Daily Times

LAHORE: World renowned Pakistani artist, social crusader and philanthropist Jimmy Engineer continues to promote and project soft, positive, moderate and forward looking image of Pakistan and its peace-loving people before the comity of nations through his art, delivering talks and interacting with people from all walks of life.

Jimmy Engineer is scheduled to visit Britain in the last week of current month and to deliver a talk in London on July 25.

The event is being organised by the Pakistan Society and the venue will be the premises of the Pakistan High Commissioner at Lowndes Square.

He will also be interacting afterwards with Pakistani and local community members and answer their queries.

It is pertinent to mention that Engineer embodies in himself national integration and unity. He was born in Loralai, Balochistan, educated in Lahore and been for a brief time also to Peshawar and is living in Karachi for more than four decades after turning into a professional artist.

During all these years, Engineer has created more than 3,000 paintings, 1,000 calligraphies and 1,500 drawings which are in museums and private collections in more than 60 countries throughout the world. Many, however, have remained undocumented as he has been giving countless of these away to charities in order to raise money for noble causes.

As a social crusader, he has to his credit introducing the concept of fun, food and awareness programmes for mentally retarded, physically handicapped, deaf and dumb children by entertaining these children in posh hotels and restaurants in Karachi, Lahore and also in Sri Lanka and held more than 100 solo walks raising awareness of a myriad issues, mainly those relating to serious disadvantaged children, to widows and orphans as well as to the hardships and the endemic health problems they continue to endure.

His mission to support people in need stems from a decision which he took way back in 1994 to walk from one end of Pakistan to another so that he might get to know how people lived. It had taken him a year to walk as much as 4,700 kilometres on his own without being harmed, taking indirect, circuitous routes to see as much as he could.

Engineer in all fairness perhaps is the most travelled and exhibited Pakistani artist and continues to carry on his good work tirelessly within the country and abroad as well.

Published in Daily Times, July 14^th 2018.