Karachi: In the big city of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, the grave fill and die run out of space to rest.
But for the right price to the right person, a plot can be “found” for the body of a person loved by the shady crew that destroys old graves to provide space for new ones.
In coastal megacity – crush on 20 million people – Pakistani Cooperative Housing Society (Pechs) employees have been officially full for five years.
Necropolis is choc-full. Large and small tombs are placed like Tetris into every corner – some are pitted far on the ground, others up high above the trenches.
However, the new tomb appeared all the time, established in a grave that was destroyed or filled by a man charged an outsized fee.
AFP witnessed a hacking team on the rock and secretly carried a basket of dirt until they carved up a fresh hole on the narrow earth.
“There is no room throughout Karachi – no grave has a room for fresh burial,” said Digger Khalil Ahmed.
“We have to destroy old graves if we want to make a new one.”
The cost of the government’s burial in this district was 7,900 rupees ($ 44) but two locals reported paying 55,000 and 175,000 to put loved ones to rest in Pech’s cemetery last year.
Ahmed said the cost was split between 40 men and adolescents who, when they did not work, spending their time moving in a nap in the shade.
Gravedigger Mafia
Ahmed and his colleagues are part of what politicians and media call “Gravedigger Mafia” – the terms that are usually flamboyant in the language of Pakistan’s social affairs.
Officers opposed “Mafia Milk” watering their belongings, “Sugar Mafia” pushed prices and “Mafia land” drowsy.
But Freelance Gravedigger received profit on the dynamics of the Pakistani population that changed.
Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world with 220 million citizens and more than four million are added every year.
When the population grows, as well as the migration of people from the countryside to cities, looking for work to escape rural poverty.
Muhammad Aslam has watched Gravedigger Mafia develop when the Karachi boom population.
