KOTRI  , a

town of British India, in Karachi district, Sind, situated on the right bank of the Indus . Pop . (1901), 7617 . Kotri is the junction of branches of the North-Western railway, serving each bank of the Indus, which is here crossed by a railway bridge . It was formerly the station for Hyderabad, which lies across the Indus, and the headquarters of the Indus steam flotilla, now abolished in consequence of the development of railway facilities . Besides its importance as a railway centre, however, Kotri still has a considerable general transit trade by river .