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Paposh Nagar Graveyard
Cemetery in Karachi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paposh Nagar Graveyard is one of the oldest graveyards located in Paposh Nagar, Karachi, Pakistan.[1]
In 2011, the cemetery drew attention as the site of a criminal case.[2]
In February 2017, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has banned burial in Paposh Nagar Graveyard due to lack of availability of space.[3][4] But despite the ban, people are illegally burying corpses.[5][6]
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Notable burials
- Ibn-e-Safi (1928–1980), fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu
- Mulla Wahidi (1888–1976), writer and journalist
- Ibn-e-Insha (1927–1978), writer
- Mohsin Bhopali (1932–2007), poet
- Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi (1922–2002), Islamic scholar
- Dr. Mohammad Ali Shah (1946–2013), orthopaedic surgeon
- Ghulam Farid Sabri (1945–2011), Qawwali singer
- Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (1930–1994), Qawwali singer
- Amjad Sabri (1976–2016), Qawwali singer
- Zaheen Tahira (1949–2019), film and television actress, producer and director
- B. M. Kutty (1930–2019), journalist, public servant, politician
- Quraish Pur (1932–2013), scholar, writer, novelist, columnist and media expert
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References
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