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	Sindh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sukkur Taluka; and Rohri Municipal Committee of Sukkur District.
		Kotri Taluka; Thano Bola Khan Taluka; and Sehwan Taluka of Dadu District.
		Khairpur Nathan Shah Taluka; and Mehar Taluka of Dadu District.
	www.hrcpelectoralwatch.org /sindh.cfm (1193 words)

	Sukkur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sukkur (Urdu: سکھر) (Sindhi:سکر) is the third largest city of Sindh province, situated on the west bank of Indus River (Pakistan) in Sukkur District.
		Sukkur is chiefly dominated by Muslims that constitute 96% of total population.
		Sukkur had a large fertile and cultivable land till few decades ago, when the Indus river was not as barren as today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sukkur (1163 words)

	Sukkur - LoveToKnow 1911
		Sukkur has always commanded the trade of Sind, and the river is now crossed by a cantilever bridge carrying the North-Western railway to Kotri.
		The District Of Sukkur was created in 1901 out of part of Shikarpur district, the remainder of which was formed into the district of Larkana.
		A considerable part of the district is irrigated, the principal crops being wheat, millets, rice, pulses and oil seeds.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sukkur (242 words)

	Sukkur District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sukkur district (talqa) in Sindh Province in Pakistan is divided into 4 administrative strata (tehsils), namely; Sukkur City, Rohri, Saleh Pat and Pano Akil.
		Among them Sukkur city is an urban centre while Pano Akil is famous for having one of largest military cantonment of the country.
		Rohri is the smallest tehsil of the Sukkur district, both in area and population but is has one of ancient and important railway junction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sukkur_District (260 words)

	SUKKUR: District nazim officials, summoned: Water contamination case -DAWN - Local; 22 December, 2004
		SUKKUR, Dec 21: The Sindh High Court, Sukkur circuit bench, has summoned the Sindh attorney general, district nazim and officials of the irrigation department, including Chief Engineer Sukkur Barrage and Chief Engineer Guddu Barrage, to appear in the court on Jan 18 in connection with a petition filed by Asad Pathan.
		The petitioner stated that the EDO health Sukkur, Dr Khalid Shaikh, sent a report to above named officers in which he stated that the samples of tap water collected from various places of the city revealed that water was not fit for human consumption.
		Earlier, the petitioner had filed a petition in the bench against Sukkur District Nazim, the DCO, the Taluka nazim, the TMO, the director-general of the Sindh health services, the EDO health, EDO public health engineering, the EDO works and services, Chief Engineer Sukkur Barrage, Chief Engineer Guddu Barrage on Dec 15.
	www.dawn.com /2004/12/22/local30.htm (509 words)

	Sukkur, Pakistan - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sukkur district teachers staged a sit-down protest outside the press club, while in Larkana they rallied in front of the district council hall.
		The residents of Pano Aqil, District Sukkur, Shaista and her husband Balkh Sher were produced in the Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, on December 4, where the...
		...in Karachi, 264 in Lahore, 74 in Peshawar, 37 in Quetta, 266 in Multan, 116 in Gujranwala, 86 in Hyderabad, 132 in Rawalpindi, 138 in Sargodha, 49 in Sukkur...
	www.4newz.net /world/nz/Sukkur.html (5152 words)

	sukkur homepage
		Sukkur is the central city of Sind province, It is located on the west bank of the River Indus.
		Sukkur is also the narrowest point of the lower Indus.
		Visit the Shrine of War Mubarak Near Rohri Railway station towards Sukkur this Shrines holds a holy Hair of Prophet Mohammed PBUH Later drive to the island of Bakhar and visit The shrine of Khwaja Khizar well known as Zinda Pir (Living Saint) He was a Sufi who became famous among the local people.
	www.geocities.com /khinews/apnasukkur.htm (760 words)

	Pakistan: Insufficient protection of women - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Sukkur, six-year-old girl Asma, was in 2000 married to a 60-year-old man when Asma's family was unable to repay a debt to the man. According to newspaper reports the marriage was consummated and the little girl screamed loudly for hours after the rape.
		Robina and Khushi Mohammad of Marianwala village in Gujranwala district were hunted down and killed in May 2000 by Robina's uncle and two brothers over two years after their wedding against the wishes of her family; they had been in hiding but had finally returned to the husband's home.
		District and Sessions Judge Kazim Ali made an unannounced visit to the City Jail in Gujranwala on 19 October 2000 on complaints of torture and ill treatment of several women detainees by prison staff.
	web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/recent/ASA330062002?OpenDocument (18978 words)

