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Untitled, Imran Qureshi, circa 2010s-2020s
Acrylic and gold leaf on paper
29 ¼ x 21 ½ in. (74.3 x 54.6 cm)
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Imran Qureshi (Pakistani, b. 1972), Bleed II, 2010. Gouache on paper, 18 x 14 in.
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Imran Qureshi, Where the Shadows are so Deep, 2015. Opaque watercolor, shell gold, and gold leaf, over traces of graphite, on paperboard.
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Imran Qureshi, Moderate Enlightenment, 2007, Gouache on wasli paper, 7 x 9.5 in
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Pakistan: Former Foreign Minister Qureshi, close to Imran Khan, in custody for 15 days
Islamabad. Before the general elections in Pakistan, Imran Khan’s close aide and former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was sent to Adiala jail for 15 days custody on Tuesday. Went. A day before this, the Supreme Court had granted him bail in another case.
According to a report, Rawalpindi Deputy Commissioner issued the directive saying that the release of Qureshi, vice president of Imran…
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Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi's Legal Battle
#imran khan#Official Secrets Act#Shah Mahmood Qureshi#Cipher Case#Legal Proceedings#Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)#Islamabad High Court (IHC)#Bail Application#Witness Statements#Legal Challenges#Rule of Law#Pakistan Politics#Fair Trial
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if you are going to go out campaigning for the Labour Party at the next General Election, for the love of God please do not campaign for the MPs who abstained on the ceasefire vote or voted against a ceasefire. I understand the general feeling of helplessness and the desire to see a non-Tory government but heartless centrists who think Palestinians deserve death at the hands of Israel/are willing to allow that for the sake of their career do not deserve your activism, do not deserve your time, will barely make this country better. please please focus your efforts on MPs (and candidates) like Zarah Sultana, Imran Hussain, John McDonnell, Yasmin Qureshi etc who are openly opposed to genocide
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Imran Khan Warns That Pakistan’s Election Could Be A Farce
His Party is Being Unfairly Muzzled, the Former Prime Minister Writes From Prison
— January 4th, 2024 | The Economist
Imran Khan, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Image: Dan Williams
Today pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These administrations are constitutionally illegal because elections were not held within 90 days of parliamentary assemblies being dissolved.
The public is hearing that elections will supposedly be held on February 8th. But having been denied the same in two provinces, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, over the past year—despite a Supreme Court order last March that those votes should be held within three months—they are right to be sceptical about whether the national vote will take place.
The country’s election commission has been tainted by its bizarre actions. Not only has it defied the top court but it has also rejected my Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (pti) party’s nominations for first-choice candidates, hindered the party’s internal elections and launched contempt cases against me and other pti leaders for simply criticising the commission.
Whether elections happen or not, the manner in which I and my party have been targeted since a farcical vote of no confidence in April 2022 has made one thing clear: the establishment—the army, security agencies and the civil bureaucracy—is not prepared to provide any playing field at all, let alone a level one, for pti.
It was, after all, the establishment that engineered our removal from government under pressure from America, which was becoming agitated with my push for an independent foreign policy and my refusal to provide bases for its armed forces. I was categorical that we would be a friend to all but would not be anyone’s proxy for wars. I did not come to this view lightly. It was shaped by the huge losses Pakistan had incurred collaborating with America’s “war on terror”, not least the 80,000 Pakistani lives lost.
In March 2022 an official from America’s State Department met Pakistan’s then ambassador in Washington, dc. After that meeting the ambassador sent a cipher message to my government. I later saw the message, via the then foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and it was subsequently read out in cabinet.
In view of what the cipher message said, I believe that the American official’s message was to the effect of: pull the plug on Imran Khan’s prime ministership through a vote of no confidence, or else. Within weeks our government was toppled and I discovered that Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, had, through the security agencies, been working on our allies and parliamentary backbenchers for several months to move against us.
People flocked onto the streets to protest against this regime change, and in the next few months pti won 28 out of 37 by-elections and held massive rallies across the country, sending a clear message as to where the public stood. These rallies attracted a level of female participation that we believe was unprecedented in Pakistan’s history. This unnerved the powers that had engineered our government’s removal.
To add to their panic, the administration that replaced us destroyed the economy, bringing about unprecedented inflation and a currency devaluation within 18 months. The contrast was clear for everyone to see: the pti government had not only saved Pakistan from bankruptcy but also won international praise for its handling of the covid-19 pandemic. In addition, despite a spike in commodity prices, we steered the economy to real gdp growth of 5.8% in 2021 and 6.1% in 2022.
Unfortunately, the establishment had decided I could not be allowed to return to power, so all means of removing me from the political landscape were used. There were two assassination attempts on my life. My party’s leaders, workers and social-media activists, along with supportive journalists, were abducted, incarcerated, tortured and pressured to leave pti. Many of them remain locked up, with new charges being thrown at them every time the courts give them bail or set them free. Worse, the current government has gone out of its way to terrorise and intimidate pti’s female leaders and workers in an effort to discourage women from participating in politics.
I face almost 200 legal cases and have been denied a normal trial in an open court. A false-flag operation on May 9th 2023—involving, among other things, arson at military installations falsely blamed on pti—led to several thousand arrests, abductions and criminal charges within 48 hours. The speed showed it was pre-planned.
This was followed by many of our leaders being tortured or their families threatened into giving press conferences and engineered television interviews to state that they were leaving the party. Some were compelled to join other, newly created political parties. Others were made to give false testimony against me under duress.
Despite all this, pti remains popular, with 66% support in a Pattan-Coalition 38 poll held in December; my personal approval rating is even higher. Now the election commission, desperate to deny the party the right to contest elections, is indulging in all manner of unlawful tricks. The courts seem to be losing credibility daily.
