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Mirokhan
Mirokhan is one of the oldest tehsils situated in Qambar Shahdadkot District (Previously Larkana District) of Sindh province of Pakistan. It was established in 1915 and was considered to be the largest tehsil by area before the division of the Larkana district into Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts, its own division into Mirokhan and Sijawal tehsils. Situated about 55 km away from the Indus valley's most famous site Mohenjo-daro, 27 km from Larkana. Mirokhan is famous for shrine of a great Islamic scholar and saint, Mian Hamidullah Huzuri (Huzuri Badshah). The town is connected by road directly to Qambar, Sijawal Junejo, Shahdadkot, Ratodero and Larkana. Mirokhan has various types of academic institutes from primary level to diploma-awarding colleges for both boys and girls. Many people from different caste backgrounds live in the city including, Tunio, Bhatti, Gopang (Baloch), Magsi (Baloch), Chandio (Baloch), Laghari (Baloch) and Abro (Sindhi) casts. There ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sijawal Junejo
Sijawal Junejo ( sd, سجاول جونیجو) is a taluka of Qambar Shahdadkot District, division Larkana, Province of Sindh, Pakistan. It was established in 2004 when district Qambar Shahdadkot District was newly established. Sijawal Old Name was Sujawal Taluka. At the time of British Government Sujawal was taluka from approximately 1876 to 1915 A.D. Later on Sujawal name was changed to Sijawal Junejo in 2000 A.D. Name was suggested by U.C Nazim of that time. Sijawal Junejo is situated on main Motorway Ratodero- Gwadar Road. It is situated in the center of Ratodero Taluka and shahdadkot. Sijawal Junejo City is 19 km away from Shahdadkot City and 18 km away from Ratodero City. The city is connected by road directly Shahdadkot Ratodero, Mirokhan, Qamber and Larkana District Cities. Many people from different caste backgrounds live in the city including Magsi, Bhatti, Jamali, Gadhi, Syed, Brohi, Lohar, Isran, Junejo and Memon. There are many villages in its surround ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larkana District
Larkana District (Sindhi language, Sindhi: ضلعو لاڙڪاڻو; ur, ) is a district of Sindh province of Pakistan. Its main city is Larkana on the banks of the Indus River. It is home district the of influential Bhutto family. The Larkana Bulls cricket team established in 2013. Other towns of the district include Ratodero, Dokri, Bakrani and Naodero. In 2005, the Government of Pakistan under Pervez Musharraf bifurcated the district, forming a new district called Qamber Shahdadkot District, Qamber and Shahdadkot, with two towns of Qambar Khan and Shahdadkot. History The District came into existence on August 1, 1901, when it was formed out of the Karachi and the Sukkur District, Shikarpur districts. The Sehwan, Johi, Dadu, Johi and Dadu District, Dadu talukas were taken from the Krachi District, Karachi district, and the Mehar Tehsil, Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Kakar, Warah, Larkana, Dokri Tehsil, Labdarya, Qambar Shahdadkot District, Kambar and Ratodero talukas were tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qambar Shahdadkot District
Qambar Shahdadkot District ( sd, ضلعو قمبر شهداد ڪوٽ, ur, ) is a district of Sindh, Pakistan, originally named after Shahdad Khan Khuhawar the official founder. District Qambar Shahdadkot, with headquarters at Qambar, was established on 13 December 2004. Taluka Qambar and Shahdadkot Tehsil were part of Larkana district since long before they were combined and made one district for administrative purposes. At first it was named only Qambar but because of dissent from the people of Shahdadkot Tehsil, Shahdadkot city, the name Shahdadkot was added. Today, however, the locals of Shahdadkot demand a separate district comprising Shahdadkot Tehsil, Shahdadkot, Qubo Saeed Khan and Sijawal Junejo as they face difficulties in governmental work because they must go a long distance to Qambar to get the work done because most government offices are there. The district was created in the tenure of Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim, who is accused of creating this district for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier terms, such as '' pargana'' (''pergunnah'') and ''thana''. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace the system of tehsils. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system. In West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. As an entity of local government, the tehsil office (panchayat samiti) exercises certain fiscal and administrative power over the villages and municipalities within its jurisdiction. It is the ultimate execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qambar
