When the primitive village communities in Baluchistan were still struggling against a difficult highland environment, a highly cultured people were trying to assert themselves at Kot Diji one of the most developed urban civilization of the ancient world that flourished between the year 25,00 BC and 1,500 BC in the Indus valley sites of Moenjodaro and Harappa. Evidence of a new element of pre-Harappan culture has been traced here. The prehistoric site of Kot Diji in Sindh has furnished information of high significance for the reconstruction of a connected story which pushes back the history of Pakistan by at least another 300 years, from about 2,500 BC. The areas constituting Pakistan have had a historical individuality of their own and Sindh is the most important among such areas. The Indus valley civilization is the farthest visible outpost of archeology in the abyss of prehistoric times. There is an ancient saying "Just as Egypt is the gift of Nile, Sindh is the gift of the Indus".
The striking resemblance of Sindh to Egypt was noticed long before the existence in it of a comparable great prehistoric civilization was even suspected the idiosyncrasy of its people when compared with Indians, is very marked. Its length is about 2,880 kilometers and nearly a third of that (about 944 Kms) traverses the province. The classical name of the river was Sindhu (Sanskrit for an ocean) and Sindh province was created and sustained by the river, without which it would have been a desert. The Indus is by far the most important river of the province. Today, after the passage of fifty years the population of the province stands around 40 million souls, a half of whom now live in the urban centres like Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Tando Adam, Nawabshah, Larkana, Shikarpur, Khairpur, Badin and other smaller towns. At the time of the independence from the British occupation in August 1947, the population of Sindh was estimated at 5.5 million. Sindh is also proud of having acquired fame as Bab-ul-Islam (Gateway to Islam in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent).
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