Rohri Taluka

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تحصِيل روہڑی
Taluka Rohri

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A historic image of Rohri - Sukkur
Coordinates: 28°8′N69°29′E / 28.133°N 69.483°E / 28.133; 69.483
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Province Sindh
District Sukkur District
Government
  Type Taluka Municipal Administration
  Assistant Commissioner Hasan Abid
Time zone PST (UTC+5)
Number of Union Councils 11

Rohri Taluka (Urdu : تحصِيل روہڑی), is an administrative subdivision (taluka) of Sukkur District in the Sindh province of Pakistan, the town of Rohri is the capital. [1]

A tehsil is an administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is an area of land with a city or town that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier geographical terms, such as pargana, pergunnah and thannah, used under Delhi Sultanate and the British Raj.

Sukkur District District in Sindh, Pakistan

Sukkur district, , is a district in Sindh Province in Pakistan. It is divided into 5 administrative strata (tehsils), namely; Sukkur City, New Sukur, Rohri, Saleh Pat and Pano Aqil. Among them Sukkur city and new Sukkur are urban centre while Pano Aqil is famous for having one of largest military cantonment of the country. Rohri is the smallest tehsil of the Sukkur district, both in area and population but it has an important railway junction. Two districts have been split off from the territory of Sukkur: Shikarpur in 1977 and Ghotki in 1993.

Sindh Province in Pakistan

Sindh is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, in the southeast of the country. Historically home to the Sindhi people, it is also locally known as Mehran. Sindh is the third largest province of Pakistan by area, and second largest province by population after Punjab. Sindh is bordered by Balochistan province to the west, and Punjab province to the north. Sindh also borders the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to the east, and Arabian Sea to the south. Sindh's landscape consists mostly of alluvial plains flanking the Indus River, the Thar desert in the eastern portion of the province closest to the border with India, and the Kirthar Mountains in the western part of Sindh.

Administration

Assistant Commissioner of Taluka Rohri is Mr. Awais Mushtaq Khokhar(PAS-42nd CTP). Rohri Taluka is administratively subdivided into 11 Union Councils. [1]

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