Sukkur
a town on the right bank of the Indus, 28 miles S. E. of Shikarpur; pur; it is connected by rail also with (Kurrachee), and is the terminus of the Bolan Pass railway to Afghanistan magnificent cantilever bridge (1889), or rather by two bridges (one with a span of 820 feet), resting on the fortified island of Bukkur in the middle of the channel. New Sukkur, which grew up after the British occupied (1839) the fort on Bukkur, has considerable trade in silk, cloth, cotton, wool, opium, saltpeter, sugar, brass utensils, piece goods,