2000, vice-president of PTI Sindh from 2000 to 2001 and general secretary of PTI Sindh from 2001 to 2003 of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Napier Road

Napier Road is situated in the city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan and is named after Charles Napier, the first British Governor of the Sindh province.

Peoples' Aman Committee

The organization initially only served Lyari, but soon offices were set up in other Baloch populated neighbourhoods of Karachi, such as Dalmiya (Shantinagar), Malir, Gadap, Old Golimar, Mawach Goth, and even in some nearby town and villages in Sindh and Balochistan.

Rana Bhagwandas

Rana Bhagwandas was born on December 20, 1942 into a Hindu family in Naseerabad, Larkana District (now Qamber Shahdadkot District) in Sindh.

Sahita

The majority of Sahita live in central Sindh, specifically in the districts of Khairpur, Naushahro Feroze, Nawabshah, Hala and Hyderabad.

Samma

Samma Dynasty, ruled in Sindh, parts of Balochistan and Punjab from 1335–1520 AD

Samma tribe, a Rajput clan settled in the provinces of Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab of Pakistan and also in Rajasthan, India

Scinde Medal

The Scinde Medal was authorised on 22 September 1843 and issued to those soldiers of the Honourable East India Company and of the 22nd Regiment of Foot who participated in Major General Sir Charles Napier's campaign against the Amirs of Sindh, Mir Rustam Khan Talpur, Mir Nasir Khan Talpur and Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur.

Shaheed Benazir Abad District

After the 1853 invasion by General Charles Napier, Sindh was divided into provinces and assigned to Zamindars (or landlords) to collect taxes for the British.

Shahpur Jehanian

Shahpur Jehanian is a town in Sindh, Pakistan between Daulatpur and Moro on the main N-5 National Highway.

Shazia Khushk

Shazia as Sindhi folk singer; having been an avid fan of folk-songs of Sindh about Marvi and poetry of renowned poet of Sindh Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

Shikharpur

Shikarpur, Pakistan, a town in the Shikarpur District of the Pakistani province of Sindh

Shri Keshavraiji Temple, Bet Dwarka

Pushkarna Brahmin along with Bhatia devotees, mostly from Sindh, Rajasthan, Kutch, Gujarat and Punjab, visited Bet Dwarka to worship Lord Keshavraiji most often.

Sindh Museum

Items from various ruling periods of Sindh, including Samma, Soomra, Kalhora and Talpur periods can be found at the museum.

Sohni Mahiwal

Legends has it that the bodies of Sohni and Mahiwal were recovered from the River Indus near Shahdadpur, Sindh, some 75 km far from Hyderabad, Pakistan.

Søren Kristian Toubro

As an employee of F. L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen, he came to India in 1934 to erect and commission the equipment supplied to the Madukkarai Cement Works (near Coimbatore) and the Rohri Cement Factory (near the Sukkur Barrage in Sindh).

St. Mary’s High School, Sukkur

In this year the Sindh Mission was separated from Bombay Archdiocese.

St. Paul's Church, Manora

St. Paul's was erected as a memorial to Sir Charles James Napier, the British general who led forces to conquer the Sindh in 1843.

Thar

Thar Desert, a barren wasteland in Rajasthan, India and Sindh, Pakistan

V. Eshwaraiah

During his visit to Institute of Sindhology in Sindh of Pakistan, he called upon India and Pakistan to focus on universal peace, harmony and development of their people by curtailing defence budget on border tensions.


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