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Cultural Heritage in Sindh
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Sindh
Cultural Heritage in Sindh
Craft towns, living traditions, and indigenous culture
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Brick Enclosure of Tomb of Baqi Baig Uzbek
A 17th-century brick enclosure on Makli holding the grave of Baqi Baig Uzbek (d. 1641).
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City Museum / Tajjar Building, Larkana
A brick building of 1832 in Larkana's Jinnah Bagh, later a library and now the city museum.
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Hala Monuments (Mirs Tombs)
A large 19th-century graveyard at Hala with small tombs and a mosque, in two parts.
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Jain Temple Verawah, Nagarparkar
A stone Jain temple of the Sultanate period near Verawah, on the edge of Kajal Jheel in Tharparkar.
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Maqam Qadam Shah Graveyard
A 37-acre graveyard at Raj Malik village with carved yellow-sandstone tombs like those of Chaukhandi.
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Mohen jo Daro Museum
The site museum at Mohenjo-daro, showing finds from the Indus city beside the ruins.
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Mohenjo-daro: UNESCO World Heritage Site
UNESCO-listed Indus Valley city, one of South Asia's earliest planned urban settlements.
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Old Jamia Masjid, Makli
A ruined 14th-century Samma mosque at Makli, beside the khanqah of Sheikh Hamad Jamali.
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Sateen Jo Asthan / Seven Sisters, Rohri
A 17th-century tomb complex on the Indus at Rohri, linked in legend with seven maidens.
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Tomb of Nawab Shurfa Khan
The best-preserved and one of the most colourful tombs on Makli, built in 1639.
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Makli Necropolis: UNESCO World Heritage Site
Explore one of the world's largest historic necropolises and a remarkable record of Sindh's architectural heritage.
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Clifton Beach
Karachi's beloved urban beach, camel rides at sunset, the Karachi skyline silhouetted against a deep blue dusk sky, and the city's vibrant sea-front energy.
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Manora Beach
A historic island beach off Karachi Harbour, home to a 19th-century British lighthouse, colonial-era churches, and lively surf that draws families from across the city.
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Ranikot Fort
The “Great Wall of Sindh”, a vast historic fort whose ramparts run for some 26 km across the Kirthar foothills.
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Mazar-e-Quaid
The white-marble mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, and Karachi's most recognisable landmark.
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Mohatta Palace
A pink Rajasthani-stone palace in Karachi's Clifton, now a museum of art and Sindhi heritage.
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Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta
A 17th-century Mughal mosque famed for its tilework and remarkable acoustics, part of Thatta's UNESCO-listed heritage.
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Chaukhandi Tombs
A sandstone necropolis on the desert outskirts of Karachi, its tombs carved with intricate friezes of horsemen, jewellery, and weapons, spanning roughly the 16th to 18th centuries.
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Port of Banbhore
The excavated ruins of an ancient port city on the Indus delta near Thatta, a trading hub for over a thousand years under Scytho-Parthian, Hindu-Buddhist, and early Islamic rule.
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Nagarparkar Cultural Landscape
A desert cultural landscape at Sindh's far southeastern edge, ringed by the granite Karoonjhar Hills, with centuries-old Jain temples and a distinct Sindhi-Rajasthani heritage found nowhere else in Pakistan.
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Kot Diji Fort
A hilltop fort above Khairpur, its long crenellated ramparts commanding a mound that has been fortified since long before the current 19th-century Talpur-era walls were built.
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Naukot Fort
A square-walled 18th-century Talpur fort on the edge of the Thar Desert near Tharparkar, its brick ramparts rising abruptly out of the surrounding sand and scrub.
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Umerkot Fort
A Rajput-era hilltop fort in the Thar Desert town where the Mughal emperor Akbar is traditionally said to have been born, its round bastions and thick brick walls still dominating the town skyline.
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Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
Sindh's most visited Sufi shrine, where a golden dome rises over tiled courtyards at Sehwan Sharif and the dhamaal drums draw pilgrims from across the province every evening.
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Sadh Belo Temple
A white marble Hindu temple complex on its own island in the Indus at Sukkur, founded in the 1820s and still reached only by boat.
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Lansdowne Bridge
An 1889 cantilever bridge of red steel latticework between Sukkur and Rohri, built to carry the railway across the Indus and still framed by its brick approach turrets.
