Heritage record
Lakho Shaikh (Baloch Graveyard)
SindhTombProtected
The graveyard is spread over an extensive area and contains tombs of certain warriors and other notables who had settled in this area somewhere during 16th and 17th centuries. Similar tombs are also found at other places all around Karachi, Lasbela and southern Baluchistan.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 6011
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Karachi
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992) (instrument: Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992))
- Coordinates
- 24.94657, 67.25036 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Jansen, Michael, Yasmeen Lari. (2015). Inventory of Cultural Property in the Province of Sindh, Pakistan, 2015. Government of Sindh, Vol 2.
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