KARACHI, Pakistan — The brutal killing of George Floyd by police in the United States has sent shock waves across the world, even reaching Pakistan’s…
KARACHI, Pakistan —
The brutal killing of George Floyd by police in the United States has sent shock waves across the world, even reaching Pakistan’s southern Sindh province where a truck artist has painted a large mural of the slain African American on a wall of his home.
The 40-year-old artist, Haider Ali, depicted Floyd surrounded by a colorful heart-shaped garland of flowers, with slogans such as #Black Lives Matter on one side and #justice and #equality on the other.
“This is a message of peace and love to all,» Ali told The Associated Press on Friday, as he put the finishing touches on the mural. “It’s not from an individual, this message of love is from all of Pakistan.”
The mural stands out as a burst of color on Ali’s porch wall in the southern port city of Karachi. On one side of the portrait, Ali painted candles burning in memory of Floyd and in the upper right-hand corner, an American and Pakistani flag next to one another.
Floyd, a black man, gasped for breath in Minneapolis while being pressed under the knee of a white police officer for several minutes.