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Empress Market
Karachi's great Victorian Gothic market hall in Saddar, its limestone arcades and clock tower still anchoring one of the city's busiest quarters.
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Frere Hall
A Venetian Gothic hall of 1865 set in its own gardens in central Karachi, housing a library and Sadequain's vast unfinished ceiling mural.
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Wazir Mansion
The narrow balconied house in Kharadar where Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born in 1876, now a national monument open to visitors.
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Shrine of Sachal Sarmast
A shrine at Daraza clad head to foot in blue and turquoise tilework, holding the tomb of the 18th-century Sufi poet whose verse is still sung across Sindh.
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Faiz Mahal
The Talpur rulers' pink-and-cream palace at Khairpur, its domed pavilions and arcaded facade set in formal gardens, built in the 1790s and still held by the family.
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Mukhi House
A restored merchant mansion in old Hyderabad, its carved limestone facade and wrought-iron balconies now housing a museum of the city's pre-Partition life.
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Quaid-e-Azam House
Flagstaff House, the colonial bungalow in Karachi where Muhammad Ali Jinnah lived in his final years, kept as a museum of his personal effects.
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Puj Udasian Samadha Ashram, Shikarpur
A large, living Udasi shrine in Shikarpur, with daily prakash and a langar that never closes.
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Dharamsala Bhai Gurdas, Shikarpur
The dharamsala of the Udasi preacher Bhai Gurdas in Shikarpur, where the Gurus' verses are still sung twice a day.
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Gurdwara Nanakwara Narankarian (Chota Darbar), Kandhkot
Kandhkot's second Guru Nanak shrine, two lanes from the main darbar, with prakash and sangat twice daily.
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Gurdwara Jind Pir, Sukkur
Guru Nanak's shrine by the Sukkur–Rohri bridge, from where he went to the island of Sadhu Bela.
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Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi, Mirpur Khas
A large three-storey building in Mirpur Khas marking Guru Nanak's visit, now the Evacuee Waqf Board's offices.
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Guru Nanak Darbar, Karachi
Where Guru Nanak first stayed in Karachi, on Justice Kayani Road opposite the Arts Council.
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Shree Ratneshwar Mahadev Temple (Guru Nanak's cave), Clifton
The cave temple beside Clifton's steps where Guru Nanak is said to have meditated, now known as Shree Ratneshwar Mahadev.
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Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi, Bulani
A living Guru Nanak shrine at Bulani, with daily prakash and a running langar.
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Nanak Darbar (Nanakwara), Kandhkot
A double-storey darbar in Kandhkot's Suniar Bazaar where thousands gather at Diwali, Vaisakhi and Janmashtami.
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Thul Hairo Khan, Dadu
The Thul Hairo Khan is a Buddhist stupa located near Johi in Sindh, Pakistan, believed to have been built between the 5th and 7th centuries CE.
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Kahu-jo-Daro, Mirpur Khas
The brick Buddhist stupa of Mirpur Khas, excavated before 1910, whose terracotta reliefs are now in museums worldwide.
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Thul Mir Rukan, Daulatpur
The Thul Mir Rukan is a Buddhist stupa located near Kazi Ahmed and Daulatpur in Sindh, Pakistan.
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Sirnikot, Naushahro Feroze
Sirnikot is an important Buddhist site located along the left bank of the Indus River in Sindh, Pakistan, specifically in deh Sadhoja, near New Jatoi town in Taluka Moro, Naushahro Froze District.
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Siraj-ji-Takri, Khairpur
The Kot Diji site, located in Khairpur district, Sindh, is an archaeological site dating back to the 5th - 6th century CE, associated with the Buddhist period in the region.
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Sudheran jo Thul, Tando Muhammad Khan
The Sudheran-jo-Thul site, located in Taluka Mula Katyar, District Tando Muhammad Khan, Sindh, is an archaeological site with a stupa made from mud clay and mud bricks.
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Mohenjo-daro Buddhist Stupa
Mohen-jo-Daro, an ancient Indus Valley Civilization site, is often associated with early Buddhist history due to the discovery of a Buddhist stupa in the area.
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Khirthar Buddhist Rock Carvings
The ancient rock carvings of Sindh, located in the Khirthar Mountain Range, span across several districts including Jacobabad, Qambar Shahdadkot, Dadu, and Jamshoro.
