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. The Mewa Shah Qabaristan (Cemetery), one of the largest and oldest graveyards of Karachi. It is named after the 19th Century Sufi, Mewa Shah, was a Sufi and struggled against the British colonial rule in
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. He was jailed and eventually exiled by the British. According to the legend, Mewa Shah alighted the ship taking him into exile, said his prayers on the waves of the
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and mounted a large fish which took him back to the shores of Karachi.Pakistan's mystical Islam thrives
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Notable Figures

Kadu Makrani Qadir Baksh Rind Baloch (1811 — November 1887) (famously known as Kadu Makrani) was a 19th-century Indian revolutionary who operated mainly in Kathiawar region of Gujarat but was born and raised in Makran. He is famously known for opposing and ...
was executed by hanging in the Karachi Central Jail in November 1887. He was buried in Mewah Shah Graveyard. Qadir Baksh Rind Baloch (famously known as Kadu Makrani) was a 19th-century insurgent who operated mainly in Kathiawar, Gujarat and was born and raised in Makran. He is famously known for opposing and resisting British rule and rule by the elite class of Gujarat in favor of the rights of the poor lower class. He was one of the greatest freedom fighters of the British Raj. Artist and the then Globally known "King of Water Colours", A.B Nazir aka Ahmed Buksh Nazir (1931–1961), is buried in this graveyard. This graveyard is named after mewa shah because he had a park of mewa (dry fruits) which can be only be eaten in his park because if someone will take that mewa outside it will rot or will be rotten.


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