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Pakistan's Art of Quiet Outrage
On Oct. 18, 2007, Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after eight years in exile, flying into Karachi, where she was greeted by a massive homecoming celebration. "We were so delighted she was back," recalls one of Pakistan's best-known contemporary artists, Rashid Rana, who was in Lahore at the time. "One felt sure good times were ahead." A few hours into the procession, two bombs exploded among the crowd. Bhutto escaped unharmed, but 143 other people were killed. Rana was among the millions who watched the event on television, images of the gnarled metal and flesh thereafter fixed in his mind.
Two months later Bhutto's assassins succeeded, but it was the events of Oct. 18 that prompted Rana to make Red Carpet
By Pernilla Holmes Friday, November 6, 2009
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