ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of paintings from budding youth artists from diverse localities of the county was held to portray the outrageous buoyancy of teenagers in the perspective of what they are foreseeing about the transformation of stagnated life of common man into vibrant hours of propitious life. Oh: this is lizard of ignorance, now on the way to swallow the kitty of books but books are not mere repository of papers and representatives of some stereotype write up but they are demonstrating a deplorable plight that if love for books dies in a society then an animalistic hate opens its jaws to crush it to nothingness. “Will lizard of illiteracy succeed in stinging young minds or they will wage a struggle to erect a bulwark against rising steps of lizard of disaster and annihilation, said deep pensive looks of the artist while swiveling her eye balls to the apathy haunting the minds of viewers and audience. But the thing like response was seen nowhere even not on the glistening faces of innocence and childish mischief. How terrible lizard it is, terrifying and terrified, with one message only that she is on the side of ignorance, illiteracy and stands diametrically opposed to allow to any ray of knowledge to spark. Will I succeed in my vicious designs for dragging the entire society into stone age of illiteracy, lizard glanced over the glowing faces of surging crowd. But lizard had to step back with the pace she had stepped forward. No to illiteracy, No to poverty, no to drug trafficking, no to shisha smoking, we are society of eagles, not of vultures, the voices zoomed jubilantly, passionately. The lizard was no more there, the darkness is doomed to evaporate, today, tomorrow or the days to come. American Ambassador David Hale has said that Pakistan have rich art and diverse cultural heritage. He was speaking at opening ceremony of contemporary Pakistani art exhibition here at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA). The exhibit was organized by the Kuch Khaas Center for Arts, Culture, and Dialogue, will remain on display at PNCA for two months. Ambassador David Hale along with PNCA Director General Jamal Shah cut the ribbon and opened the exhibit, titled “Open Field,” features the works of more than 80 young artists from across Pakistan and is funded by the American Embassy. Ambassador Hale appreciated the work of artists and said that this exhibition is part of cultural diplomacy from US mission here in Pakistan. This exhibition is aimed to build people to people contact. This exhibit shows the vitality of the Pakistani arts community and its ability to conserve and reflect its rich creative heritage while inventing new forms of expression for today. Speaking at the ceremony Jamal Shah said that art is a form of communication which bridging gap between various communities and they come to closer through it. In her remarks, American writer and curator Dr. Vicky Clark admired work of young Pakistani artists. Aasim Akhtar exhibit curator said that the artwork on display in ‘Open Field’ is representative of the ways in which artists, operating fully within art-world conventions, have begun to ask new questions and to open up spaces for the formation of new processes. People from various lives came to see work of artists of various parts of Pakistan.