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	Umerkot Fort of Sindh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The possibility, however, of the place of birth of Emperor Akbar away from the fort may be justified by the fact that the first halt of Emperor Humayun in Umerkot was outside the fort.
		This school of thought, however, think instead that the Mian did not build it afresh but renovated the old fort which was situated at the very place of the present fort.
		In the southeastern portion are the buildings housing provincial government offices while on the other side in the northeastern corner is the newly built, ugly looking and still unfinished building of the 'gymkhana'.
	www.thesindh.com /Sindh/Historical%20Forts/Umerkot (1187 words)

	Umerkot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Umerkot or Omarkot (Urdu: عمرکوٹ) a (25.37°N 69.73°E) is town in the province of Sindh, Pakistan.
		It is also referred to as Amar Kot as per old histories, "Amar Kot Itehas" by Tej Singh Solanki, being most notable.
		Marvi was a young Thari girl abducted by Umar-the then Ruler because of her beauty and wanted to marry her but upon her refusal he kept her in prison in the historic Umerkot Fort for many years and finally end up releasing her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umerkot (231 words)

	Manipulation of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for Delineating Drought Vulnerable Areas
		Umerkot district lies between 24°-54' to 25°- 47' north latitudes and 69°- 11' to 70°- 18' east longitudes.
		A decrease in the vegetation cover of both the irrigated area and the desert area in Umerkot as evident from Figure 4.2 can be due to decline in water availability.
		In irrigated area, shortage of water occurs as the district is situated at the tails of Nara canal and Mithrao canal.
	gisdevelopment.net /application/natural_hazards/drought/nhdr0005f.htm (542 words)

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		The illness has already claimed lives of 12 children, while several more are still said to be seriously ill. According to the relatives of the deceased, measles-like spots appear on the body and within a few days, the sufferers die.
		Ghansham Das in Umerkot hospital, Chahchro Health Center and doctors in other health centers said that they have not received any health advisory from the government regarding this disease.
		[Umerkot & Golarchi are in South Sindh province, approximately 300 km from Karachi near the border with Rajasthan, India.
	www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:162709::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,17855 (451 words)

	THARPARKAR
		Until 1990, the present district of Tharparkar, Umerkot and Mirpur Khas comprised one district with Mirpur Khas its headquarters.
		Mirpurkhas and Thar established the town of Mithi as the new headquarters of the Tharparkar district, while Umerkot was bifurcated on 17th April 1-993.
		It is bounded on the north by Mirpurkhas and Umerkot districts, on east by Barmer and Jaisselmir districts of India, on west by district Badin and on south by Rann of Kutch.
	www.tharparkar.sdnpk.org /au.htm (1038 words)

	UmerKot -- ThingsAsian Article
		Umerkot is known as Umerkot by the Muslims of the town, and Amerkot by the Hindus.
		And Umerkot happens to be the largest town near India border on Pakistani side.
		The Fort of Umerkot is its prime attraction.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/tell_story.3111.html (678 words)

	OPF
		Archaeological Museum Umerkot was designed and constructed by the department of Archaeology, Government of Pakistan.
		Umerkot is Known in history for being the birth place of the great Mughal emperor Akbar.
		It was because of its affinity to that Muslim emperor that the Department of Archaeology, selected the place to display the relics relating to Akber and his period.
	opf.org.pk /almanac/M/museum.htm (2156 words)

	A taste of Mughal Gharana - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Not in the least plush, yet exuding an upmarket appeal, Umerkot could be passed off as a mansion from outside.
		The birthplace of Akbar, Umerkot was known for its their Gharana cuisine.
		Umerkot is not a place where you should zero in on familiar names.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun172006/metrosat1527372006616.asp (587 words)

	Hyderabad and Thar Deserts information
		Later drive further 80 KMs to Umerkot and continue to Mithi another 70 Kms.
		Until you reach Umerkot which is the largest town in Thar desert.
		There are several villages and town in east of Umerkot But there are no hotels etc. The only accommodation is to live in the villages with locals or get the tents.
	tours.hypermart.net /pakistan/hyd.htm (775 words)

	Pakistan Water Gateway - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HYDERABAD, June 22: Hundreds of families have migrated to urban areas in the tail of Nara Canal and the distributaries emanating from Farash Regulator due to the acute shortage of irrigation and drinking water.
		Over the last couple of years, the shifting of villagers reached an alarming level and according to a recent survey the whole of tail cultivatable area of the Nara Canal and Farash distributaries has been deserted.
		The worst-hit areas appeared to be Pithoro and Umerkot talukas of Mirpurkhas district.
	www.waterinfo.net.pk /a_Detail.cfm?ID=207 (214 words)

	ONLINE - International News Network
		The new districts are Kashmore, Qambar, Jamshoro, and Umerkot carved out of Jaccobabad, Larkana, Dadu and Mirpurkhas districts respectively.
		The creation of the new districts was announced by the Chief Minister Sindh Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim while addressing a press conference at the chief minister house on Monday.
		It is to be recorded that Umerkot had been declared district in late 1990s, but the notification was cancelled by the provincial government due to some unspecified reasons.
	www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=70434 (414 words)

