Jungshahi

Jungshahi
Jungshahi
Town
	Jungshahi Location within Pakistan
	Coordinates: 24°51′26″N 67°46′21″E / 24.85722°N 67.77250°E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
District	Thatta
Website	http://vjungshahii.wordpress.com

Jungshahi, also spelled Jang Shahi, is a town located in Thatta District of Sindh province, Pakistan. Situated to the east of Karachi, it serves as a Union Council within the Thatta tehsil.^[1]^[2] Jungshahi is located 21 kilometres (13 mi) away of the district capital, Thatta. During British rule, the North Western Railway connected the town to Karachi.^[3]

In 1949, Major General Muhammed Iftikhar Khan, who was set to become the first native commander of the Pakistan Army following the retirement of Sir Douglas Gracey, died in an air crash near the city.^[4]

References

↑ Location of Jungshahi - Falling Rain Genomics
↑ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Thatta Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 254.
↑ Abbas, Hassan (2005). Pakistan's drift into extremism: Allah, the army, and America's war on terror. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765614971.

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[1] Location of Jungshahi - Falling Rain Genomics

[2] Tehsils & Unions in the District of Thatta Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 254.

[4] Abbas, Hassan (2005). Pakistan's drift into extremism: Allah, the army, and America's war on terror. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765614971.

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