Meanwhile, a former prime minister with a conviction for corruption, Nawaz Sharif, has returned from Britain, where he was living as an absconder from Pakistani justice. In November a Pakistani court overturned the conviction (Under United States’ Scrotums Licker Corrupt Army Generals’ Directions).
It is my belief that Corrupt to his Core Mr Sharif has struck a deal with the establishment whereby it will support his acquittal and throw its weight behind him in the upcoming elections. But so far the public has been unrelenting in its support for pti and its rejection of the “selected”.
It is under these circumstances that elections may be held on February 8th. All parties are being allowed to campaign freely except for pti. I remain incarcerated, in solitary confinement, on absurd charges that include treason. Those few of our party’s leaders who remain free and not underground are not allowed to hold even local worker conventions. Where pti workers manage to gather together they face brutal police action.
In this scenario, even if elections were held they would be a disaster and a farce, since pti is being denied its basic right to campaign. Such a joke of an election would only lead to further political instability. This, in turn, would further aggravate an already volatile economy.
The only viable way forward for Pakistan is fair and free elections, which would bring back political stability and rule of law, as well as ushering in desperately needed reforms by a democratic government with a popular mandate. There is no other way for Pakistan to disentangle itself from the crises confronting it. Unfortunately, with democracy under siege, we are heading in the opposite direction on all these fronts. ■
— Imran Khan is the Founder and Former Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and was Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022.
— Editor’s Note: Pakistan’s government and America’s State Department deny Mr Khan’s allegations of American interference in Pakistani politics (Bullshit! Hegemonic War Criminal Conspirator United States and Corrupt Army Generals and Politicians of Pakistan Were Clearly Involved. It’s Social Media’s Modern Era, Not 1970). The government is prosecuting him under the Official Secrets Act.
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Imran Qureshi, Where the Shadows are so Deep, 2015. Opaque watercolor and gold leaf, over traces of graphite, on paperboard.
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Imran Qureshi, Pakistani, b. 1972
Born in Hyderabad, Qureshi lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. He studied miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where he now teaches the discipline. Considered one of Pakistan's most important artists, he has received international recognition for his site-specific installations that respond to architectural space, referencing the historical or political significance of the buildings that contain them.
These include Blessings Upon the Land of My Love, created in 2011 for the Sharjah Biennial, and They Shimmer Still, created for the Biennale of Sydney in 2012. In 2013, he created a large-scale, site-specific work for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden Commission in New York. The same year he was awarded the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year and received his first solo exhibition in Europe at the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle in Berlin.
https://ropac.net/artists/71-imran-qureshi/
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Some pictures from the Sutr Santati exhibition in New Delhi, a textile exhibition that brings together various diverse weaving methods and fabrics if the country.
Top to bottom:
Hanging by a Thread by Lakshmi Madhavan: Fine cotton with zari fabric by Aravind Vijayan and family; Kerala - The words "anybody", "nobody", "somebody", "everybody" is woven into the fabric and morphs binaries between caste, class, gender.
The Moon Birds by Bappaditya Biswas: Cotton; West Bengal - Artist's involvement in reviving Jamdani weaving
Antarman by Sukanya Garg: Habotai silk , Gujarat - Using visuals of cellular biology to create iterations of the crescent moon (symbol of the flow of time), the textile symbolises the journey towards the timeless self, finding out own inner voice and self realization.
Tota Maina ki Kahani, Himroo ki Zubani by Ahmed Saeed Qureshi, Imran Ahmed Qureshi, Shaikh Yaseen: Cotton, Silk; Maharashtra - Based on the folklore of the love of the parrot and the mynah, the artist asks where will the birds perch now to chirp away and express their love? He feels it is no longer possible with the number of trees being cut down.
Curated by Lavina Baldota
#Sutr Santati#textiles#exhibition#textile exhibition#India#Indian fabrics#Fabrics#Art#Weaving#Indian fashion#Couture#My photography
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With the compliments of, Directorate General Public Relations,
Government of the Punjab, 99201390.
No.1236/DN/Umer
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PHA ANNOUNCES SCULPTURE GARDEN AT NASSER BAGH
LAHORE, May 05:
The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Lahore has initiated work to open a pioneering public sculpture garden at provincial capital’s historic Nasser Bagh, a spokesperson announced on Sunday.
The sculpture park, the spokesperson explained, will comprise an outdoor garden featuring sculptures and numerous permanently situated works crafted from durable materials within landscaped surroundings.
Expected to be operational by early next month, the proposed facility will operate in conjunction with The Barracks, a new art gallery developed by the PHA and inaugurated by Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman at the iconic site in February.
Initially, the department has commissioned renowned artists such as Imran Qureshi, Risham Hosain Syed, Saeed Akhtar, Talat Dabir, Shahid Sajjad, Rasheed Araeen, Rashid Rana, Tahir Mahmood, and Meherunnisa Asad for the project.
The sculptures will be crafted from clay, grass, concrete and other eco-friendly material to preserve the sanctity of Nasser Bagh, the spokesperson said.
According to the spokesperson, these artworks will be a permanent addition to The Barracks art gallery, serving as "a gift from the artists and friends of Lahore to the city."
"The concept of a sculpture garden, the pièce de résistance of the park, has been in development for many years. The Barracks now aims to expand artistic endeavors within the Nasser Bagh precinct," he added.
Situated in a spacious basement in the park, previously occupied by the Civil Defence Department, the art gallery underwent extensive renovation by the PHA prior to its opening, with the aim of offering a lively space for art enthusiasts and connoisseurs alike.
"It’s a bold, and perhaps even radical, new attraction for this part of the city and, located amidst the National College of Arts (NCA) and Punjab University College of Arts and Design (PUCAD), it stands as an ideal cultural destination," remarked Fiza Shahid, an art director said.
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