Qambar, is the headquarter of Qambar Shahdadkot District in Sindh. It has a district court and district level government offices. The town is also famous due to a large following of the living saint Saien Hussain Shah. History Qamber town was part of Larkana District until December 2004 when the Sindh government announced the creation of a new district and made it the capital of the new Qambar-Shahdad Kot District. See also * * |
Larkana
Larkana ( ur, , translit=lāṛkāna; sd, لاڙڪاڻو, translit=lāṛkāṇo) is a city located in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the 15th largest city of Pakistan by population. It is home to the Indus Valley civilization site Mohenjo-daro. The historic Indus River flows in east and south of the city. The city is located within Larkana District. Formerly known as " Chandka", Larkana is located on the south bank of the Ghar canal, about south of the town Shikarpur, and northeast of Mehar. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, its population is 490,508. Therefore, it is the fourth most populated city of Sindh province after Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkur. Moreover, Larkana city has been placed as fifteenth largest of Pakistan during Census 2017. Geography Larkana is situated at Latitude 24 56' 00' and Longitude 67 11' 00'. It is situated in northwest part of Sindh and it has own division. It is also included in Upper Sindh. Climate Larkana has a hot des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohen-jo-daro
Mohenjo-daro (; sd, موئن جو دڙو'', ''meaning 'Mound of the Dead Men';Mohenjo-Daro (archaeological site, Pakistan) on Encyclopedia Britannica website Retrieved 25 November 2019 ur, ) is an archaeological site in the province of , . Built around 2500 BCE, it was the largest settlement of the ancient , and one of the world's earliest major |
Moenjodaro Airport
Moenjo Daro Airport is a domestic airport located at Mohenjo-daro, Sindh under the administration of Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority. It is 28 km away from the city of Larkana. Formerly, it was the third busiest airport in Sindh. History It was founded in 1967 during the tenure of Ayub Khan. The airport was upgraded in 1973. In 1996, its runway and terminal buildings were extended. See also * List of airports in Pakistan This article lists the civil airports, some joint with military airbases and small airports in Pakistan. There are an estimated 151 airfields in Pakistan. Major international airports are situated in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Other internati ... References External links Airports in Sindh Larkana District 1967 establishments in Pakistan Airports established in 1967 {{Pakistan-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brahui Language
Brahui (; brh, , links=no; also known as Brahvi or Brohi) is a Dravidian language spoken by some of the Brahui people. The language is spoken primarily in the central part of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan, with smaller communities of speakers scattered in parts of Irani Baluchestan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan (around Merv) and by expatriate Brahui communities in Iraq, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. Br. kah-. Stress Stress in Brahui follows a quantity-based pattern, occurring either on the first long vowel or diphthong, or on the first syllable if all vowels are short. Orthography Perso-Arabic script Brahui is the only Dravidian language which is not known to have been written in a Brahmi-based script; instead, it has been written in the Arabic script since the second half of the 20th century. In Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, an Urdu based Nastaʿlīq script is used in writing: Latin script More recently, a Roman-based orthography named Brolikva (an abbreviati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi Language
Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 million native speakers as per the 2017 census, and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, as per the 2011 census. The language is spoken among a significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written using the Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Perso-Arabic script; in India, it is written using the Gurmukhi alphabet, based on the Indic scripts. Punjabi is unusual among the Indo-Aryan languages and the broader Indo-European language family in its usage of lexical tone. History Etymology The word ''Punjabi'' (sometimes spelled ''Panjabi'') has been derived from the word ''Panj-āb'', Persian for 'Five Waters', referring to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
