SINDH
Sindh is the south eastern province of Pakistan. The province is associated
with the river Indus and the Indus civilization as the river Indus ends here and
the largest city of Indus civilization is also here.
Culture & History of Sindh
Historically Sindh is home to the Sindhis. Different cultural and ethnic
groups also reside in Sindh including Urdu-speaking Muslim Indians who migrated
to Pakistan from India upon independence as well as the people migrated from
other provinces after independence. The Sindh is linked with Balochistan in the
west and north, Punjab to the north, Gujarat and Rajasthan of India in the
southeast and east, and the
Arabian Sea in the south. The main language of Sindh
is Sindhi while all other languages of Pakistan are spoken here. Historically
the Assyrians (as early as the seventh century BC) knew the region as Sinda. The
Persians as Abisind, the Greeks as Sinthus, the Romans as Sindus, the Chinese as
Sintow, in Sanskrit, the province was dubbed Sindhu meaning "Ocean" while the
Arabs dubbed it Al-Sindh.
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