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Mewa Shah ( ur, ) was a Sufi and He was buried in Mewa Shah Graveyard in
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. In the 19th century Sufi Mewa Shah struggled against the British colonial rule in
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. He was jailed and eventually exiled by the British. According to legend, Mewa Shah boarded the ship taking him into exile, said his prayers on the waves of the
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and mounted a large fish, which took him back to the shores of Karachi.Pakistan's mystical Islam thrives.
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{{Reflist Sufis of Sindh Sindhi people History of Sindh People from Karachi People from British India Burials at Mewa Shah Graveyard