Sukkur, a town on the right bank of the Indus, 28 miles by rail SE. of Shikarpur; it is connected by rail also with Karachi (Kurrachee), and is the terminus of the Bolan Pass Railway to Afghanistan. The river is crossed by a magnificent cantilever bridge (1889), or rather by two bridges (one with a span of 820 feet), resting upon 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, saltpetre, sugar, brass utensils, piece-goods, metals, wines and spirits. Pop. (1834)
4000; (1872) 13,318; (1895) 29,500. Old Sukkur, about a mile away, has a good many old tombs in its immediate vicinity.