Photos of Sindh Province, southeast Pakistan

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Sindh Province, southeast Pakistan

In the southeast of Pakistan, Sindh Province is the homeland of the Sindhi people, speaking their own Indo-Aryan language that is, besides Urdu, Sindh’s official language. Before Partition in 1947, 25% of Sindhis were Hindus, but they almost all migrated to India and, although now nearly all are Muslim, Sindh has Pakistan’s highest percentage of Hindu residents, 8.5%. The province’s name is derived from the Sanskrit “Sindhu”, meaning “river”, referring to the Indus river.

Bazaar of Karachi
 
Busy street, Karachi
 
Street corner, Karachi
 
Selling vegetables, Karachi
 
Selling vegetables, Karachi
 
Crowds in the bazaar, Karachi
 
Apartments near the harbour, Karachi
 
Zaibun Nisa Street, Karachi
 
Scooter taxi driver
 
New houses and poor homes
 
Making “Jalebi” sweets
 
Selling “Jalebi” sweets
 
Karachi harbour
 
Crew of the boat
 
Sailing boat
 
Boy with crab
 
Showing a sea eel
 
Fishing for crabs
 
Boys eating crabs
 
Sea turtle, Sandspit beach
 
Sunrise
 
Semidesert
 
Cactus plants, semidesert
 
Sindhi hunter with a gun
 
Hunting party
 
Hunting party
 
In the town of Gharo
 
Dekarolo village
 
Happy Sindhi man
 
Two Sindhi men
 
Sindhi men
 
Women fetching water
 
Cirls with cattle
 
Man with cattle
 
Farmer's house
 
Sindhi men
 

Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan with a population of almost 15 million, was, as is claimed, founded as a fortified village in 1729 by a brave woman, Mai Kolachi. It was named Kolachi-jo-Goth, and that named, corrupted and shortened to “Karachi” by Dutch sailors in 1742, stuck. Karachi was first selected as the nation’s capital upon Pakistan’s independence until that function moved to Rawalpindi in 1958; it remained Sindh Province’s provincial capital. Karachi is Pakistan’s industrial and financial centre and has the nation’s two commercial seaports. Its population is the nation’s most diverse, ethnically and religiously.