Paposh Nagar Graveyard

Paposh Nagar Graveyard
پاپوش نگر قبرستان
Details
Abandoned	February 2017
Location	Paposh Nagar, Karachi
Country	Pakistan
Owned by	Karachi Metropolitan Corporation

Paposh Nagar Graveyard is one of the oldest graveyards located in Paposh Nagar, Karachi, Pakistan.

In 2011, the cemetery drew attention as the site of a criminal case.

In February 2017, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has banned burial in Paposh Nagar Graveyard due to lack of availability of space. But despite the ban, people are illegally burying corpses.

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