Miani Sahib Graveyard

The Miani Sahib Graveyard (Punjabi, Urdu: میانی صاحب قبرستان) is the largest graveyard in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.^[1] It is in the centre of Lahore.^[2] Its origins date back to the Mughal era, making it one of the oldest graveyards in the region.

Grave of Khawaja Khursheed Anwar

Grave of Shorish Kashmiri

Miani Sahib Graveyard occupies around 1,206 Kanal (60 hectares, 149 acres) of land and has a capacity of approximately 300,000 graves. It is administered by the Miani Sahib Graveyard Committee (MSGC), which was formed on 31 May 1962.^[3]

Gravediggers at the cemetery routinely bury the bodies of the newly deceased in plots that go unvisited.^[2]

Notable interments

• Dulla Bhatti (Rai Abdullah Bhatti)^[4]
• Ilm-ud-din
• Saghar Siddiqui
• Hakim Ahmad Shuja
• Anwar Kamal Pasha
• Shaukat Thanvi
• Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
• Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed
• Saadat Hassan Manto
• Agha Hashar Kashmiri
• Wasif Ali Wasif
• Syed Wajid Ali
• Ihsan Danish
• Muhammad Pervaiz Malik
• Dawood Ghaznavi
• Pervaiz Waheed Sheikh

See also

• List of cemeteries in Pakistan
• List of cemeteries in Karachi
• List of cemeteries in Lahore