Khairpur

Khairpur was a princely state of British India in today's Pakistani province of Sindh. The principality was founded in 1783 by Sohrab Khan ruling from a collateral line of the Talpur dynasty Are belutschistanischen that stood until 1813 under the suzerainty of Afghanistan. Khairpur 1838-1947 was a British protectorate. The emirate had in 1891 an area of ​​15,822 km ² and 128,600 inhabitants.

When the British in 1947 dismissed Pakistan 's independence, Khairpur was sovereign and joined Pakistan. On October 14, 1955, the emirate was dissolved. It first belonged to the Province of West Pakistan; In 1970, the area to the newly formed province of Are (written since 1990 Sindh ).