Pakistan: Asia’s largest necropolis is losing sheen
Located in east of Karachi, Makli graveyard consists of over 20,000 tombs and graves of rulers, army generals and soldiers
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By Aamir Latif
MAKLI, Pakistan
A narrow, battered road leads to a hilly plain peppered with magnificently built funerary complexes, tombs, and graves in various sizes -- many fully or partially damaged, while others have started to crumble.
This is Makli, one of the world’s largest necropolises, located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi, and just 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) from the historic Thatta, the once capital of Sindh, which until 1840 had been an independent state, and for centuries, a land occupied by foreign invaders -- from Alexander the Great to Mughal emperors, and from Samma to Tarkhan and Arghun rulers.
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