The artist who painted Zahir Jaffar, who was involved in the murder of Noor Muqadam, the daughter of a former ambassador to Islamabad, is being subjected to horrific criticism.
Young artist Abdul Mufti recently painted Zahir Jaffar, in which he brutally portrayed the accused.
The artist's portrait shows a man in a white shalwar kameez and vest with blood stains on his clothes and body and sitting on the bed smiling.
There was blood on the floor in the painting while the sentence on the wall was written in blood that he is not a Pakistani but an American citizen.
While sharing the painting, the artist wrote that it is possible that the painting may make people feel scary and it may affect some people, however, the purpose of the painting was to show the brutality of the killer.
He wrote that he did not want to show the killer in plain clothes in the painting, but he wanted to show him in such a way that he felt that he was conscious at the time of the heinous act and he did not deserve that mercy.
The artist wrote that one of the motives behind his painting of the killer with blood was to remember the brutal oppression if our system could not provide justice to the victim.
He wrote in a long post that he made the painting in the above style in order to show how the perpetrators of such atrocities in the society remain calm and how women are killed one after the other. Is.
However, many people were unhappy with his painting and asked the artist to delete it, as it is very scary.
Several people on Twitter described the painting as "dangerous" and wrote that the victims or their families could be further shocked by it, so it should be removed and deleted.
Some people wrote that the trauma of any victim and the atrocities inflicted on them cannot be turned into art, looking at the said painting can be a shock to the victims and their families.
It may be recalled that Noor Muqadam, 27, daughter of the former ambassador, was killed by her friend Zahir Jaffer on July 20, after which the accused was arrested by filing a case on the complaint of the victim's family.
Zahir Jaffar is currently in police custody and according to media reports, he confessed to killing Noor Muqaddam during interrogation.
There is a wave of outrage across the country over the incident, which took place at a time when women named Qaratul Ain and Saima were brutally murdered by their husbands in Hyderabad, Sindh province.
While prominent figures are expressing outrage on social media over the spate of murders of women, there are also demonstrations in various cities across the country demanding harsher punishments for the killers.
This image might trigger you, it might be too disturbing; but it is an important image.
— Abdal Mufti (@MuftiAbdal) July 24, 2021
I wanted to paint Zahir Jaffer after his grotesque crime, i can't stand his pictures in a suit that are going around.
I wanted to paint him as a symbol of the monsters that we hide among us. pic.twitter.com/baFbW0EK69
This image might trigger you, it might be too disturbing; but it is an important image.
— Abdal Mufti (@MuftiAbdal) July 24, 2021
I wanted to paint Zahir Jaffer after his grotesque crime, i can't stand his pictures in a suit that are going around.
I wanted to paint him as a symbol of the monsters that we hide among us. pic.twitter.com/baFbW0EK69