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National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi
The National Museum of Pakistan in Karachi houses a significant collection of Buddhist artifacts, particularly from the Gandhara civilization.
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Bhambore (Banbhore), Thatta
Bhambore (or Bhanbhore) is an ancient city located in Sindh, Pakistan, with a history spanning from the 1st century BCE to the 13th century AD.
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Brahmanabad (Mansura), Sanghar
Mansura, also known as Brahmanabad, was the capital of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates in Sindh from the 8th to 10th centuries.
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Square Tower, Dhamrao (Larkana)
The Square Tower at Larkana, located in the Sindh province of Pakistan, is an important historical site that dates back to the pre-Islamic period.
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Jhukar Mound, Larkana
The archaeological site, located in Larkana District, Sindh, dates to the Proto-Historic period, approximately between 3500 BCE and 1800 BCE.
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Bhaleel Shah Thul, Dadu
Bhaleel Shah Thul, located in the Dadu district of Sindh, Pakistan, is an important historical and archaeological site.
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Veer Thari, Badin
Veer Thari is a large archaeological site near Seerani in Badin, divided into two mounds— Mound-I and Mound-II—dating from the 7th to 12th century AD.
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Peer Thul, Piryaloi
Thul Peer is a mysterious cylindrical structure in Piryaloi village, Khairpur, built with large burnt bricks and mud mortar.
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Naig Stupa, Jamshoro
The Naig Stupa, situated in the scenic Naig Valley of Jamshoro District, Sindh, is an important Buddhist archaeological site.
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Shah Abdul Latif University Museum, Khairpur
The Shah Abdul Latif University Museum in Khairpur, Sindh, preserves a wide range of artifacts from the Indus Valley, Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic periods.
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Qasim Keerio (Gujri) Site, Nawabshah
The archaeological site of Qasim Keerio / Gujrri in Nawabshah (Shaheed Benazirabad) has been identified as belonging to the Hindu-Buddhist period, dating from the 1st century BCE to the 5th century CE.
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Nali Valley Buddhist Rock Art, Dadu
The Nali Valley in Dadu District, Sindh, is confirmed as a Buddhist site due to its extensive rock art depicting stupas and viharas, carved into rock walls, caves, and shelters.
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Jamia Masjid, Dadu, Khudabad
In the midst of the ruins of the old town of Khudabad stands the great massive Kalhora period (18th Century CE) Jamia Masjid.
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Tomb of Yar Muhammad Kalhoro
The tomb at Khudabad, Dadu, of Mian Yar Muhammad Kalhoro, founder of the Kalhora dynasty that ruled Sindh from 1701 to 1783.
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Tomb of Ghulam Shah Kalhoro
The domed brick tomb, with four minarets and Hala tile work, of Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro, founder of Hyderabad.
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Tomb of Ghulam Nabi Kalhoro
There are three graves inside the Kalhora Period tomb of Ghulam Nabi Kalhoro of which one is that of Ghulam Nabi and the remaining two are that of his children.
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Tomb of Sarfaraz Khan Kalhoro
The plain tomb of Sarfaraz Khan Kalhoro, under whom the Talpurs ended eighty years of Kalhora rule in 1783.
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Boundary Wall of Pucca Fort
The walls of Hyderabad's Pucca Fort, built by Ghulam Shah Kalhoro and the seat of Sindh's Talpur rulers until 1843.
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Old office of Mirs
Five halls in Hyderabad's Pucca Fort that held the Talpur Mirs' offices and treasury, now a museum of Muslim-period finds.
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Haram of Talpur Mirs
The Talpur rulers' residence inside Hyderabad's Pucca Fort, built in 1784, with a first-floor Painted Chamber.
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Talpur Tomb's Enclosure
The tombs of Talpur Mirs have been built during the British conquest.
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Khaliq Dina Hall & Library
Karachi's 1906 public hall and library, where Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar was tried for sedition in 1921.
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Tomb of Shah Baharo
The tiled, domed tomb of Shah Baharo, a commander of the Kalhora rulers, said to have been raised by Ghulam Shah Kalhoro in 1774.
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Noor Muhammad Kalhora Tomb
The tiled tomb at Nawabshah of Mian Noor Muhammad Kalhoro, ruler of Sindh in the first half of the 18th century.
