“This shall be my home. I shall make a garden of this wilderness, live here and die here,” said Brigadier General John Jacob who landed in a little known hamlet called Khangarh and turned it into a modern city. The town came to be known as Jacobabad.

Excerpted with permission from From Upper Scinde Frontier to Jacobabad (HERITAGE) By Momin Bullo Pakistan Heritage Preservation and Promotion Society, Hyderabad 276pp. Price not listed

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