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Under Construction Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, 1885-1889 Lansdowne Bridge in 1897 Entry to the Lansdowne Bridge Sukkur. The Lansdowne Bridge (Sindhi لينسڊائون پل; Urdu: لینس ڈاؤن پل) over the Indus at Sukkur was one of the great engineering feats of the 19th century. The longest cantilever bridge ever built, it had to support ...
Chiniot Bridge (also known as Rabwah Bridge) (Urdu: چنیوٹ پل) is a concrete made bridge located in the Chiniot passing over the Chenab River in Pakistan. It is about 520 meters in length and 17.8 meters wide. It is a two-lane bridge with 26 spans of 40 meters each.
Teen Hatti is a bridge over the Lyari River in Karachi, Pakistan. [1]The origin of its name is uncertain, but the prevalent opinion is that long ago there were three roadside houses (in Goan "Hatti" means house) at or near the current bridge, hence the name "teen" (meaning "three" in Urdu) and "hatti" (meaning roadside houses in Urdu).
The name Urdu was first introduced by the poet Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi around 1780. [29] [30] As a literary language, Urdu took shape in courtly, elite settings. [80] [81] While Urdu retained the grammar and core Indo-Aryan vocabulary of the local Indian dialect Khariboli, it adopted the Perso-Arab writing system, written in the Nastaleeq style.
The region around Sukkur has been inhabited for millennia. The ruins of Lakhan-jo-daro, located near an industrial park on the outskirts of Sukkur, [8] date from the Mature Harappan period of the Indus Valley Civilization, between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE covers more than 300 Hectares of area and is touted to be second largest city of the Indus Valley Civilization just 75 Kilometers away from ...
The Nine-turn bridge (Chinese: 九曲桥) or Zigzag bridge is one of the features of Chinese Gardens, where the bridge is designed to turn several times, so one can enjoy viewing different scenes. The bridge is usually made of stones or concrete with decorated guard rails , and the angles of the turns can be at right angles, at any other angle ...
[1] [2] It stretches over five spans and the total length of the bridge is 1,948 feet (594 m). [3] Kotri Bridge. It has single railway track and roads on either side of railway track. In the early 1980s another railway bridge, known as Mehran Railway Bridge, was constructed alongside the old bridge.
Sukkur Barrage is used to control water flow in the River Indus for the purposes of irrigation and flood control. This barrage which is the backbone of the economy of the entire country enables water to flow through what was originally a network of seven canals 9,923 kilometres (6,166 mi) long, feeding the largest irrigation system in the world, with more than 7.63 million acres of irrigated ...