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Karoonjhar Mountains (Sindhi: ڪارونجھرُ جبل , Urdu: کارونجھر پہاڑیاں) are located in south-eastern edge of the Tharparkar district in Sindh, Pakistan. The range is approximately 19 kilometers long and reaches a height of 305 meters, and contains vaste deposits of granite and Chinese clay.
The Karoonjhar hills cover 16 miles in the south of Nagarparkar taluk. The granite stone of this mountain is used for making tiles. There is a saying that the Karoonjhar hills provide 1-1/4 kilos of gold every day in the form of red granite stone, china clay, and honey. In summer, different sounds are audible from the rock due to sulfur deposits.
Rooplo Kolhi was a freedom fighter, who fought for the rights of Sindhi people and Karoonjhar Mountains against the British Raj. Sindh Minister for Culture, Tourism & Antiquities, Syed Sardar Ali Shah passed a bill in Provincial Assembly of Sindh and initiated the resort establishment on the hero of the Sindhi people.
After six days stranded on a remote peak in Pakistan’s northeast, two injured Russian climbers were rescued, while another remains missing and is presumed dead, a mountaineering official said ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two Japanese climbers went missing on Saturday while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest mountain in northern Pakistan, officials said, the fourth such ...
Rooplo Shamtoji Kolhi [1] fought against the British Rulers in Karoonjhar Mountains at Nagarparkar of District Tharparkar, Sindh. His birth name was Rupaji Gohil. The British hanged him on 22 August 1858 with his companions. [2] His anniversary is celebrated on August 22 every year by a faction of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz. [3]
Sardharo Shiv temple (Urdu: سردھارو شیو مندر), also known as Sardharo Dham, is a Hindu temple situated in the Karoonjhar Mountains, in the Tharparkar district in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. [1] It is a complex comprising four Hindu temples, a samadhi and a pond. [2]
The Sindhi language has a long history of arts, literature, and culture. The first Sindhi newspaper was Sind Sudhar, founded in 1884. [1] Sindhi language newspapers played a vital role for Independence in 1947; In 1920, Al-Wahid newspaper published by Haji Abdullah Haroon in Karachi.