Grave Injustice: Not Even The Dead Rest Easy In Karachi

In Karachi, a grave plot can be "found" for the right price to the right person, by shady crews who demolish old graves to make room for the new.

In the teeming metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, graveyards are filling up and the dead are running out of space to rest.

But for the right price to the right person, a plot can be "found" for the body of a loved one by shady crews who demolish old graves to make room for the new.

In the coastal megacity -- a crush of 20 million people -- the Pakistan Employees Cooperative Housing Society (PECHS) cemetery has been officially full for five years.

The necropolis is choc-full. Tombs big and small are slotted like Tetris into every nook -- some pitted deep in the ground, others raised high on petal-strewn plinths.