Jungshahi

Jungshahi

Jungshahi is a town of Thatta District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It lies to the west of Karachi at 24°51'26N 67°46'21E [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PK/5/Jungshahi.html Location of Jungshahi - Falling Rain Genomics] ] and is a Union Council of Thatta tehsil [ [http://www.nrb.gov.pk/lg_election/union.asp?district=38&dn=Thatta Tehsils & Unions in the District of Thatta] ] . In 1949 Major General Muhammed Iftikhar Khan, who was due to become the first native C-in-C of the Pakistan army after the retirement of Sir Douglas Gracey, died in an air-crash near the city [Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism - Hassan Abbas] . Jungshahi is 13 miles west of the district capital Thatta, during British rule the North Western Railway connected the town with Karachi [ [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V23_260.gifImperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 254.] ] .

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