From the highways to the skies: Pakistan's famous truck art goes airborne

Such art has become one of Pakistan's best-known cultural exports in recent years

Published: January 01, 2021 15:24 Reuters and Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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Karachi, Pakistan: Pakistan's famous truck art will move from its highways to the skies, as a flying academy is painting a two-seater Cessna aircraft with the colourful technique. Image Credit: Reuters

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With elaborate and flamboyant motifs, Pakistani truck art has inspired gallery exhibitions abroad and prompted stores in Western cities to sell miniatures. Image Credit: Reuters

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"We want to show the world that Pakistan is a very diverse country and a land of opportunities" said Imran Aslam Khan, chief operating officer of Sky Wings, a flight training organisation. Image Credit: Reuters

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He also plans to paint other aircraft, with the aim of promoting tourism in Pakistan. Image Credit: Reuters

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Such art has become one of Pakistan's best-known cultural exports in recent years. Image Credit: Reuters

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UNESCO, for example, has been using truck art, blended with indigenous themes, to promote girls' education in a northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Image Credit: Reuters

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"The world is familiar with our truck art representation; now, with this aircraft, our colours will fly in the air. We are really excited," said Haider Ali, the artist painting the aircraft at the academy's hangar. Image Credit: Reuters

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Trained by his father, Ali, 40, has been decorating trucks since his childhood and is now one of the most prominent such painters in Pakistan. Image Credit: Reuters

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Ali hopes to paint an Airbus or Boeing aircraft in the future, saying an opportunity to work on such gargantuan planes would truly be a learning experience. Image Credit: Reuters

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