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Article: Pakistan's First National Art Gallery.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- November 13, 2007
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Pakistans First National Art Gallery
By: Mahendra Ved
November 13 (PTI Feature) -- Amidst continuing political turmoil, emergence of a soft image of Pakistan has gone virtually unnoticed. It has acquired its first National Art Gallery sixty years after its birth, completed 28 years after it was begun.
The credit for the much-delayed project goes to President Pervez Musharraf who has been making consistent efforts to change the projection of Pakistan, associated with religious extremism and even terrorism. But it would have to be shared also by the first popular prime minister, late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who began the project in 1974, and his ...