SINDH

Sindh

Sindh is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran" and has been given the title of Bab-ul-Islam . The name of Sindh is derived from the Indus River that separates it from Balochistan and the greater Iranian Plateau. This river was known to the ancient Iranians in Avestan as Hindu, in Sanskrit as Sindhu, to Assyrians as Sinda, to the Greeks as Indos, to the Romans as Indus, to the Persians as Ab-e-sind, to the Pashtuns as "Abasind", to the Arabs as Al-Hind, to the Chinese as Sintow, and to the Javanese as the Santri.

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