Word: imran
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...Another renowned miniaturist, the Pakistani Muhammad Imran Qureshi, has contributed an installation entitled "Changing Times." In the pools of light coming through the exhibition venue's French windows, he has painted the delicate foliage common to traditional miniatures. They were executed at different moments of the day, indicating the passage of time, but also the ravages of history: it is as if the building's marble floors are witnesses to Afghanistan's eras of light and destruction. Some are filled in completely, others are more fragmented, as if indicating the slow state of reconstruction in Afghanistan today...
...exit polls, saying that they "create chaos, are misleading and give rise to rumors." Of course, they can also be a reliable check on election results. "This is yet another restriction on the type of commentary and prognostication of polling that the government doesn't want to see," says Imran Aslam, president Geo TV, Pakistan's most popular channel. "They are obviously concerned about any kind of independent observation with people in the field... We weren't doing just exit polls, we were able to get a progressive look at the outcomes and in a scientific matter predict results. This...
...being attacked as a dictator who could tear a nation apart. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf was in London today, reassuring British Prime Minster Gordon Brown that his home country's parliamentary elections next month would be free and fair. But at a press conference an hour later, Imran Khan, ex-cricket legend and head of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, warned that if Musharraf's party wins the majority on February 18, the world will witness protests that make the recent riots in Kenya "look like child's play...
...first glance this seems to be a victory for Musharraf, who can now claim that January's elections are legitimized by nearly full party participation (several smaller parties, including that of Imran Khan, another politician with premier ambitions, have not yet decided if they will contest). But now Musharraf's smaller party, which split off from the Muslim League when Musharraf overthrew Sharif in 1999's bloodless coup, faces serious competition from both the Bhutto's People's Party of Pakistan and Sharif's party, which have wide national support...
...Lahore, and that ul-Hassan has taught there. The only art school in the world to boast a miniature department where students learn the painstaking techniques that Mughal miniaturists employed, the college has produced a string of artists who are reinvigorating old forms with post-9/11 themes. Imran Qureshi, a professor of miniature at the NCA, has a solo show in Oxford's Modern Art museum, which includes his delicate rendering of a bearded mullah blowing bubbles. In 2003, Qureshi and five other NCA graduates collaborated on Karkhana, a set of miniature postcards decorated with gorgeous shows of power...