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.

Artist Gulgee, his wife murdered 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”. The first exhibition of his art-work was held in 1950. The legendary Ismail Gulgee was entirely self-taught, and was renowned as a portrait painter in his early career. One of his most famous early works was the portrait of Afghanistan’s Shah Zahir Shah painted in 1957. He also had the honour of making portraits of Prince Karim Agha Khan, former princess of Iran, Deeba and former president of Pakistan, Ayub Khan. Transcending simple canvas and paint formulae, Gulgee was known for using mixed materials in his art and was a sculptor of exceptional skill, a legacy that lives on in his son Amin Gulgee.