Artist Gulgi/ Gulgee and his wife murdered
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So sad; my friend Naseer Mughal just got a mobile SMS news flash message announcing a bad news. “Artist Gulgee and his wife Murdered”. I couldn’t beleive the news but it was one of the Pak Government cellular companies Ufone and I had to beleieve it. I just did a quick type in my Firefox’s address bar, yeah the famous ( yet notorious to our so-called liberal and democratic Islamic Republic of Pakistan ) Geo News adress www.geo.tv and yeah this news was the latest one in their sidebar. The details are as follows. These details are taken from the Geo TV and I take no responsibility for any misinformation.
KARACHI: Renowned artist Ismail Gulgee, his wife Zarine along with their maid were found dead here at their residence on Wednesday.The initial investigations reveal that they were killed about two to three days ago.Ismail Gulgee was an award-winning, world famous Pakistani artist who was born in Peshawar on October 25, 1926. A qualified engineer from the U.S, he was a self-taught abstract and portrait painter.From about 1960, Guljee was noted as an abstract painter influenced by the tradition of Islamic calligraphy and by the American “action painting”.
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I was really hurt to hear this as my friend Naseer Mughal just got a Ufone flash news SMS on his cell phone. And he informed me about this. I have always been thinking about blogging about him. And its so sad, I had to write his murder news on my blog! Are our authorities sleeping! Its what happens to the greatest and influential people in Pakistan, I fear what can happen to the rest of the people !
http://pakspectator.blogspot.com/2007/12/murder-of-gulgee.html
i saw my cell and i was shocked to see breaking news about my favorate person GULLJEE. i cant explane my feelings how hurt and how crying i am.
i am a artist too and i leart my great teacher gulljee and and want to more from my teacher but…
GULLJEE i missing u and 1 day i will b a great artist same 2 u
There are hundreds of sites now showing this news in their updates.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s well-known painter Ismail Gulgee, 71, has been found murdered along with his wife and a maid in his house in a posh residential area in Karachi, police said.
The three were all found strangled to death with gags tied around their mouths, police said, adding that the condition of the bodies indicates they may have been dead for three days.
Pakistani painter Ismail Gulgee murdered
I just did a quick search over Google for more information on this and I found hundreds of site’s mentioning the great loss of a beloved artist Ismail Gulgee. Here is a link to Japan Today news that gives some information about it!
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/423159
Pakistani artist Gulgee murdered in his home
KARACHI - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistan’s most prominent artist, was found murdered on Wednesday along with his wife and a maid in their Karachi home, police said. He was 81.
They said the three were found gagged in different rooms of the house, which is in the city’s most upmarket district. The hands of his wife, Zarina, were tied.
“All three were suffocated. This happened around three days ago,” said senior Karachi police officer Asif Ejaz Sheikh.
He said Gulgee’s body was found in the bedroom, his wife’s body in the kitchen and the maid in the main hall. The bodies were found by police after a neighbour complained of a bad smell.
Gulgee trained as an engineer in the United States before turning to painting works of modern art. He won various awards.
After starting out as a portrait painter, he turned to more abstract painting and became interested in Islamic calligraphy.
He produced numerous works using the different names of Allah, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York said on its Web site (www.metmuseum.org).
“In these textural works, Gulgee brings the Islamic calligraphy tradition to the modern practice of action painting such as that developed by the American artist Jackson Pollock,” the museum said.
President Pervez Musharraf said on his Web site Gulgee was his “all-time favourite” artist. Musharraf condemned the killings, state television reported.
Gulgee was born in Peshawar in 1926. His son, Amin Gulgee, is a well-known sculptor.
News source: Khaleej Times Online >> News >> SUBCONTINENT
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/December/subcontinent_December641.xml§ion=subcontinent
I heared the news on sindh TV and screamed.I cant explain my feelings. An innocent, harmless pesrson and a great artist of pakistan. I missed hakim Muhammad Saeed shaheed too. this is the end of such great persons in our country. its really…………… i cant tell………….i m really shocked.