Umerkot District
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Umerkot District or Umarkot District is a district
Districts of Pakistan
The Districts of Pakistan are the second order administrative divisions of Pakistan. Districts were the third order of administrative divisions, below provinces and "divisions", until the reforms of August 2000, when "divisions" were abolished...

 of Sindh
Sindh
Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 province, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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History

After the 1843 invasion by Charles Napier
Charles James Napier
General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB , was a general of the British Empire and the British Army's Commander-in-Chief in India, notable for conquering the Sindh Province in what is now Pakistan.- His genealogy :...

, Sindh was divided into provinces and was assigned a Zamindar
Zamindar
A Zamindar or zemindar , was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and ruled over and taxed the bhikaaris who lived on batavaslam. Over time, they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja , Raja , Nawab , and Mirza , Chowdhury , among others...

s, also known as Wadaras, to collect taxes for the British
United Kingdom
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Administration

The district is administratively subdivided into the following talukas
Tehsil
A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

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  • Kunri
    Kunri
    Kunri , is a small town located in the Sindh province in the southern part of Pakistan. It is about from Karachi, one of the largest cities in Pakistan. It has a population of about 100,000, composed of mostly Muslims; however, there is a large Christian, Kashmiri, and Hindu minority...

  • Pithoro
  • Samaro
    Samaro
    Samaro is a town in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The town is the headquarters of a taluka of Mirpur Khas District.-History:...

  • Umerkot
    Umerkot
    Umarkot or Umer Kot,, also known as Amar Kot, Omarkot and Omercote, is town in the Umerkot District in Sindh, Pakistan...


District Government Official website

The Information Technology Department, District Government has launched District Government Umerkot's official websites.

1.District Government Umerkot Official website (English Version)

2.District Government Umerkot Official website (Sindhi Version)

3.District Government Umerkot Official website (Sindhi Version)
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