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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.
“We want to show the world that Pakistan is not all about
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and terrorism issues; it a
very diverse country and a land of opportunities,” Imran Aslam
Khan, chief operating officer of Sky Wings, a flight training
organisation, told Reuters.
He also plans to paint other aircraft, with the aim of promoting
tourism in Pakistan.
Such art has become one of Pakistan's best-known cultural
exports in recent years. UNESCO, for example, has been using
truck art, blended with indigenous themes, to promote girls'
education in a northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
"The world is familiar with our truck art representation; now,
with this aircraft, our colours will fly in the air. We are
really excited," Haider Ali, the artist painting the aircraft,
told Reuters at the academy's hangar.
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.
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.
(Reporting by Syed Raza Hassan; Editing by Gibran Peshimam and
Gerry Doyle)
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