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Quba Mir Shahdad
An 18th-century graveyard of domed tombs and graves, including the stone tomb of Abdullah Shah Syed.
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OM Kanhaiya Lal Cottage
A 1934 house in Sukkur built by Om Kanhaiya Lal, a surviving piece of the town's pre-partition Hindu domestic architecture.
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Stone Tool Factory
Stone Age flint-working sites on the Rohri Hills near Sukkur, where tools were knapped from the local flint for many thousands of years.
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Mir Masum's Minar & Tomb
The most outstanding monument built at Sukkur during the Mughal period, is the high minaret of Mir Masum.
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Dabgir Masjid
A Mughal-era mosque in Thatta built by Khusrau Khan Charkas, often called the town's oldest surviving monument, with fine early blue tilework.
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Banbhore (Sasyunjo Takkar)
Bambhore is situated on the northern bank of the Gharo Creek.
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Tomb of Sultan Ibrahim
An octagonal tomb on Makli Hill for Sultan Ibrahim Khan Tarkhan, of the dynasty that ruled Sindh from 1554 to 1593.
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Tomb of Jam Nizamuddin
The carved stone tomb of Jam Nizam-ud-Din on Makli Hill, decorated in the 15th-century Gujarati manner.
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Tomb of Tughral Baig
A square tomb platform on Makli Hill, between the enclosures of Jani Beg Tarkhan and Baqi Beg Uzbek.
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Tomb of Mirza Jani & Mirza Ghazi
The octagonal Makli tomb of Mirza Jani Beg, Sindh's last independent ruler, and his son Mirza Ghazi Beg.
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Tomb of Mirza Baqi Tarkhan
A walled Tarkhan family enclosure at Makli, Thatta, for Mirza Muhammad Baqi, the Tarkhan ruler of Sindh until 1585, with carved stone graves in four chambers.
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Sonda Graveyard
Sonda was founded by the Samma ruler Jam Tamachi in the 3rd quarter of the fourteenth century and was revered by the Muslims of the area due to the noble family of saints, the Makhdums.
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Mosque of Mirs
The three-domed mosque of the Talpur Mirs inside Hyderabad's Pucca Fort, built for the ruling family and the garrison.
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Mound Amri
The Amri remains belong to the Chalcolithic period.
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Lakho Shaikh (Graveyard)
A graveyard of carved sandstone tombs of 16th- and 17th-century warriors and notables, part of lower Sindh's chain of stone cemeteries.
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Nasar-ji Masjid
Nasar-ji Masjid in Nasarpur, Sindh: a lime-plastered brick mosque known locally as the Shah Jahan Masjid, faced in bright blue tile.
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Mai Khairi Mosque
The small mosque of Mai Khairi in Nasarpur, Sindh, from the Talpur period, known for its floor of yellow, green, turquoise and brown Kashi tiles.
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Tomb of Mir Murad Khan
The tomb of Mir Murad Khan Talpur near Mirpur Khas, Sindh: a Talpur ruler's tomb whose collapsed original was rebuilt in 2001.
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Bakhar Fort
The ruined fort that covers Bakhar island in the Indus, between Sukkur and Rohri, with its walls at the water's edge.
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Lakhian Jo Daro
One of the largest cities of the Indus Civilisation, over 300 hectares on the edge of Sukkur.
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Stone Mosque with White Marble Pillars, Bhodesar
About 7 km north-west of Nagarparkar and close to the foot of rocky hills which encircles the Parkar peninsula for 40 km in circumference is a small 3 domed mosque known as Bhudesar Mosque which was built by Alauddin in CE 1449 under the order of Muhammad Shah.
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Temple, Bhodesar
A Soomra-period temple of local granite at Bhodesar, near Nagarparkar, inside a low rubble compound wall.
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Gori Temple
A marble Jain temple near Nagarparkar with 52 domes and the oldest surviving Jain wall paintings in the northern subcontinent.
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Moomal ji Mari, Mathelo
The mound at Mathelo near Ghotki, Sindh, held to be Moomal ji Mari, the palace of Moomal from the Sindhi romance of Moomal and Rano.
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Talpur Tower, Pakka Qila
A tall Talpur-period tower inside Hyderabad's Pakka Qila, once a gun post or watchtower, now used as the fort's water tank.
