The Indus is closely related to the history of India and gave
its name to the country. Indus River flows 1,114 km in India. It
flows from the Himalayas approximately southwest to the Arabian
Sea Indus Valley Civilization , one of the oldest urban
civilizations in the world, flourished here. The ultimate source
of the Indus is actually in Tibet; it begins at the confluence
of the Sengge River and Gar River that drain the Nganglong
Kangri and Gangdise Shan ranges. The Indus then flows northwest
through Jammu and Kashmir, just south of the Karakoram range,
then gradually bends to the south, coming out of the hills
between Peshawar and Rawalpindi. It is dammed in this area also,
forming the Tarbela Reservoir. The remainder of its route to the
sea is in plains of the Punjab and Sind, and the river becomes
slow-flowing highly braided. Passing by Hyderabad, it ends in a
large delta to the southeast of Karachi that has now been
recognised by conservationists as one of the world's most
important ecological regions. Th