Windar (also spelled Winder; , ) is the administrative capital of

Sonmiani Tehsil Sonmiani, also referred to as Windar, is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Hub District in the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. In 2023, the tehsil had a population of 67,991, more than half residing in urban areas, including its admin ...

Hub District Hub District ( Balochi, Lasi, ), is a coastal administrative district and located at southern part of Balochistan Province of Pakistan. The district was created after bifurcation of Lasbela District in 2022. It is located south of the Balochi ...

, located in

Balochistan, Pakistan Balochistan (; ; , ) is a province of Pakistan. Located in the southwestern region of the country, Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan by land area but is the least populated one. It is bordered by the Pakistani provinces of Khybe ...

. As of the most recent data, the town has a population of 35,245. It is after Hub the second largest town in the district. The

N-25 National Highway The N-25 or National Highway 25 () is a 813 km national highway in Pakistan is a single-landed highway which extends along from Karachi in Sindh province to Pakistan's Chaman border with Afghanistan via Quetta in Balochistan province of P ...

, the principal road link between

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

and the rest of Balochistan, passes directly through the town of Winder. The proposed 3-megawatt Winder Dam across the Winder River is located 25 kilometers from Winder. The majority of residents are Sindhi, primarily ( Lasi, Med,

Lohana Lohana are a Hindu ''jāti, caste'', a trading or mercantile community mostly residing in India and some also in Pakistan. The Lohanas are divided into many separate cultural groups as a result of centuries apart in different regions. Thus th ...

Khoja The Khoja are a caste of Muslims mainly members of the Nizari Ismaʿiliyyah sect of Islam with a minority of followers of Shia Islam originating the western Indian subcontinent, and converted to Islam from Hinduism by the 14th century by the Pe ...

) communities, while Baloch and Brahui make up smaller portions of the population.

Population

References

Hub District Populated places in Hub District {{Balochistan-geo-stub