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A historical region of southern Pakistan along the lower Indus River. Inhabited since prehistoric times, it was held by Muslim dynasties from the 11th century until 1843, when it was annexed to British India. Sind became part of Pakistan in 1947. or Sindh Province (pop., 1998: 29,991,000), southeastern Pakistan. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the south. The capital is Karachi. The centre of the ancient Indus civilization, it was annexed to the Persian Achaemenian Empire in the 6th century BC. Conquered by Alexander the Great in 325 BC, it was part of the Mauryan empire in the 3rd century BC. It fell to the Arabs AD 711. In the 16th-17th centuries it was ruled by the Mughals. It came under British control in 1843. After Pakistan's independence, Sind was integrated into the province of West Pakistan but in 1970 was reestablished as a separate province. It is arid except in the irrigated Indus River valley, where cotton, wheat, and rice are grown and where the population is concentrated

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Sindh
One of the southern provinces of Pakistan, whose capital is Karachi. It is also the area in which the Indus Valley Civilization flourished
Sindh
{i} one of the provinces in Pakistan
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