Friday, December 3, 2010

SINDHI TOPI AND AJRAK DAY‏

SINDHI TOPI AND AJRAK DAY
 04 DECEMBER
by ABDUL LATIF SOORMO
DJM SECURITIES PVT LTD.

Sindh is a province of Pakistan. In Pakistan only Sindh is a province in which people of different languages are living in a very huge quantity. They are Sindhi, Balochi, Urdu, Punjabi, Pakhtoon, Kashmiri, Bengali and many others. Sindh is famous all over the world due it its hostess. The people of Sindh speaks Sindhi language, which is older than all the languages of Pakistan. Sindhi language is from the times of Moen-Jo-Daro Civilization which is more than 5000 years old. Sindhi language is the only language that have particular alphabets in local languages. Many of local languages adopted Sindhi alphabets in formation of their languages. Sindhi is the only language which is been studied in the Institutions of whole Sindh. Sindh is the only language in which the National Identification Card of Pakistan is being issued after national language of Pakistan. In ancient times this Sindh was starting from Mumbai, India to Multan(Punjab Province) & to Iran. But due to partitions Sindh became limited.


SINDHI CULTURE

History:

Sind is one of the four provinces in Pakistan located at the Southern border. The province of Sind has its name derived from the famous River Indus. In Sanskrit, the province was dubbed Sindhu meaning an ocean. Around 3000 B.C, Dravidian cultures developed and give rise to the Indus Valley Civilization. According to the Historians, Indus Valley Civilization declined due to the natural disasters such as floods but the invasions of Indo- Arians caused the sudden collapse of it.

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