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This winter has brought a real change in my life, I have started to travel a lot and also started to explore the glorious past of my motherland Sindh, it won't be an exaggeration if I tell you every inch of Sindh has a unique link with the history, every part of Sindh has at least one historic monument.  Last Sunday, we headed towards Uderolal, the legendary Sindhi saint, who is revered and respected by both Hindus and Muslims, both communities have a legend for this great saint. On this occasion I was accompanied by my three great friends Akhtar Hafeez, a brilliant Sindhi short-story writer and blogger, Akbar Soomro, one of the best Sindhi novelists of our age and Shah Hassan Rashidi, a social activist. Our host was Mr. Attaullah Shah, Deputy Commissioner of Mirpur Khas and a native of Uderolal, while Mr. Abdullah Shaikh, the caretaker of the shrine was also with us. Uderolal, a small town near Khyber falls in District Matiari on Tando Adam Road, approximately an ho...

It was a sunny Saturday as we reached Thatta, the capital of Sindh in the days of Samma dynasty, one of the two native ruling clans of Sindh, who were overthrown by barbaric Arghuns, as these merciless Arghuns entered Thatta, a port city of immense value in those days, they started to burn it. Thatta was established by Samma rulers of Sindh, who took the throne of Sindh from their ruling cousins the Soomra. Jam Nazimuddin alias Jan Nando became the most famous native ruler of Sindh, his rule was the most properous, harmanous and the boundaries of Sindh were well protected. M. Saleem Akhtar in his book "Sind Under The Mughals" mentions that the throne of Sind was adorned by Jam Nizam al-Din Nandah (1461-1508), the penultimate ruler of Samma Dynasty.  The Jam's territories as pointed out by Erskine, reached from the ocean to the Multan territory, above Bheker, on the one side; and from Rajput desert and Kach, to Bolan Pass and Baluchistan on the other; compr...

Karoonjhar May be identified and declared as National Park According to: THE SIND WILDLIFE PROTECTION ORDINANCE, 1972. It Says: National park. 15. (1) With a view to the protection and preservation of scenery, flora and fauna in the natural state, Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare any area of outstanding scenic merit and natural interest to be a national park and, may demarcate it in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) A national park shall be accessible to public for recreation, education and research. (3) Provision for access roads to and construction of rest houses, hostels and other buildings in the national park alongwith amenities for public may be so made and the forest therein shall be so managed and forest produce obtained as not to impair the object of the establishment of the national park. (4) The following acts shall be prohibited in a national park: Pelican. (i) Hunting, shooting, trapping, killing or captu...

Crows make lovely couples, and they are very loving partners, affectionate, caring and humble. The new or mature individuals begin to flirt each other in early November, and the older ones immediately after parenting their young ones which are now adult enough to make their own.  Now the love-sick or the lovelorn individuals begin to invest their time to attract each other through daily dates, and spend many hours in allopreening and sharing food. They make a strong bond like the monogamous birds do.  Through November to March they live together, sit together and sleep together in dense tree foliage roosting on one of the chosen branches of the same tree. Crow is very shy bird when it comes to mating.  The couple hides itself in a secret roosting place where it mates after caressing each other. The breeding season starts from late March to August and in some places it continues from August to December in second spell. Once the couple bond is established it last...

The ideology of Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo was based on four principles including secularism, rationalism, reasoning and modern nationalism, claimed renowned critic and intellectual Jami Chandio in a homage paid to great Sindhi sholar, intellectual, educationist and political thinker Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo in a seminar at Dr. Abdul Jabbar Junejo Hall of Sindhi Department, University of Sindh, Jamshoro on Friday on the occasion of his second death anniversary. "In a period when there was religious extremism and intolerance everywhere, it was Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo only in Sindh, who openly said that he believed in rationalism and free thinking. If we talk about his ideology, it was purely based on four principles including secularism, rationalism, reasoning and modern nationalism and he dreamed about Sindh that was based on these four principles. Mr. Ibrahim Joyo was highly inspired by renaissance movement in Europe that brought age of reasoning and enlightenment. He believed in equa...