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Welcome to the website of the Antiquities Department, Government of Sindh. Archaeology and antiquities; where we can look at our past, our heritage, and the status of our greatest civilization.
My own heartbeats with the archeology and tourism of Sindh. In Antiquities, I initiated the task to promote the Archeological and Cultural Heritage within and outside the country by revitalizing the Directorate of Antiquities, which was dormant since its establishment. For the first time, a full-time Director-General assumed charge of this important organ, and the directorate showed their performance in holding of three-days International Conference on Mohen jo Daro, conservation at Makli as per UNESCO guidelines. The Umerkot fort which was neglected for a long and was in complete ruins has been brought back into its past grandeur after the restoration of its majestic walls. The Department in collaboration with the French Archeological Mission carried out Archeological excavations at Chahun jo Daro, a pre-historic site in Sakrand. The excavation at Lakhian jo Daro is in progress in collaboration with the Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, whereas a joint archeological venture at the Bhanbhore site has been formalized with the Italian archeological mission. Restoration work at Kotdiji fort and at Ranikot fort is set to be started in the coming days.
Besides all the above concrete tasks, it was very much necessary to bring all information regarding activities and comprehensive data of our archaeological sites to all of you, no matter where you live, on which time you can spare for us; our responsive website will say you welcome and present you all information that you need. I am hoping that you will enjoy our website and wonder to see our glorious history.
Syed Sardar Ali Shah
Minister for
Culture, Tourism & Antiquities – govt. of Sindh
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Director General Antiquities, Sindh
Manzoor Ahmed Kanasro (Director General)
Manzoor Ahmed Kansro is currently Director General of Antiquities & Archaeology Department, under the umbrella of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Department, Government of Sindh. He is also the author and compiler of several books published by the Culture Department and other publishers. He was born in the Larkana district on 1st May 1964. He is serving as the dedicated archaeologist and antiquities curator. Under his leadership, more than 129 archaeological and heritage sites of Sindh are preserved and protected as per international standards. International seminars on Mohen Jo Daro and Makli Necropolis, in which internationally recognized scholars arrived and presented their scholarly research papers, were landmarks on his credit.
Academic & Professional Career:
He had done Masters’s in Economics from Shah Abdul Latif University. He started his career in the Government of Sindh with his merit. He had worked in different departments in management positions, where he performed well-dedicated service. Earlier of DG Antiquities and Archaeology, he served as General Manager in Pakistan State Cement, Government of Pakistan, Managing Director in S.I.T.E, Government of Sindh, Chief Administrator in AUQAF & Religious Affairs, Government of Sindh, Managing Director in Sindh Tourism & Development Corporation, Government of Sindh and Director General in Culture Department, Government of Sindh.
Literary Career:
He wrote more than 300 research articles, published in various newspapers, magazines & Journals in Pakistan and abroad and books on culture and social life: Some of his books are given below:
- Bhitai Jo Saqafati Wirso {Sindhi: ڀٽائيءَ جو ثقافتي ورثو}
- Bhitai Jo Aadarshi Insaan {Sindhi: ڀٽائيءَ جو آدرشي انسان}
- Shah and Ishq {Sindhi: ڀٽائي ۽ عشق}
- Shah Latif Ji Shahiri Main Himat and Justajo {Sindhi: شاھ لطيف جي شاعريءَ ۾ ھمٿ ۽ جستجو}
- Sur Kohyari {Sindhi: سُر ڪوھياري}
- Sur Kedaro {Sindhi: سُر ڪيڏارو}
- Sehwan Ji Sarkar {Sindhi: سيوھڻ جي سرڪار}
- Sukh na Suta Kadaheen {Sindhi: سُک نہ ستا ڪڏھن ڪڏھين}
- Korin Kayaon Tounhenjion {Sindhi: }
- Munm Usman Marwandi {Sindhi: من عثمان مروندي}
- Qalandar Shahbaz Hik Mutalio {Sindhi: قلندر شھباز ھڪ مطالعو}
- Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar R.A (761 Urs Mubarak-te-Perheyal Makala and Shairi) {Sindhi: حضرت لعل شھباز قلندر رح}
- Gulzar Qalandar {Sindhi: گلزار قلندر}
- Shah Latif Hayat-o-Afkaar {Urdu: شاہ لطیف حیات و افکار}
- Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (Mazameen o Maqalajat) {Urdu: شاہ عبدالطیف بھٹائی مضامین و مقالاجات}
- Legacy of Shah Latif (Translated by Anwar Pirzado) {English}
- The Message of Struggle in Latif’s Poetry {English}
International Conferences:
He has participated in various conferences/Seminars/ Cultural Delegates held in Australia, London UK, China, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic.
Training:
Mr. Manzoor Ahmed Kanasro has conducted a High-Level Training Course on World Heritage under the Framework of Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) from the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage Under the auspices of UNESCO (HIST).
Amar Fayaz Buriro (Consultant)
Amar Fayaz Buriro is a Language Engineer, Linguist & Consultant Director in the Department of Culture, Tourism & Antiquities, Government of Sindh. Previously he has worked as IT Specialist in Sindhi Language Authority where he looked after the Sindhi Computing and development of Sindhi Codex for advanced computing in language engineering, this will preserve our historical languages in advanced systems.
Besides this Amar is local guide of Google Inc. for Sindh Cultural heritage and tourism promotion in geo-tagging, making 360 Virtual Reality Tours and dissemination of information focused on cultural sites.
