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| | KARACHI: Babul Islam day observed -DAWN - Local; October 05, 2006 |
 | | Speakers at the meeting maintained that the conquest of Sindh by Mohammed bin Qasim was not for the territorial expansion of Muslim kingdom, but for abolishing tyranny, religious intolerance and class prejudices which were prevailing in Sindh at that time. |
 | | Describing the history of Sindh’s conquest, the speakers recalled that several expeditions were undertaken by Arabs, and finally Mohammad bin Qasim, a youth of 17, invaded Sindh with a force of 15,000 infantry plus horse and camel cavalry and was armed with five catapults, the largest of which took 500 men to operate. |
 | | Mohammad bin Qasim conquered and reorganized the whole of the country from the mouth of Indus to the borders of Kashmir, a distance of 800 miles in the span of three years, 712-15 AD, the speakers added.—PPI |
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