	JACOBABAD/SUKKUR: District govt system to be protected -DAWN - Local; 08 July, 2004
		He was talking to news men at the office of the district naib nazim here.
		He said to make the district government viable, concrete efforts would be taken to ensure that things are going on well with proper checks and balances, but was of the opinion that the system will take time to strengthen.
		He said that, some 15 meetings were held to decide on a better police system, and district government system, after which it is decided to make the police system and district government system even better.
	www.dawn.com /2004/07/08/local23.htm (241 words)

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		Sukkur is also a divisional headquarter and the third largest city in the province with a sizable population, 70% of whom live in rural areas.
		It is an essentially rural district with 90% of the population living in a desert area.
		The consulting time in districts varied sharply from 1.8 minutes in the urbanized town of Sukkur as compared to 3.2 minutes in the rural district of Thar, indicating that in urban areas the physician are giving less time to their patients in public sector facilities.
	dcc2.bumc.bu.edu /prdu/Other_Documents/Khalil_Concentration_Paper.htm (8552 words)

	History of persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - 1981-90
		Chaudhry Mahmood Ahmad martyred in Pannu Aqil district Sukkur.
		Syed Qamrul Haq and Rao Khalid Suleman martyred in Sukkur.
		Naseer Ahmad Alvi martyred in Dour, district Nawabshah.
	www.thepersecution.org /facts/h81-90.html (1668 words)

	Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2001 the federal government abolished the third tier of government (administrative divisions) in favour of the former fourth tier districts.
		The provinces and the capital territory are subdivided into a total of 107 districts which contain numerous tehsils and local governments.
		Pakistani society is largely multilingual and predominantly Muslim, with high regard for traditional family values, although urban families have grown into a nuclear family system due to the socio-economic constraints imposed by the traditional joint family system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pakistan (4967 words)

	PAKISTAN: A honor killing victim's family suffers from the police inaction
		Wazeeran(50) was killed by her husband's three nephews Zaheer (25), Qaaim-u-ddin (24), and Mohammad Salih (24) at her house in Rohrri Town, Sukkur District, Sindh Province on 7 March 2004.
		At the time of her death, she was elected as a counselor representing the ladies in Union Council Rohrri according to the President of Pakistan's progamme of "Devolution of Power" to the district level.
		Due to this fact, a resolution was moved in Sukkur District Council to arrest the perpetrators but it did not earn any positive results.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2004/664 (1656 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Shikarpur
		Soomro, of the Shikarpur District in Sindh Province, is director of Asia Kalimatullah Evangelism Ministry and a translator of the New International Version in the Sindhi language.
		Sukkur and Shikarpur district police officers later contacted Mehboob Mehr, secretary to Federal Minister Ghous Bux Mehr, who assured the protestors that a case would be registered at the Bagarji police station.
		Sukkur: Police sealed at least 20 offices of the defunct Millat-e-Islami, Islami Tehrik and Khuddam-e-Islam on Sunday, in Sukkur, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Ghotki and Naushahro Feroze.
	news.surfwax.com /worldcities/files/Shikarpur_Pakistan.html (763 words)

	The News - International
		The manners and habits of the girl, a student at a government school, were not of a female so her teachers brought the matter to the notice of her parents.
		SUKKUR: Relatives of Darwesh Shar and Bhooral Shar have demanded judicial inquiry into the killing of both the youth by the Kashmore police on late Monday night in a “fake” encounter.
		District Coordinator Officer (DCO) Jamshoro Muhammad Khawar Jamil on Wednesday wrote a letter to federal communication secretary and the IG Sindh Motorway Police, requesting the deployment.
	www.thenews.com.pk /daily_detail.asp?id=21104 (2179 words)

