Interior Sindh

Interior Sindh is Pakistan's ancient heartland — a vast, sun-scorched floodplain where the Indus River gave birth to one of the world's earliest urban civilisations over five thousand years ago. The ruins of Mohenjo-daro, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, rise from the desert near Larkana, their fired-brick streets and drainage systems testifying to a sophistication that predates Rome by millennia. Across the province, crumbling medieval forts, Sufi shrines draped in coloured cloth, and weekly markets alive with embroidered textiles and camel traders preserve a way of life that has changed little in centuries. The white dunes of the Thar Desert shift toward the Indian border in the east, while the lower Indus floods its banks each monsoon to create vast seasonal wetlands rich in migratory birds. Bhit Shah, Sehwan Sharif, and Thatta are pilgrimage towns where qawwali music echoes through domed mosques at dusk — an experience unlike anywhere else in Pakistan.Read more