Dadu District was formed in April 1931 by bifurcating it from Larkana and Karachi District. It is situated on Right Bank of River Indus.

Hyderabad is a city built on three hillocks cascading over each other. Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro of theKalhora Dynasty founded the city in 1768.

Karachi was made the capital of Sindh in the 1840s. Karachi was a small port town and part of Talpur dynasty in Sindh.

It was founded in 1783 by Mir Sohrab Khan. The great mystic Sufi Sachal Sarmast came from this city.

On 14 August 1947, Mirpur was part of the princely state of Kashmir under the rule of Maharaja Hari Singh. A revolt against his rule erupted with the advent of Pakistan. 

Nawbshah was establishes in 1912. Before 1912 it was a smaller town and part of Hyderabad district.

Rohri is a town of Sukkur District.. In 962 it was hit by a massive earthquake that changed the course of the Indus River.

Sehwan

Sehwan town stands on the west bank of the Indus.  It is possible that the name Sehwan originates from "Siwistan" or "Seevistan", the kingdom of Raja Dahir.

The trade links of Shikarpuris were spread all over to Geneva, Rome, Iran, Iraq, Samarkand, Sumatra, Japan, Burma, Honolulu, etc. There was a branch of Central Bank of Asia in Bajaj Street in Shikarpur, which testified to these links.

Modern Sukkur was built by the British general Sir Charles Napier in the 1840s.  The word Sakharu in Sindhi means "superior". Sukkur is nicknamed Darya Dino (meaning the gift of river), as without the Indus the city would be a desert.

Tharparkar is the only fertile desert in the world. It derives its names from Thar and Parkar. Thar means sand region or sand ridges and Parkar literary means “to cross over”.

Thatta is a historic town. The city, formerly commanding the delta of the Indus, was the capital of Lower Sindh from the 14th century onwards. During the Samma dynasty, Thatta was the capital of Sindh for 95 years.

Some ancient and some not so ancient pictures of Sindh