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Sehwan Fort
A great earth mound at Sehwan, about 370 by 730 m and 18 m high, traditionally linked with Alexander the Great.
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Lakhmir-Ji-Mari
An unexcavated conical mound about 30 m high in Sindh, perhaps occupied since remote antiquity.
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Lohum jo Daro
Lohum jo Daro near Piaro Goth, Dadu: a Harappan mound excavated by N. G. Majumdar in the 1930s, with Mature and Late Harappan (Jhukar) levels.
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Christ Church, Karachi
Christ Church in Karachi, built in 1846: a stone church with a terracotta-tiled vaulted roof and three arched entrances.
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D.J. Sindh Government Science College
D.J. Science College near Burns Road, Karachi: a two-storey stone college named after Diwan Dayaram Jethmal, with domed towers over its entrances.
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Cotton Exchange Building, Karachi
The Cotton Exchange on I.I. Chundrigar Road, Karachi: a large 20th-century building with a central dome, home of Pakistan's biggest cotton exchange.
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Kacchi Memon Masjid, Karachi
Kacchi Memon Masjid in old Karachi: a three-storey stone mosque, about 20 by 30 metres, with a tall central minaret between two smaller ones.
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Edulji Dinshaw Dispensary, Karachi
The Edulji Dinshaw Dispensary near Empress Market, Karachi: a stone hospital of 1882 with a tall central tower and wide front terraces.
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Jamia Masjid Qasaban, Karachi
Jamia Masjid Qasaban in old Karachi: a three-storey stone mosque with arched windows, built in 1213 AH (1798–99), before British rule.
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Sindh Madressatul Islam, Karachi
Sindh Madressatul Islam in Karachi, opened in 1885 by Hassan Ali Effendi: the school where Muhammad Ali Jinnah studied, built on an old caravan sarai.
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Grand Jamia Mosque, Karachi
The Grand Jamia Mosque in Bahria Town Karachi, completed in 2026, with space for 600,000 worshippers — Pakistan's largest mosque by capacity.
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Bhutto Family Mausoleum, Garhi Khuda Bakhsh
The Bhutto family mausoleum at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Larkana District: the resting place of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.
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Shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Bhit Shah
The 18th-century shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindh's greatest poet, at Bhit Shah — one of Sindh's most important, with an urs of 500,000.
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Pakistan Air Force Museum, Karachi
The PAF Museum at Faisal Base, Karachi: Pakistan's only military aviation museum, with more than 50 aircraft, radars and missiles.
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Pakistan Maritime Museum, Karachi
The Pakistan Maritime Museum in a 28-acre park in Karachi, with the submarine PNS Hangor, a minesweeper and a Breguet Atlantic aircraft.
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Bagh Ibne Qasim, Clifton
Bagh Ibne Qasim, a 130-acre seaside park at Clifton, Karachi, with the Jehangir Kothari Parade and Lady Lloyd Pier of 1919–1920.
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Port Grand, Karachi
Port Grand, Karachi's waterfront food and leisure strip on the 19th-century Native Jetty Bridge, opened in 2011 between Keamari and the port.
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Karachi Port Trust Building
The Karachi Port Trust Building, headquarters of the Port of Karachi: a landmark of the British Raj, inaugurated on 5 January 1916.
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Lakshmi Building, Karachi
The Lakshmi Building on M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi: an Art Deco tower of 1938, the city's tallest building at independence.
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Thar Desert, Tharparkar
The Pakistani side of the Thar, in Tharparkar, Sindh: dunes, desert hamlets and the district town of Mithi.
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St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Hyderabad
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad, Sindh.
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Kalka Devi Cave Temple, Aror
The Kalka Devi cave temple in the hills near Aror and Rohri: one of the holiest Hindu temples in Pakistan, visited by people of all faiths.
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Manora Point Lighthouse
Manora Point Lighthouse, Karachi: a 38-metre tower first lit in 1851, rebuilt in 1889 and still guiding ships into the port.
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Freemasons' Lodge Building, Karachi
The Freemasons' Lodge in Karachi, a yellow sandstone building of 1914 near D.J. Science College — known locally as jadoo ghar.
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Karachi Parsi Institute
Karachi Parsi Institute, the Parsi Gymkhana founded in 1893 by Parsi businessmen — a historic sports club near Karachi's old Saddar.
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