Jinnah’s portrait goes mysteriously missing from Pak PM house auditorium

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Jinnah’s portrait goes mysteriously missing from Pak PM house auditorium

July 19th, 2009

ISLAMABAD - The portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah went mysteriously missing from the PM House auditorium just before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was to address the media there.

Officials at the auditorium were shocked when they found Jinnah’s portrait missing from its place.

Jinnah’s picture was hung in between the portraits of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, but as the ‘father of the nation’s’ portrait went missing only a nail remained in between the two pictures.

Several television channel camerapersons were seen taking pictures of the wall with missing portrait, The Nation reports.

The portrait was finally restored on its place after a frantic search by the officials.

However, it is still unclear as to who had actually removed Jinnah’s portrait.

It may be noted that some days ago a private television channel had reported that Jinnah’s portrait is missing of from Prime Minister House, but it was strongly denied and rejected by the government at that time. (ANI)

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Quaid’s portrait again missing
By: Naveed Butt | Published: July 19, 2009

ISLAMABAD- Who removed the portrait of the Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah from the auditorium of the PM House before Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani arrived there to address the media here Saturday, will remain a mystery till authorities concerned finally resolve it.
Before the news conference started, the journalists observed that portrait of Quaid-e-Azam Muhmmad Ali Jinnah was missing while cameramen of various private channels were taking visuals of the portraits of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed and late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto placed on right and left of the auditorium wall bearing only a nail in the middle but with no portrait of the Quaid.
It was only then that the organizers of press conference realized the importance of the Quaid’s portrait. They immediately produced the missing portrait and fixed it in the middle of the two already fixed portraits.
Many journalists present in the auditorium witnessed the scene of how the organizers fixed the portrait on ‘emergency basis’.