	Pakistan Water Gateway - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A deep tube-well in village Soomon Taluka in district Umerkot was drilled some two months ago from which a fountain of water has sprung and it is oozing out water from the delivery pipe without pumping and flowing for 24 hours.
		Village Soomon is situated at a distance of 15 kilometres in north of famous Khokhrapar Railway station having nine sub-villages or paras (parts) with a population of about 1500 human souls and about 5000 live stock.
		The young educated villagers formed a welfare association in the name of “ Thar Sudhar Sangat” and then approached “ Thar Deep”, an NGO which agreed to financing a tube well project on a condition that unskilled labour would be provided by the village association.
	www.waterinfo.net.pk /article_rahamoo.htm (1074 words)

	FAO/WFP Joint Drought Assessment Mission in Sindh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The arid zones of Tharparkar, UmerKot, Thatta, and Sanghar districts have been severely affected by this recent drought and have been declared as calamity stricken areas by the Government.
		On an emergency basis, seeds of millet and guar should be provided in the affected areas of Tharparkar, Umerkot and Dadu Districts before the sowing season that starts from early July.
		Feed and roughage to the affected livestock population in all severely affected districts is needed for a period of a minimum of three months to last until pasture is available.
	www.un.org.pk /drought/sindhmission.htm (5138 words)

	Sindh News .... theSindh.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Two persons, one of them an army lance naik, were killed and four pedestrians were injured when a speedy pick-up collided head-on with another pick-up on the Umerkot-Chore road near Umerkot on Sunday.
		The injured, whose names could not be ascertained, were admitted to a hospital in Chore.
		The bodies were taken to the Umerkot Civil Hospital from where the body of Ajaib was despatched to Jhelum.
	www.thesindh.com /English/News/Show.asp?FID=352 (92 words)

	Karachi News
		A raid was conducted, on the complaint of three peasants, at "Cheema Farm" in Taluka Pithoro of district Umerkot.
		The additional district magistrate Umerkot and SDM Pithoro along with heavy contingent of police -- in presence of a three-member team of International Human Rights Commission -- got released 24 bounded labourers, including nine women and eight children of up to one month of age.
		When contacted, DC Umerkot Mushtaque Sheikh told The News that the matter was being investigated by District Vigilance Committee and in the light of its recommendations "I on my part will ensure justice to the victims."
	www.karachipage.com /news/Aug_00/082100.html (855 words)

	Anti-Slavery - Submissions 2002 - Bonded labour in Pakistan
		The report notes that most of these people are in debt bondage.
		Indeed one of the judgements that the High Court of Sindh refers to support its findings (a case decided by the Lahore High Court - Lahore 428) the judgement specifically refers to the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1992, indicating the 1992 Act's importance in reaching the decision to release the bonded labourers.
		In no other areas of Sindh such applications were made." This is not the case as large numbers of bonded laborers from other districts of Sindh (e.g.
	www.antislavery.org /archive/submission/submission2002-pakistan.htm (1346 words)

	Persecution of Hindus in PAKISTAN
		A ransom was only demanded for the release of the abducted Hindus - a price of one million rupees was paid by their family for their release.
		On July 27th Nikal Chand, 18, assistant at a medical store in Umerkot was kidnapped and killed.
		Another boy, Ranjhan Oad was held in Khaanji or Nijj Jail, a private jail of Haveli Arisar near Chhor in Umerkot.
	www.hinduhumanrights.org /Pakistan/extracts.htm (1121 words)

	Pakistan Water Gateway - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He said that 8 million acre feet water would be saved from wastage by lining the 29,000 watercourses in the province in the current year.
		Secretary Sabhago Khan Jatoi and Younus Dhaga providing the details of the ongoing works in districts Umerkot, Mirpurkhas and Tharparkar, needs and knowledge of various other problems, said that 71 water courses in Mirpurkhas, 52 in Umerkot and 20 in Tharparkar district would be lined during the current year.
		They directed the officers of other districts to inform about their problems and needs in writing so that the target of development works could be achieved.
	www.waterinfo.net.pk /a_Detail.cfm?ID=2969 (212 words)

	Accommodation in Sindh and Cheap Travel to Sindh, Pakistan :-) Hospitality Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The deserts begin immediately the irrigation ends: a striking contrast between green garden and sandy scrubland can be seen at Umerkot and Naokot areas near Mirpurkhas.
		The area from Hyderabad to Umerkot is irrigated and agriculture flourishes there.
		Mirpurkhas lies approximately in the middle of Hyderabad and Umerkot.
	secure.hospitalityclub.org /hc/membersrcexternal.php?country=148&xregion=Sindh (1947 words)

