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Indus
Indus , chief river of Pakistan, c.1,900 mi (3,060 km) long, rising in the Kailas range in the Tibetan Himalayas, and flowing W across Jammu and Kashmir, India, then SW through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea SE of Karachi. The upper Indus, fed by snow and glacial meltwater from the Karakorum, Hindu Kus...
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Hyderabad
Hyderabad city (1998 pop. 1,151,274), Sind prov., S Pakistan. Pakistan's fourth largest city, it has long been noted for its embroideries, precious-metal goods, and cutlery. It now has industries in food processing, textiles, hosiery, cement, cigarettes, glass, soap, paper, leather goods, and plast...
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Sind
Sind , province (1998 pop. 29,991,161), c.50,000 sq mi (129,500 sq km), SE Pakistan, roughly coextensive with the lower Indus River valley and bounded by India on the east and south and by the Arabian Sea on the southwest. Karachi is the capital. The province takes its name from the river, which w...
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Sir Charles James Napier
Sir Charles James Napier , 1782-1853, British general; brother of Sir William Napier . He served with distinction in the Napoleonic Wars. Stationed (1822-30) on the Greek island of Cephalonia, he became acquainted with Lord Byron and was asked, although he declined, to command the Greek independenc...
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Edward Law Ellenborough, 1st earl of
Edward Law Ellenborough, 1st earl of , 1790-1871, British statesman; son of the 1st Baron Ellenborough. He served as president of the Board of Control of the East India Company (1828-30, 1834-35, 1841) and as governor-general of India (1841-44). His main achievement was the annexation of Sind (1843)...
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere , 1815-84, British colonial administrator; nephew of John Hookham Frere. He served (1850-59) as chief commissioner of Sind, distinguishing himself during the Indian Mutiny , and was (1862-67) governor of Bombay. In 1872 he negotiated a treaty with the sultan of Zanziba...
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Humayun
Humayun or Homayun , 1507-56, second Mughal emperor of India (1530-56), son and successor of Babur . In 1535, pressed by enemy incursions into Rajasthan, Humayun defeated the formidable Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. However military opposition, particularly that of Sher Khan in Bihar, grew in stre...
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Karachi
Karachi , city (1998 pop. 9,269,265), largest city and former capital of Pakistan, SE Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea near the Indus River delta. The capital of Sind prov., it is Pakistan's chief seaport and industrial center, a transportation, commercial, and financial hub, and a military headquarters...
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Pakistan
Pakistan
area:
| 796,100sq km (307,374sq mi)
| population:
| 130,578,000
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sign language
sign language gestural communication used as an alternative or replacement for speech. Sign languages resemble oral languages in every way other than their modality. As with oral languages, sign languages are acquired spontaneously and have highly intricate, rule-governed grammar and phonology ....
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