The Endowment Fund Trust is launching three important books on the history of Sindh at Mohatta Palace Museum here on Friday. The books include an original work on the art and architecture of Sindh, an important addition to literature on the vanishing history of the architecture of Sindh by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, research anthropologist at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economies (PIDE), Islamabad.
Two important reprints on the history of Sindh will also be launched on the occasion. The Tarikh-e-Masumi (Persian) written by Mir Masum Shah of Bakhar, the oldest manuscript after Chachnama, relating to the period of the Arghuns and Tarkhans in Sindh, edited by Dr Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota in 1938 and its English translation, The Arghuns and Tarkhans by Dr Mehmood ul Hasan Siddiqui. Pakistan's first Minister for Culture and legal luminary Dr (Hon) Abdul Hafeez Pirzada will preside over the ceremony.