Sindh

It's like maybe a few feet wide.

But by the time you get to what is today called Sindh, which is a province in Pakistan, and Sindh is... derived from the Sanskrit word for the Indus, Sindhu.

So Sindh is the province and essentially it's like kilometers wide by the time it gets closer to the Indian Ocean.

So it becomes a huge river.

And of course, one of the things that feeds this river, which is very important, is the cyclical monsoons that happen in the Indian subcontinent.

And the two major sites that they found was a site called Harappa, which is why sometimes the Indus Valley civilization is also called the Harappan civilization.

It is closer to what is today Punjab.

And second was a place called Mohinjodaro, which is closer to what is today Sindh.

The dolphins have seen large declines in the amount of river it's able to access as Pakistan's economic growth drove river infrastructure projects like dams and irrigation canals.

With the Punjab government's creation of the Punjnad Indus River Dolphin Sanctuary, it not only safeguards the heart of the dolphins' habitat in the Punjab, but connects it with the existing protected area in neighboring Sindh province.

creating roughly 249 miles, about the length of New York State, of connected habitat under legal protection, according to World Wildlife Foundation Pakistan.

The WWF chapter will work closely with the governments in Islamabad and Punjab to develop a management plan for the sanctuary to ensure the dolphins therein can thrive, not merely survive.

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Journey of Ibn Battuta Volume 2 A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of the Nations and the Marvels of Travel Ibn Battuta D-779H Volume 2 Account of Arriving at the Valley of Sindh in the name of allah the most gracious the most merciful may the blessings of allah be upon our master mohammed his family and his companions the sheikh abu abdullah mohammed ibn abdullah ibn mohammed ibn ibrahim al lawati al tanji known as ibn batuda may allah have mercy on him said on the first day of the month of muharram at the beginning of the year seven hundred and thirty-four we arrived at the sind valley known as punjab meaning the five waters This valley is one of the greatest in the world, overflowing during the hot season.

The people of these lands cultivate their crops on its overflow, just as the people of Egypt do with the Nile.

This valley is the first territory of the great Sultan Muhammad Shah, the King of India and Sindh.

Upon reaching this river, we were greeted by the informants assigned to this duty, and they sent news of our arrival to Qutb al-Mulk, the governor of the city of Multan.

The principal emir of Sindh at that time was a Mamluk of the Sultan named Sartiz.

He was one of the notable Mamluks before whom the Sultan's armies would parade.

His name means sharp-headed, as Sar with an open S and a silent R means head, and Tiz with a T and a Z means sharp.

It should be done.

Even now, after 100 years of partition, if it doesn't happen, then where will it happen? But the question is again, where are the Sikhs standing? What is happening? In Sindh, there are many gurudwaras.

In Sindh, there is a lot of Sikh propaganda.

In Punjab, there are many Sikhs.

In KPK, there are 14,000-18,000 Sikhs living there.

It is happening . . . . . . . . . I know that when you say it, the outside world only knows that Shri Nankana Sahib taught.

Today, tell your channel that he taught in the whole of Pakistan.

He taught in KPK, in Sindh.

There are still one crore Hindus in

Sindh.

Hindus will live in their hearts today.

Okay,

okay.

So many… Even today, about 800,000 Hindus live in Sindh even after the terrible war.

This is the blessing of our Gods and our Hindu

resilience.

The earliest evidence of the use of cotton in the Old World in the form of a few fibers of mineralized cotton thread was found in a string of eight copper beads at the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh at the foot of the Bolan Pass, Balochistan, Pakistan.

Fragments of cotton textiles and spindle whorls dated to the third millennium BCE have also been found at Mohenjo-daro in Sindh, Pakistan, and other sites of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization, which is likely site for the first cultivation of Gossypium arboreum, and cotton may have been an important export from it.

Microremains of cotton fibers, some dyed, have been found at Tell Tsaf in the Jordan Valley, dated 5200 BCE.

They may be the remnants of ancient clothing, fabric containers, or cordage.

And that wasn't going to happen.

I mean, yes, there were Muslims in Bengal, there were Muslims in Punjab, in Kalat, which was later turned into Balochistan, in Sindh, in whatever became part of Pakistan.

Yet, That went hand in hand.

There was a parallel identity.

But it was effectively as a party, it always remained a very elite party.

It didn't have an outreach.

In fact, if you look at Pakistan's history, India Act 1935 and the elections which happened as a result after India Act 1935, Muslim League lost in Punjab and Sindh.

And in those areas, which then later became Pakistan.

Grants were won, aid projects implemented, success declared.

But, as Barno relates, Oxfam soon discovered an unexpected dark side to its capacity-building work in Sindh province.

It had trained six locally prominent welfare organisations in strategic planning and proposal writing, and got them started on implementation by giving them $1,000 to work with.

The VOs largely met their explicit project targets, and seemed ready to engage with international development funds on a scale much greater than they'd handled before.

In reality, aid-funded groups tend to operate rather more like corporate and or government contractors, paid service providers with comfortably salaried staff, focused on the goals of faraway clients, whose main unifying clause is, whatever helpful thing they pay us to do.

And as it turns out, that model severely demotivates volunteers.

Oxfam's capacity-built, in quotes, Sindhi organisations were certainly non-governmental, but they were no longer voluntary.

NGOs, but not VOs.