Nawabshah District

Infobox Pakistan district
district = Nawabshah District
area = 4,502
population = 1,071,533
pop_year = 1998
density =
established =
nazim = Faryal Talpur
naib_nazim = Abdul Haq Jamali
languages =
website = www.urckarachi.org/Population%20Table-5.htm

Nawabshah District (or Nawab Shah) is one of the districts in the province of Sindh, Pakistan, named after Syed Nawab Shah. The Syed family is a political power in local politics. The city's airport has one of the largest runways in Pakistan. The climate is dry and hot but sometimes falls to 0 degrees Celsius in winter.

Population

Religion

Islam:96.53%
Hinduism:2.88%
Christianity:0.33%
Ahmaddiya:0.23%
Others:0.03%

Languages

Sindhi:79.25%
Urdu:8.72% (mainly concentrated int he urban centers where they form 30.83% of the population)
Punjabi:7.90%
Balochi:1.82%
Seraiki:0.88%
Pashto:0.52%
Others:0.90%

History

After the 1853 invasion by General Charles Napier, Sindh was divided into provinces and was assigned to Zamindars (or landlords) to collect taxes for the British. Sindh was later made part of British India's Bombay Presidency and became a separate province in 1935. Nawabshah (Urdu: نوابشاہ) city (established in 1912) is located in the centre of Sindh, Pakistan, and is therefore often known as the Heart of Sindh.

Local government

* Daulatpur
* Nawabshah
* Sakrand
* Daur

References

* District Census Report of Nawabshah, Population Census Organisation, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad January 2000