Tharparkar District

Tharparkar District, is one of the twenty nine districts of Sindh province in Pakistan. It is headquartered at Mithi. It has the lowest Human Development Index of all the districts in Sindh.ReligionAccording to the 1998 census, Muslims constituted 59.42% of the population and the Hindus 23.78% of the district's population.At the time of the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Hindus were 80% while the Muslims were 20% of the population. In the years 1965 and 1971, population exchanges took place in the Thar between India and Pakistan. Thousands of Hindus (particularly the upper castes and their retainers) migrated from Pakistani Thar to the Indian section of the Thar. 3,500 Muslim families also shifted from the Indian section of the Thar to Pakistani Thar. The Muslim families were given 12 acres of land each (a total of 42,000 acres).AdministrationThe district is divided into 7 Talukas (tehsils): Mithi Diplo Amarkot Chachro Dahli Nagarparkar Kaloi