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Thatta: the glory that was
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By Omar Mukhtar Khan THATTA, one of the most famous cities of Sindh, is mentioned as a flourishing city as far back as 1351 A.D. From the fourteenth century onwards ...
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The necropolis of Sindh
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By Omar Mukhtar Khan ABOUT sixty kilometres east of Karachi, on the Karachi-Hyderabad highway is the largest cemetery of the East, Makli necropolis. Spread over an area of six square ...

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