	Khairpur, Pakistan - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		According to doctors of hospitals in Sukkur and Khairpur, conditions of eight of the injured were critical.
		SUKKUR: A poor response was given to the strike call of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) in Sukkur, Rohri, Khairpur and other towns of interior Sindh on Friday...
		Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Nafisa Shah, Shabbir Ahmed Bijarani and District Naib Nazim Khalid Channa, DPOs and the Ulema of Sukkur, Khairpur, Naushahro Feroze...
	www.4newz.net /world/am/Khairpur.html (2277 words)

	Pakistan Water Gateway - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There are 1,445 watercourses in Nawabshah district, of which 535 have already been lined and the remaining 910 will be lined soon.
		SUKKUR: The government has planed lining of 2,320 watercourses in Sukkur district at a cost of Rs1449.399 million.
		ADMISSIONS: The principal of the Paramedical and Health Technician School, Sukkur, has announced schedule for admissions to courses of heath technicians, laboratory technicians, X-Ray technicians, ECG technicians, operation theatre technicians and ultrasound technicians.
	www.waterinfo.net.pk /a_Detail.cfm?ID=113 (396 words)

	Degrees of Deceit
		SUKKUR: A Pakistan People’s Party-Parliamentarian (PPPP) leader on Friday challenged the graduation degree of Saleem Jan Mazari, an MNA from Kashmore in Jacobabad district.
		The Sukkur divisional administration during the time, reportedly intervened and 'pressurized' the then PML MPA Sandra Saleem Jan Mazari and Chief Sardar Sunder Khan Sunderani who went into the forest for the girls' recovery.
		The political field in Shikarpur district is also open for the new-comers as the bigwigs of the district, Sardar Himmat Kumario, Babul Khan Bhayyo, Moulana Abdullah Pahor and Siraj Shah Amroti, are reportedly non-graduates.
	www.louwho.com /hometwo/Scam.html (4501 words)

	Pakistan Water Gateway - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		SUKKUR: The Agriculture Component of the Indus River Dolphin Conservation Project (IRDCP) Sukkur, in collaboration with the Agriculture Extension Department and the Sindh Rural Support Organisation, organised a Farmers' Field Day in Naseerabad on Wednesday.
		The purpose of organising the day was to empower the farming community to adopt better management practices in their agriculture, which had direct impact on the life of the Indus river dolphin, a threatened species in the world,, according to official press statement.
		WWF-P Director Hamad Naqi and others also spoke on the occasion and the District Officer Agriculture Extension Sukkur Sattar Ghaghro and others shared their views about better management practices of agriculture developed at different experimental plots in Sukkur district with participatory approach of farmers of the area.
	www.waterinfo.net.pk /a_Detail.cfm?ID=2822 (237 words)

	Karachi News
		Presiding over a high level meeting at Central Police Office (CPO) on Tuesday, he directed the city police chief and all district chiefs to keep strict vigil on groups and elements who were involved in such killings and trying to bring Ummah against each other on the ground of sectarianism under the cover of religion.
		SUKKUR, July 25: The Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (Ponam) on Tuesday took out a procession from the Tir Chowk, instead of the previously announced venue, Lab-i-Mehran, to the Clock Tower to protest against the construction of the Kalabagh Dam.
		SUKKUR, July 25: The chairman, general secretary and deputy general secretary of the Jiay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) were arrested during a raid in Shamshadabad.
	www.karachipage.com /news/Jul_00/072600.html (1811 words)

	Recent cases of ‘honour killing’ in Sindh Province, Pakistan
		He said that as Zaheer’s father Sherdil is a police head constable in Sukkur District, the police had to date taken no serious action to investigate the matter.
		As noted, at the time of her death, she was elected as a counsellor representing women in the Rorrhi Union Council under a programme of devolution of power.
		Due to this, a resolution was moved in the Sukkur District Council to arrest the perpetrators, but it did not get any positive results.
	www.article2.org /mainfile.php/0303/147 (3866 words)

	Thrown to the wolves
		Manzilgah was a couple of dilapidated structures on the bank of the Sindhu in Sukkur near the Sadhbela Island Mandir of the Hindus.
		The Hindu Panchayat of Sukkur has, it seems, succeeded in coercing them to a line of action which they would not have taken if they had the choice or the requisite courage to stand by the principles of the Congress.
		But even then the case of Thar Parker district was on par with that of Sylhet in Assam, where the Muslim League had demanded --- and got --- part of the district, through a plebiscite.
	yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu /~jamali/sindh/story/node18.html (4422 words)

