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Notable People
 Khairpur District (Urdu: خیر پور) is a
district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The district has an area of
15,910 square kilometres and is headquartered at the city of Khairpur
Khairpur is the twelfth largest city in the province of Sindh in southeast
Pakistan. It is the capital of the modern Khairpur District and was the
capital of the former princely state of Khayrpur. This city produced
hundreds of great leaders, folk singers, artists and scholars. The great
mystic Sufi Sachal Sarmast, who was from this city. This city is famous for
its dates, known in the Sindhi language "Khark", and in Urdu as "Khajoor".
Location
Khairpur District is located in northern Sindh and is bounded on the north
by Shikarpur and Sukkur, on the east by India, on the south by Sanghar and
Nawabshah and on the west by Larkana and Naushahro Feroz and derives its
name from the town
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Demographics
According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, the district had a population of
1,546,587 of which 23.23% was urban. The average annual growth rate of the
population is 2.71%. As per definition of Board of Revenue Sindh, a place of
human habitation having at least ten houses is called a settlement. There
are 1,709 rural settlements in the district having population of 200 to
1000+ people.
Following are the demographic indicators of the district as per the 1998
census of Pakistan (Hindus and Christians as well as Urdu speakers are
mainly concentrated in the urban areas)
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History
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Main article, Khayrpur
(princely state)
Mir Ali Murad Talpur II in 1953Khairpur State was ruled by Talpur Mirs (ameers)
of the Talpur dynasty from 1783 to 1955. In 1947, when Pakistan gained
independence, Khairpur Mir's was one of the princely states that opted to
join Pakistan. In 1955, the Government of Pakistan announced the abolition
of all the princely states and Khairpur Mir's was annexed into the then
province of West Pakistan.
6 June 1963 on 2:00 pm: about 600 Shia's were killed by the students of a
religious Maderassa at Theri village during a religious procession (Ashura,
the tenth day of the Muslim month of Muharram)
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Sites of Interest
 Khairpur is dotted with historical sites. The Kot Diji Fort, said to be
built by the Talpurs, stands on a high hill with massive walls surrounding
an elaborate complex of exquisite homes, ornate canopies, marbled
courtyards, promenades and long corridors with arched entryways. The
corridors run along deep rooms which now lay dark and can get infested with
bats. Another architectural classic is the Faiz Mahal, built in 1798 as the
palace of the Talpur family in Khairpur Mirs. Besides, there are other
palaces, tomb sites in Kot Diji and the surrounding areas. The present
successor of the Talpur Dynasty, Mir Ali Murad Khan Talpur, who acceded to
the Pakistani state in 1956, is a conservationist and has to his credit an
impressive wildlife sanctuary called the Mehrano, known for its black buck,
and hog deer, both of which have become rare in Sindh.
The north-western part of Thar Desert lies in Khairpur district. Rohri Hills
are a tourist attraction for the tombs of Pir Ubhan Shah near Kotdiji, Shadi
Shaheed near Layari, Tehsil Kotdiji and Pir Baqir Shah near Choondko.
Mehrano, Nara, Kalmi Quran, Thar Dhani, shah jee machine at solangi and many
other sites also draw tourist traffic.
Tomb of Jamal Shah is located on the bank of Jamal Shah lake. Water of this
lake is popular for the treatment of skin diseases. Many people come to take
bath from this lake and they get healthy.
Bachal Shah Jo Pawrho, the neighbourhood of Bachal Shah, is one of the
oldest settlements of the town of Khairpur. It is named after the Sufi Saint
Bachchal Shah whose shrine is located in the neighbourhood. A three-day
festival is celebrated every year at the shrine. The neighbourhood sits by
Khairpur's main irrigation artery, Mirwah, meaning the Mir canal
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Agriculture
Khairpur is noted for its bountiful harvest of dates. However, the soil is
suitable for many cash crops including cotton and wheat. The dry, hot
climate makes the fruit very sweet, supple and juicy. It is very hot and
sunny during the summer and cold in winter. Humidity is low. Khairpur gets
its water through a web of canals coming out of River Indus. Mir Wah is the
main source of irrigation and drinking water.
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Economy
Khairpur trades in wheat, cotton, and dates and is linked by road and rail
to Karachi. Manufactures include refined sugar. Prior to the annexation of
the state in to Pakistan in 1955, Khairpur was an industrially much more
advanced than Pakistan producing leather goods, carpets, silk clothing,
matches, soap, shoes, cigarettes to name a few. It also had the largest
factories in textiles, tobacco redrying, and silk weaving in the
sub-continent.
It has some fine historic buildings notably the Faiz Mahal
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Tribes
Major Tribes Are :_ Talpur, Jamali, Thebo, Gajani, Shah, Tagar, Jillani,
Khuwaja, Abro, Memon, Shaikh, Phulpoto, Wassan, Rind, Leghari, Jagirani,
Jatoi, Lashari.
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Notable People
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Ali Murad
Talpur - former ruler of the princely state of Khairpur
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Qaim Ali
Shah - current Chief Minister of Sindh province
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Ghous Ali
Shah - former defence minister of Pakistan and former Chief Minister of
Sindh province
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Abdul
Hameed Dogar - former Justice of the High Court of Sindh and former
Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
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Sachal
Sarmast - eighteenth-century Sufi poet
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Babar Ali
Jamali - Next Leader Of Sindh.
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