Eqbal Mehdi, PP

Pride of Performance

Pride of Performance , is one of the highest civil award given and conferred by the Pakistan Government to Pakistan's citizens in recognition of distinguished merit in the fields of Literature, Arts, Sports, Medicines, and Science for civilians in most particular cases.The announcement of civil...

 (April 1, 1946, Amroha

Amroha

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, British India – May 19, 2008, Karachi

Karachi

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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) was a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i painter

Painting

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. He is famous for his line etching drawings.

Early life

Mehdi was born to Syed Mir Ali, in Amroha, then British India (now India

India

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) which was also the native place of John Aliya

Jon Elia

Jaun Elia was a notable Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar. He was widely praised for his unique style of writing. He was the brother of renowned journalist and psychoanalyst Rais Amrohvi and journalist and world-renowned philosopher Syed Muhammad Taqi, and husband of famous...

 and Sadquain

Sadequain

Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi , Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter...

. He migrated to Pakistan from Amroha in 1958 with his family remaining in India. His brother would later join him.

Art career

He joined Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. He was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind and an avowed Marxist. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union...

and Sabt-e-Hasan’s magazine, Lail wo Nehar, and also did illustrations for another magazine, Sab Rang, staying with the latter until 1974.

Death

Mehdi died in Karachi on May 19, 2008 after suffering from heart and liver disease. Mehdi left behind a wife, a daughter and a son, Farhan.

External links

• Official website
• Iqbal Mehdi passed away - Daily Times
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/28787512@N03/3277823975/meta/ Rais Najmi a famous Urdu Story Writer from Amroha