	Pakistani Muslims destroy churches, said Koran desecrated by a Christian - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The protesters ransacked two churches in the city of Sukkur, about 480 kilometres (300 miles) north of the provincial capital Karachi, Sindh provincial government spokesman Salahuddin Haider told AFP.
		"They partly set the two churches on fire," Sukkur district police chief Aftab Halipoto told AFP by telephone, adding that a school at one of the churches had been damaged.
		Sukkur has recently been the scene of almost daily protest rallies against the cartoons.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20060219T200000-0500_99089_OBS_PAKISTANI_MUSLIMS_DESTROY_CHURCHES__SAID_KORAN_DESECRATED_BY_A_CHRISTIAN.asp (358 words)

	Human Rights Correspondence School
		The alleged reason for the murder of the girls was that they visited their grandparents in the nearby city of Sukkur without permission.
		That same day, her father, accompanied by six members of his tribe, physically attacked the house of Ehsan's parents, threatening to kill Shazia, declared by them to be a 'kari' and Ehsan, her legally wedded husband, a 'karo'.
		In fact, there was even a resolution moved in the Sukkur District Council to arrest the perpetrators of this case, but it did not earn any positive results.
	www.hrschool.org /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=65&cid=2 (2649 words)

	Faith Freedom International :: View topic - Honor Killing And Blasphemy Laws from Q'uran: The Effects
		In a similar incident in Mian Chunnu, Khanewal district, Muhammad Akram of Chhab Kalan village killed his sister, Mussarat, after she refused to marry a man chosen for her by the family.
		SUKKUR, Oct 3: A woman was gunned down by her husband and his accomplices on the pretext of karo-kari in Jafferabad village in the Abad police area on Monday.
		SUKKUR, Oct 9: Bodies of three women who were killed on the pretext of karo-kari and thrown into the Indus River have not been found by the police.
	www.faithfreedom.org /forum/viewtopic.php?p=204900 (3036 words)

	Pakistan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Lake Saiful-Muluk — a lake in the mountainous Mansehra district north of the Galyat region.
		Traditional family values are highly respected and considered sacred, although urban families have grown into a nuclear family system, owing to the socio-economic constraints imposed by the traditional joint family system.
		The past few decades have seen emergence of a middle class in cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Faisalabad, Sukkur, Peshawar, Gujrat, Abbottabad, Multan, etc. The Northwestern part of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, is highly conservative and dominated by centuries-old regional tribal customs.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/a/k/Pakistan.html (6167 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The meeting held at Sindh Assembly building to review arrangements for the holding of local government elections 2005 was attended by the I. Sindh, District and Sessions judges/ DROs and senior officials of the provincial government.
		Provincial home secretary said over 95,000 personnel of the police, Rangers, Frontier Constabulary and private guards will hold responsibility of the law and order in the province and 150 video cameras will be installed at various places in the province.
		District Returning Officer of Sukkur informed the CEC about tribal clashes in district Sukkur and asked for deployment of heavy contingents of the police or military in the district during the polls.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Aug05/06/01.htm (209 words)

	Asia Times: The president, and Pakistan, are here to stay
		Many of their 200,000 representatives, who won their seats with the help of established political parties opposed to the general, have had their arms twisted to facilitate a "smooth" vote.
		The mayor of the Sukkur district is a case in point.
		Multinational corporations, which in the past have never been involved in local politics, have been persuaded by the military establishment to support the referendum, with many taking out costly advertisements in the national press to champion the president's cause.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/DD26Df01.html (1410 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Pakistan: Year in brief 2005 - Chronology of key events Jan-Jun
		And we are receiving similar reports from the adjoining districts of Sukkur, Jacobabad, Larkana and Naushero Feroze," said Dr Hadi Bux Jatoi, director-general (DG) of health services in Sindh.
		He was talking to IRIN from Sukkur district, some 480 km from the Sindh capital, Karachi, on Friday.
		The call follows heavy rains and snow in January and February of this year that killed hundreds and severely damaged houses, roads, schools and hospitals in isolated parts of the province.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/DPAS-6KZCMS?OpenDocument (1211 words)

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