Naudero

Naudero, also spelt Naundero,Nodero (Urdu: نوڈیرو) is a town and Union Council of Ratodero Taluka in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan^[1]. The Union Council also includes the village of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. It is located at 27°40'0N 68°22'0E and lies to the north-west of the district capital Larkana^[2].

Naudero lies 12 miles north-east from Larkana city; it has road communication with Larkana, Shikarpur, Rato-dero and Fatehpur. The Ghar canal flows past the town. It is the head-quarter station of a Tapadar, and has in addition to a police force of 5 men, a Government school, district bungalow, dharmshala, and cattle-pound.

The population of Naudero is about 80,000. Naudero schools include Bakhtawar Model School, Naudero Model School, Benazir Institute for Education, Z.A Bhutto Model School, Government Primary School 1, 2 and 3, Government English Medium School Naudero, Government (Boys) Higher Secondary School Naudero, Govt: (Girls) Higher Secondary School Naudero, Govt: Degree College Naudero. There are many personal libraries -Tagore Library ,Umer Khayyam Library ,including a memorial library named khan Bahadur ahmed Khan Bhutto Memorial Library.

Notable residents include Shaheed Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto, Father of the Nuclear programme, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto ( June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, [5] having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime minister.

It is the second most important town of Ratodero Taluka, and has a railway station. In the days of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto a big industrial complex was established here known as "Larkano Sugar Mills". This town is famous because of Quaid Awam Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. There are Bhutto family's bungalows in the town and vast agricultural land in the surrounding area, and many of their relatives live here. The first one of the Bhutto family to reside here was Rasool Bakhsh Khan Bhutto, after him Khanbahadur Ahmed Khan Bhutto became the pagdar. Shaheed former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is buried nearby.^[3]

Trading of rice is very common in the town, and guava is 'exported' in very large quantities. This town is linked with the district capital Larkana by road.

Article by Mukhtiar Ali Khokhar

References

1. ^ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Larkana - Government of Pakistan
2. ^ Location of Naudero - Falling Rain Genomics
3. ^ Pakistan mourns Bhutto, as Al Qaeda claims responsibility - The Christian Science Monitor

Coordinates: 27°40′0″N 68°22′0″E / 27.666667°N 68.366667°E / 27.666667; 68.366667