Earlier he was Head of Department Information Technology in Newports Institute of Communication & Economics a corporate university of Karachi, IT Consultant in Geo TV network, and CEO/Owner of spread Multiplication, a firm providing web development services using latest cutting edge web-related technology and tools. He has endeavored to bring this latest technology to the service of major Pakistani languages such as Urdu & Sindhi. He realized that these languages of our country faced formidable challenges due to non-compatibility with browsers designed especially for the handheld devices such as tablets and cellphones. One of the major issues so far as Urdu was concerned was the use of the traditionally preferred Nastaleeq style on the web. Finally, he was able to create the first Web-based Nastaleeq font “Amar Nastaleeq”, which is a lightweight font that allows robust and reliable conversion to various embeddable formats for use across major OS’s, browsers, and devices. Meanwhile, he also worked at localizing the world’s leading CMS Joomla for Urdu and Sindhi. Today he is the webmaster of more than 85 multilingual websites which use advanced PHP programming. He also found that the majority of the programmers and web developers in our country use nulled versions, cracked software, and pirated scripts. This unfortunately is the major cause why most of the websites get hacked and the database management has security issues. Deviating from this practice, he chose to use neat and clean programming and licensed scripts.
Prior to setting up spread, he was associated with National Rural Support Program (NRSP) first as District Manager and later as Project Manager in Education Project assigned by Union Council Based Poverty Reduction Program. The project is considered to be one of the most acclaimed and widely mobilizing models of UCBPRP initiatives of community-based girls’ literacy and volunteers’ engagement for the furtherance of female education.
He is the compiler of Pakistan’s biggest English to English to Sindhi Dictionary at the time in 1997, which has introduced him as a language expert. His literary work on cultural, social, and philosophical is recognized even from BBC Urdu, where he had written more than 150 blogs and articles on socio-political issues. He is liberal and always trying to spreading peace, love, and harmony within all races and nations on this planet.
Being a creative idealist and ideologist, he has always welcomed challenges, built up his reputation as a troubleshooter, and aimed for excellence.
Recognition & Awards:
Latif Award 2017 | SGA Gold Medal 2017 | Google’s Master Trailblazer | Google’s Master Fact Finder | Google’s Master Photographer | Google’s Master Reviewer | Google’s Street View Professional |
- EDUCATION Masters in Sociology
Shah Abdul Lateef University, Khairpur Mir’s, Sindh, Pakistan
Diploma of Associate Engineer Mechanical Technology
Govt. College of Technology, Khairpur Mir’s, Sindh, Pakistan
- EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
More than 25 years of experience relating to administration, management, documentation, communication, publications, and marketing. This included 5 years of Advanced Automata Programming (Web Development & e-Marketing) experience.
III. POSITIONS HELD
EMPLOYER Sindhi Language Authority
POSITION Information Technology Specialist
DURATION December 2014-to date
CONTRIBUTION
- Developed first Sindhi Optical Character Recognizer (OCR).
- Developed 12 Android based Apps of English & Sindhi languages along with localization.
- Developed and guided South Asia’s largest dictionary online.
- Developed Sindh’s first Cloud based hosting of SLA.
- Developed virtual library, kids portal, and many more apps and portals for Sindhi language
- Developed Online Auto Parsing System of Sindhi Language.
EMPLOYER Newports Institute of Communications & Economics
POSITION Head of Department (IT)
DURATION July 2012-to December 2014
CONTRIBUTION
- For the first time in Pakistan, AJAX programming was added to the higher education commission.
- The course of IT in HEC is reviewed and added three topics.
EMPLOYER spread Multiplication
POSITION CEO/Owner
DURATION August 2008-to 2013
CONTRIBUTION
- Embedded 5 Urdu & 8 Sindhi Fonts on www browsers
- Built and launched the first Urdu “Amar Nastaleeq” web-based font
- Translated complete Joomla backend management in Sindhi
- Launched 1st Responsive website in the Sindhi Language with 100% Ajax technology.
- Programmed first Tri-lingual website in ANSI & UTF-8 parallel
- Built more than 25 database-driven websites in English, Urdu & Sindhi languages.
- Brought the Sindhi Language to modern Touch Browsers for the first time in the worldwide web.
- Handled huge database sites relating to finance, business and news
- Worked on Elance® and got a 5.0 rating, i.e. 100%, for the quality of his work
- Made an online donation site along with donors area and email
notifications to both receiver and sender - Advance ACL management for administrators, editors, and publishers
- Complete management of site along with server, database, and security
EMPLOYER National Rural Support Program (NRSP)
POSITION Project Manager (Education)
DURATION June 2005-to June 2008
CONTRIBUTION Data management of target project schools
Documentation of project workshops, seminars, and conferences
Documentation of project quarterly reports
Liaison and coordination with stakeholders
REASON FOR LEAVING Completion of contract
EMPLOYER Pakistan Railways
POSITION Associate Engineer (G2) (Computerized Track Maintenance)
DURATION Aug – 1990 to March – 2003
CONTRIBUTION
- Surveyed & maintained Mechanized Railway Track QTA-Chaman line
- Managed & organized more than 1600 employees.
REASON FOR LEAVING Working environment congenial to his temperament and principles
IV: EXTRA ACCOMPLISHMENTS & Skills:
- Compiled Pakistan’s No.1 English to English to Sindhi Dictionary in 1998 published by Oriental Book Society Lahore.
- Written some short stories and poetry and was awarded the Best Short Story Writer of 1999 by Sindhi Adabi Sangat.
- Blogging and article writing on socio-political affairs published in Aalmi Akhbar, Sindh Affairs, Indus Asia Online Canada, etc
- Good debater and having an analytical approach regarding case studies, situation analysis, research work, and project management.
- INSPIRATION Mr. Abdul Majid Bhurgri (Founder MB Sindhi Computing)
Seattle Washington, USA
Email: majidbhurgri@gmail.com
Phone: +1-206-245-4188