Pakistani government officials have expressed concern about President Barack Obama’s new Afghan strategy, which calls for Pakistan to step up its co-operation against the Taliban in exchange for a …
February 2008
Is this the beginning of the end for Musharraf? While few expected the elections to be fair, there’s massive discontent with his rule. The opposition are planning large protests if th…
Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Saturday as the the government launched its most critical offensive yet against insurg…
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the US has a rapid response unit ready to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in the event of a mutiny or “any nuclear incident”, a claim the US and Pakist…
Sindhi musicians. Singing, instruments. Traditional music, classical, film music. Pakistan, Sindh. CLoseups of instruments and singers. Imam Deen. Eckova Productions
Sindh (Sindhī: سنڌ, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhis. Different cultural and ethnic groups also reside in Sindh including Urdu-speaking Muslim refugees who migrated to Pakistan from India upon independence as well as the people migrated from other provinces after independence. The neighbouring regions of Sindh are Balochistan to the west and north, Punjab to the north, Gujarat and Rajasthan to the southeast and east, and the Arabian Sea to the south. The main language is Sindhi. The Assyrians (as early as the seventh century BCE) knew the region as Sinda. The Persians as Abisind, the Greeks as Sinthus, the Romans as Sindus, the Chinese as Sintow, in Sanskrit, the province was dubbed Sindhu meaning "Ocean" while the Arabs dubbed it Al-Sind.