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Sukkur Barrage

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Sukkur Barrage (سکر بئراج, سکھر بیراج) is a barrage on the River Indus near the city of Sukkur in the Sindh province of Pakistan. [1]

30 relations: Arnold Musto, Balochistan, Barrage (dam), British Raj, Charlton Harrison, Cusec, Excellency, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Frontier Works Organization, George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, Ghotki, Government of Pakistan, Governor-General of India, Hyderabad, Indus River, Irrigation, List of barrages and headworks in Pakistan, List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan, List of governors of Bombay, Mirpur Khas, Nara Canal, Order of the Indian Empire, Pakistan, Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, Rohri, Sindh, South Asian river dolphin, Sukkur, Tharparkar, Tony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick.

Arnold Musto

Arnold Musto (1883–1977) was a British civil engineer who designed the Sukkur Barrage.

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Balochistan

Balōchistān (بلوچستان; also Balūchistān or Balūchestān, often interpreted as the Land of the Baloch) is an arid desert and mountainous region in south-western Asia.

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Barrage (dam)

A barrage is a type of low-head, diversion dam which consists of a number of large gates that can be opened or closed to control the amount of water passing through.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

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Charlton Harrison

Sir Charlton Scott Cholmeley Harrison, KCIE (18 May 1881 – 3 July 1951), was a British civil engineer who spent his career from 1902 until 1933 in British India.

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Cusec

Cusec is a measure of flow rate and is informal shorthand for "'''cu'''bic feet per '''sec'''ond" (28.317 litres per second).

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Excellency

Excellency is an honorific style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy.

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Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon

Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada, the 13th since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, the country's 22nd.

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Frontier Works Organization

The Frontier Works Organization (فرينٹير وركس اورگيناأزيشن; abbreviated as FWO), is a military engineering organization, and one of the major science and technology commands of the Pakistan Army.

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George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd

George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, (19 September 1879 – 4 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician strongly associated with the "Diehard" wing of the party.

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Ghotki

Ghotki (گھوٹکی), (گهوٽڪِي) is a town in northern Sindh, Pakistan.

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Government of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan (حکومتِ پاکستان) is a federal government established by the Constitution of Pakistan as a constituted governing authority of the four provinces of a proclaimed and established parliamentary democratic republic, constitutionally called the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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Hyderabad

Hyderabad is the capital of the Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.

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Indus River

The Indus River (also called the Sindhū) is one of the longest rivers in Asia.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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List of barrages and headworks in Pakistan

This is a list of barrage and Headworks in Pakistan.

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List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan

According to the International Commission on Large Dams, total dams and reservoirs in Pakistan over the height of are 150.

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List of governors of Bombay

Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea.

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Mirpur Khas

Mirpur Khas (Sindhi and; meaning "Town of the most-high Mirs") is the capital city of Mirpur Khas District in the province of Sindh in Pakistan and was the capital of an eponymous princely state.

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Nara Canal

The Nara Canal is an excavated waterway in Sindh province, Pakistan.

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Order of the Indian Empire

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers

The Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, (Urdu: ﺁرمى انجنيرينگ كور; Army Engineering Corps), is an active military administrative staff corps, and a major science and technology command of the Pakistan Army.

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Rohri

Rohri (Sindhi: روهڙي; روہڑی) is a town of Sukkur District, Sindh province, Pakistan.

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Sindh

Sindh (سنڌ; سِندھ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, in the southeast of the country.

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South Asian river dolphin

The South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is an endangered freshwater or river dolphin found in the Indian subcontinent which is split into two subspecies, the Ganges river dolphin (P. g. gangetica)(~3,500 individuals) and the Indus river dolphin (P. g. minor)(~1,500 individuals).

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Sukkur

Sukkur is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh along the western bank of the Indus River, directly across from the historic city of Rohri.

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Tharparkar

Tharparkar (تھرپارکر,ٿرپارڪر) is a desert in Pakistan.

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Tony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick

Anthony John Leslie Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick (called Tony; born 9 May 1929) is a retired British judge, and a former member of the House of Lords.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkur_Barrage

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