The Karachi Port Trust is a Pakistani federal government agency under the administrative control of the Federal Maritime Secretary that oversees the operations of the Port of Karachi, one of South Asia's largest and busiest deep-water seaports which handles about 60% of the nation's cargo.
Headquartered at the colonial-era Karachi Port Trust Building.
Kalhora rule of Sindh began in 1701 when Mian Yar Muhammad Kalhoro was invested with title of Khuda Yar Khan and was made governor of Upper Sindh sarkar by royal decree of the Mughals.
Sir Bartle Frere was chief commissioner of Sindh from 1850 to 1859. In 1849 the British produced an English-Sindhi dictionary in Devnagri. Majority of government servants were Hindus who favoured the Arabic script because they did not know Devnagri. A big debate started, Sir Bartle Frere, the then commissioner of Sindh, referred the matter to the British East India Company’s Court of Directors, who ruled in favour of the Arabic script on the ground that Muslim names could not be written in Devnagri. Thereafter, Sir Richard Burton, an Orientalist, with the help of local scholars MunshiThanwardas and Mirza Sadiq Ali Beg evolved a 52-letterSindhialphabet.
