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Sukkur Barrage is a barrage on the River Indus near the city of Sukkur.

The barrage was built during the British Raj from 1923 to 1932 

was named Lloyd Barrage.

Located in Sindh Province

Construction started: 1923

Length: Approximately 2 km (1 mi)

Opened: 1932

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confusion about the oldest University of Pakistan

• Punjab University( founded in 1882) 

King Edward University (History)

• First established as Lahore Medical School was established in 1860
• Renamed King Edward Medical College in 1911
• Got university status in 2005

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Sindh is one of the world's oldest languages, written in right-handed Perso-Arabic script

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30 languages are spoken in Pakistan

while

Five languages have more than 10 million speakers each – 

Punjabi

 Pashto

Sindhi

Saraiki

Urdu.

while

The most widely spoken language in Pakistan is Punjabi (48 % speak), followed by the Punjabi variant Siraiki (10 percent),

2nd Sindhi 12%

Pashto 8%

Balochi 3%

Hindko 2%

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Attock fort was built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1581 to support his own wars in Afghanistan.

Mughal Emperor Akbar built the Lahore Fort, as well as the city walls which had 12 gates.

Campbellpur is the old name of Attock. 

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• The New Testament is the second half of the Christian Bible.
• Christians consider the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible/Jewish Scriptures)
• The New Testament is the sacred canon of Scripture.
• Hebrew Bible,  old testament, series of writings
• that become first compiled and preserved as the sacred books of the Jewish people.
• additionally known as Hebrew Scriptures,
• The old testament is 1st division of the Christian biblical canon,
• that is based totally often upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible
• Tanakh, a set of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites.

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• Anti-Slavery International is the world's oldest human rights organisation.
• Its roots stretch back to 1787 when the first abolitionist society was formed.
• The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) was officially created on 17 April 1839 to crusade against slavery and the slave trade throughout the world.
  

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Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian statesman who served as the prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and 2018 to 2020. 

At the age of 92 years 141 days in 2018, he becomes the Oldest Prime Minister having been born on 20 December 1925.