Kandhkot

Kandhkot is a city in Kashmore District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. According to the 2017 census it was the 98th largest city of the country, and the 2023 census counted 99,155 people, most of whom speak Sindhi. The present city is only about 200 years old: the Kalhora dynasty built a fort here in its final days, after which the area passed to the Talpur rulers, and in 1841 Khangarh, now Jacobabad, was handed over to East India by treaty, at a time when Kandhkot was still a small village of about a hundred people. The Kandhkot gas field, found in 1959, lies nearby. In late 2022 the city was hit by major flooding, and a bridge over the Indus linking it to Ghotki has been planned by the Sindh government.