Sind province will now be called Sindh after change in spelling. The provincial assembly adopted a new bill Sindh Laws Amendment Bill 2012. This bills calls for a change in the spelling of province name. Now ‘H’ has been added and Sind is now Sindh.
The bill was presented by opposition lawmaker Arif Mustafa Jatoi of National Peoples Party (NPP). This is the first private bill which is unanimously approved by the Sindh Assembly in the last five years. Arif Mustafa Jatoi said that after the 1973 constitution spelling of Sindh was different but now after 18th amendment spelling of three provinces have changed. Sind is now Sindh; Baluchistan is now Balochistan and the NWFP is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Sindh original name was ‘Sindhu’. River Indus original name was River Sindhu. The Greeks changed the name of the River Sindhu to the River Indos in 125 BC.