Saturday, 7 November 2026
Coins of Sindh: Dammas, Dinars and Rupees on the Indus
A coin the width of a fingernail, struck in silver, sits in the palm: on one face a crowned head in profile, a swastika before it; on ...
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Arnold Albert Musto: The Engineer Behind Sukkur Barrage and Bungalow No. 2
The Lloyd Barrage at Sukkur opened on 13 January 1932. In the photographs of that day the Viceroy, the Earl of Willingdon, dominates t...
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Emperor Akbar's Sukkur Wedding, 1572: Bhakkari Begum and the Last Arghuns
Bukkur, 2 July 1572. A Mughal officer called Itimad Khan came down the Indus and landed at the island fort of Bukkur with four elepha...
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Coal-Gas Buses in Sindh: Sukkur to Shikarpur in World War II
On the road between Sukkur and Shikarpur, a bus is said to have stopped every few miles so that its crew could shovel anthracite into...
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