	sl-action
		Virtually all of these bonded labourers working on farms in the Sanghar, Mirpurkas and Umerkot Districts are from the indigenous Pakri community, which has its origins in the desert areas of southeast Sindh.
		In early 1999 Mangol was seen working on the farm in Umerkot District where he and his whole family had previously been in bondage, and he was reportedly being kept tied up at night.
		This past April, HRCP’s Special Task Force for Sindh Province recovered 33 bonded labourers from the private jail of a landlord in Taluka Khipro, in the District of Sanghar, and also secured the release of nine others from another landlord in Kunri, in the district of Umerkot.
	www.devp.org /slavery/sl-action.html (1399 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		UMERKOT: A peace caravan to Khokhropar zero point under the aegis of Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) was stopped at Umerkot but allowed after one hour to proceed.
		A peace convoy comprised of about 100 participants traveling in buses, cars and wagons from Mirpur Khas to Khokhropar was stopped by a heavy contingent of police led by DPO Umerkot Lal Mohammed.
		The DPO said he was unaware about permission by authorities for rally to the Khokhropar.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Dec05/23/06.htm (100 words)

	Karachi News
		The statement said that after verifying the allegations through its own sources, the STF had sent an application to the deputy commissioner of Umerkot district on Feb 29 requesting him to secure the release of the farmers according to the law.
		The copies of the communication had also been sent to the commissioner and the DIG of Mirpurkhas division, it said, adding that during that period, the field coordinator of the STF, Aftab Ahmed, had contacted the deputy commissioner and the SDM of Umerkot for the release of the farmers, but in vain.
		According to the statement, on April 18, the landlord, in connivance with the Umerkot and Chhor police, got five farmers, namely Dongar Bheel, Lalu Bheel, Kanji Bheel, Punnho Bheel and Chandu Bheel, arrested in a false theft case.
	www.karachipage.com /news/Apr_00/042100.html (1859 words)

	Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Interventions and activities to raise concern on the Hari issue and liberate bonded Haris continued through the year.
		The HRCP Special Task Force also organised a tribute to HRCP activist Khan Muhammed Banglani of district Umerkot.
		Banglani was murdered in broad daylight in front of a tea-shop in district Umerkot.
	www.hrcp-web.org /2000.cfm (3425 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Thatta
		The PML and allied parties won in Tharparkar, Thatta, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Tando Allahyar and Naushehro Feroze districts.
		SINDH: Karachi, Thatta, Tando Allahyar, Nausharo Feroz, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Sanghar and Tharparkar (10 districts).
		SINDH: Karachi district, Thatta, Tando Allah Yar, Ghotki, Nausharo Feroz, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Mirpurkhus, Umerkot, Sanghar and Tharparkar (11 districts).
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Thatta.htm (5716 words)

	THARPARKAR
		By 1967, these had increased to 25, but they still catered mainly to passengers to and from the desert.
		In the mid-seventies there was a big inl.:rease in the GMCs and by 1987 there were over 100 plying from Naukot to the desert and over 50 from Umerkot.
		These GMCs continue to ply their routes on the non-metalled roads of the desert despite the radical increase in the number of two and four-wheel drive vehicles, which are more fuel efficient and cost less to maintain, over the last decade.
	www.tharparkar.sdnpk.org /indt.htm (451 words)

	The Nation
		The Sindh government through notification created four new districts in the province with a view to providing administrative relief to the people.
		The new districts are Kashmore, Shahdadkot Jamshoro, and Umerkot carved out of Jacobabad, Larkana, Dadu and Mirpurkhas districts respectively.
		According to section 6(2) of the Land Revenue Act 1967, the government can vary the existing number and limits of districts or talukas of Sindh.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/dec-2004/30/columns4.php (920 words)

	Literature, Art & Music: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The fact that the muslims by and large praised him for his undoubted piety and adherence to orhtodox Islam added to the distrust between the two communities.
		about the museum of umerkot no akbar was not cremated here but it does create an effect to grow more closer on MOGhuls i must impose my view.
		HUMAYUN S way he followed form qannuj to umerkot and then his way to throne back the swords and the arsenal of that time.
	www.chowk.com /show_picks_book.cgi?pbookid=76 (2999 words)

	Xignite WorldNews - HUNDREDS OF POLITICAL ARTICLES DAILY FROM THE WORLD's LEADING MEDIA SOURCES
		We were travelling nearly 70 kilometres from Umerkot and heading towards Khokhrapar on the outskirts of Chhor Cantonment and parked on a very broad and new road.
		Though the jeep is facing the Rangers who can easily read the number plate, he asks Urs for the jeep number.
		He shows sympathy for the locals who he says are extremely poor and often die when sick as they do not have the means to hire transport to reach Umerkot.
	www.xignite.com /xWorldNews.aspx?articleid=SAP20060104081005 (1147 words)

	Four new districts created in Sindh -DAWN - Top Stories; 14 December, 2004
		A new district of Kashmore, with headquarters at Kandhkot, has been created out of the existing Jacobabad district and comprises talukas of Kashmore and Kandhkot.
		The government has also revived the district of Umerkot comprising talukas of Umerkot, Samaro, Kunri and Pithoro.
		In view of opposition's objections voiced recently over the government's plan to fragment the existing districts the chief minister was asked if public opinion had been invited on the matter.
	www.dawn.com /2004/12/14/top8.htm (634 words)

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