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 DADU: Experts and academician have expressed dissatisfaction on quality of restoration and renovation work of Khudaabad mosque and said use of cement and modern building material has defaced the grandeur of the 17th century edifice.
Fatah Daudpoto, an expert of surface decoration of architectural heritage and teacher of visual arts at the Centre of Excellence Art and Design, Jamshoro told Dawn on Wednesday that the government was incompetent to undertake work of restoration of art, craft and heritage because it lacked proper skills and honesty.
He said that finance was not a big matter, successive governments had released huge funds several times, which went down the drain because of officials’ incompetence.
Highly skilled craftsmen were required to conserve Khudaabad Mosque with the original material, design and aesthetics but the government officials were callously using cement, a modern material, in preservation of the mosque, he said. He said that it had defaced the original tiles lavishly adorned with fresco painting in the name of preservation. The first phase of conservation involved documentation of the site, drawings of the plan, layout, alleviation and surface decoration followed by development and construction work, he said. Mian Amir Bux Kalhoro, chairman of the Yadgar committee of Mian Naseer Mohammad, Yar Mohammad Kalhoro shrines, said the preservation work lacked expertise and it had destroyed surface decorations of fresco and tiles and completely destroyed the tombs.>>>More Details
The Liaquat National Memorial Library formerly National Library of Pakistan, is located at Stadium Road in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
The National library of Pakistan was established in 1950 as a branch Directorate. In the year 1954, the Liaqat Memorial Library was declared as legal depository under the Copyright Law. This Library continued to function of the National Library until 1986. Over a short span of few years the library has acquired numerous collections through purchases, copyright deposits, gifts, exchanges, and donations. The library has total holding; 144,000 volumes (73,000 English and European Languages, 40,000 Oriental Languages).
Liaquat Memorial Library has been serving the nation for over fifty years and its collection of more than 150,000 can now be searched online. The library have the biggest collection among the public libraries of the country. Liaquat Memorial Library holds thousands of volumes of books and other reading materials. Library is intended to be a reference library for all purposes, a working place for scholars, Postgraduate students of social sciences and humanities and repository of national published literature for future historians
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ISLAMABAD: The message from the Sarhad Cultural Festival in the capital is that normalcy has returned to most parts of NWFP including Swat, said Lok Virsa Executive Director Khalid Javaid as he listened to pounding drums and looked at the panorama of pavilions hawking ethnic tinsels and fabrics spun out of lamb wool.
As Javed, a 22-year-old artist from Peshawar, strikes his stringed traditional musical instrument Rabbab, he brings out the fest alive as if the mannequins enclosed in the heritage museum have come out of their showcases and spread out over the big Lok Virsa campus, the venue of the festival. He begins with the famed welcome tune tu meri jan jana, dilbar jana before striking other melodies.
This recreates a typical evening scene at the street of story tellers in Peshawar. And there is also a functioning kehva khana as an assurance that the NWFP feel is real.In fact, the stamp of the province gets more real when one moves about 50 yards ahead and sees the ethnic Kalash tribal dance from Chitral.This is presented by five young Kalash women, among whom are Shaera and Ms Toofan (Toofan insisted that she be called Miss), who could converse in English.>>>More Details
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