Ismaili Cemetery adjacent to H-8 graveyard | Comparison of Graves in both Cemeteries | KhabrainTV
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Date: 2021-12-20

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The graveyard is spread over 50 acres. There are around 40,000 graves. It has a capacity to accommodate another 10,000 bodies. However, admissions on ‘open merit’ have been closed. Only the entries on kinship basis are welcome.

How can one reserve the space depends on the muscle of applicants. The influential ones contact directly the high-ups and the commoners negotiate with the graveyard staff, discussion with officials and applicants have found.

A retired FBR officer who reserved the space there, told The News that he wrote an application to CDA member for the allotment and was obliged. That his wife is buried in H-8 graveyard was the reason of applying for the reservation.

Saleem Sethi said he applied for the space because he was then proceeding to Washington to assume the post of Pakistan’s director in the IMF. “I thought life is uncertain. My sister and parents are already buried in H-8 graveyard. I, therefore, decided to get reservation for myself and the wife,” he told The News.

An official of municipal administration directorate that deals with the Islamabad’s graveyards though admits that Sethi had applied, he said the application was not approved. “Instead of one grave, he asked for two,” the officer said explaining the reason of refusal