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, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation banned burial in Paposh Nagar Graveyard due to a lack of availabile space. But despite the ban, people are illegally burying corpses.
Necrophilia case (2011)
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
Qasim Razwi (1902–1970), Sardar / General of Hyderabad State Razakars
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