Allama iqbal - wikipedia

I have been honored by your invitation to say a few words at this book launching of Dr Musarrat Hasan’s book on Khalid Iqbal.It is difficult for me to be detached about either, for they are both dear friends.

I have known both of them for the best part of my life, and when I say ‘the best part’, I do not mean the longest part of my life, but quite literally its ‘best part’, qualitatively the finest part of my life.I have known Khalid sahib since the early 1950s, when he was the art teacher at Aitchison College and I one of his numerous, untalented students.

From Musarrat’s biography, it seems that this was during the period just before Khalid sahib left for London to join the Slade School of Art. I myself left for the U.K. a year later.We did not meet again until I returned to Pakistan in 1966 and met Khalid sahib, this time in his room at the National College of Arts.

I had begun cataloguing the LM collection of miniatures, and often