KARACHI, May 4: The Sindh Ombudsman secretariat is going to prepare recommendations to check the menace of rampant malpractice in the management of public graveyards in urban areas of the province in general, and in Karachi, in particular.

The recommendations will be prepared in the light of views of the participants, at a seminar to be held on May 24, which will be presided over by Justice Taqi Osmani, a retired judge of the Federal Shariat Court, while City Nazim Naimatullah Khan, Makhdoom Dr Rafiquzzaman, and the town nazims of Sukkur, Hyderabad, and Karachi, in addition to Chairman of the Islamic Ideology Council, Islamabad, Mohammad Zaman, and Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi, are expected to speak on the issue.

The concerned section of the public has been agitating for the last few years over the deplorable conditions and rampant corruption in affairs of graveyards in Karachi, Hyderabad and else where, where allegedly some unscrupulous elements have taken over the control of the graveyards and are extorting money from the people.