Sukkur

Sukkur is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh on the western bank of the Indus River, directly across from the historic city of Rohri, and the third largest city in Sindh after Karachi and Hyderabad. The original city was founded by the Rai dynasty of Sindh, while modern or New Sukkur was built beside what had been a small village, and the British set up a military garrison there in 1839 that was abandoned in 1845. Its barrage, about 1,524 metres long and made of yellow stone and steel, feeds seven large canals. After the formation of Pakistan most of the Hindu population, about 70 percent in 1941, migrated to India. Sukkur has a hot desert climate, and the 2023 census counted 563,851 people.