The Miani Sahib Graveyard (
Punjabi, ur, ) is the largest
graveyard
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
in the city of
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
, Pakistan. It is in the centre of Lahore.
[https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21727124-it-may-make-death-unequal-life-pakistan-inaugurates-luxury-graveyard Pakistan inaugurates a luxury graveyard] Its origins date back to the
Mughal era
The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...
, making it one of the oldest graveyards in the region.
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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.
The graveyard is currently facing an acute shortage of space for new burials. As of 2009, the government of
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
has started an anti-encroachment drive to restore the space occupied illegally. People of Lahore visit this graveyard to offer 'fateha' (a religious prayer) and lay flowers on the graves of their loved ones. In 2013, generally speaking, people of Lahore feel that the graveyard is being neglected for maintenance and needs some local government attention.
Gravediggers at the cemetery routinely bury the bodies of the newly deceased in plots that go unvisited.
Notable interments
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Dulla Bhatti
Dulla Bhatti (also known as Dullah Bhatti and Rai Abdullah Bhatti) is a Punjabi folk hero who supposedly came from the Punjab region and led a revolt against Mughal rule during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar. He is entirely absent f ...
(Rai Abdullah Bhatti)
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Ghazi Ilm-ud-din Shaheed
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Saghar Siddiqui
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Hakim Ahmad Shuja
Hakim Ahmad Shuja MBE (; sometimes written as 'Hakeem Ahmed Shujah' and 'Hakim Ahmad Shuja Pasha') (4 November 1893 – 4 January 1969), was a famous Urdu and Persian poet, playwright, writer, film writer and lyricist, scholar and mystic, ...
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Anwar Kamal Pasha
Anwar Kamal Pasha ( ur, ), (23 February 1925 – 13 October 1987) was the pioneer in the Pakistan film industry and an early Pakistani film director and producer from Lahore, Pakistan.
Life and career
Pasha was a graduate from the Forman ...
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Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
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Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed
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Saadat Hassan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto (; Punjabi, ur, , ; 11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana, who was active in British India and later, after the 1947 partition of India, in Pakistan.
Writing ma ...
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Agha Hashar Kashmiri
Agha Hashar Kashmiri (born Muhammad Shah, 3 April 1879 – 1 April 1935) was an Urdu poet, playwright and dramatist. A number of his plays were Indian Shakespearean adaptations.
Early life
He started to show interest in stage dramas and mo ...
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Wasif Ali Wasif
Wasif Ali Wasif (15 January 1929 – 18 January 1993) was a teacher, writer, poet and sufi from Pakistan.
Early life
Wasif was the son of Malik Muhammad Arif Abbasi and received his early education in Khushab before going to Jhang to study.
E ...
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Syed Wajid Ali
Syed Wajid Ali ( ur, سید واجد علی) (20 December 1911 – 14 June 2008) was a leading industrialist of Pakistan who is also known for his services to the Olympic Movement. He became the President of Pakistan Olympic Association in 197 ...
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Ihsan Danish
Ehsan Danish (, 2 February 1914 – 22 March 1982), born Ehsan-ul-Haq ), was an Urdu poet, prose writer, linguist, lexicographer and scholar from Pakistan. Ehsan Danish had penned down over 100 scholastic books on poetry, prose, linguistics, lex ...
* Sadef Naeem
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Muhammad Pervaiz Malik
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(Pakistani politician)
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Hazrat Tahir bandgi
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See also
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List of cemeteries in Pakistan
This is a list of cemeteries (or graveyards) in Pakistan.
Graveyards
Gilgit-Baltistan
* Old British Cemetery, Gilgit
Islamabad Capital Territory
* CDA Graveyard, Burma Town
* DHA II Graveyard, Jinnah Boulevard
* H-8 Graveyard
* Islamaba ...
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List of cemeteries in Karachi
In ( ur, قبرستان) is graveyard or cemetery. ''Qabar'' means ''grave.'' There are total 203 graveyards in Karachi. Of them, 184 are for Muslims and 19 for non-Muslims. 90 fall under the control of City District Government Karachi, while 10 ...
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List of cemeteries in Lahore
Following is an incomplete list of major cemeteries in Lahore, Pakistan.
* Gora Cemetery
* Miani Sahib Graveyard
* Mominpura Graveyard
* Taxali Gate Cemetery
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Lahore-related lists
Lahore
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References
External links
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Cemeteries in Lahore
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