Mirpur Sakro ( sd, ميرپورساڪرو,) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

located 33 km away from Thatta. while it is 85 km away from

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...

. Mirpur Sakro is at an altitude of 35 meters. It is a small area having a population of around 17,500 settled in a scattered form. The native language spoken here is Sindhi. The most prominent aspects of this village is its connectivity to 88-km-long Gharo-

Keti Bunder The Keti Bandar Port ( ur, ) is a port on the Arabian Sea, in the Thatta District, Sindh, Pakistan. The port was built on the remains of the older seaport of Debal where Muhammad bin Qasim and his army arrived from Iraq. Keti Bandar is approximate ...

highway and the Sakro Qabrustan (graveyard) which is around 2 km wide located in the middle of the village. Mirpur Sakro is accessed by both cars and busses. People of the Sakro area usually work in fields and are farmers by profession or they are somehow linked to

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

to support their livelihood. Agriculture is usually carried out through

irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been devel ...

which is possible in the area as Mirpur Sakro lies quite close to

Sindh River The Sindh River, a tributary of the Yamuna River, flows through the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Course The Sindh originates on the Malwa Plateau in Vidisha district, and flows north-northeast through the districts of ...

. The landscape of the village comprises long cultivated fields. The infrastructure of Sakro is not very advanced as there are usually cob houses while the roads are ''kachi'' (unpaved). There are small health-care centers or personal clinics here. Mirpur Sakro has two government schools and a few private schools like Aga Khan School & TCF. In inhabitants of Mirpur Sakro the

Sindhi tribes Ethnic groups in Pakistan Tribes Sindhi people Sindhis ( sd, سنڌي Perso-Arabic: सिन्धी Devanagari; ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the province of Sindh in Pakistan. After th ...

and some

Baloch tribes The Baloch or Baluch ( bal, بلۏچ, Balòc) are an Iranian people who live mainly in the Balochistan region, located at the southeasternmost edge of the Iranian plateau, encompassing the countries of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. There a ...

have been settled here for three centuries.

References

Mirpur Sakro (Google Map)
{{Authority control Thatta District Villages in Sindh Talukas of Sindh