🎭 Wazīr kī Betī Nehru Gallery Chali Gayi
(The Minister’s Daughter Who Eloped with an Artist – A Satirical Social Drama)
By Faraz Parvez
Professor Dr. (Retired) Arshad Afzal
Retired Faculty Member, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, KSA
(Pseudonym of Professor Dr. Arshad Afzal)
Islamabad, 2017.
Mahjabeen Khan, the only daughter of the fiery Interior Minister, was known for her perfectly curated public appearances: award ceremonies, press conferences, and even religious charity events. Clad in chiffon and silence, she was the poster child of obedient privilege.
But inside her air-conditioned world of bodyguards and salon appointments, Mahjabeen kept a secret: she was in love—with Tabrez Alam, a struggling painter from Rawalpindi’s Raja Bazaar, whose only exhibition was once shut down by the very ministry her father ran.
He painted her not as a beauty, but as a question mark—unfinished, defiant, restless. She became his muse, and he, her mirror.
Then came the night of the National Day Gala.
Mahjabeen, dressed in emerald green, vanished an hour before she was to escort a visiting delegation. Rumors swirled. The media went wild.
At dawn, a Facebook post appeared from an unknown art page:
“She’s not missing. She’s finally present—in the brushstroke of rebellion.”
Attached was a painting of Mahjabeen, barefoot, standing beneath a crumbling government building, holding a palette instead of a purse.
The gallery where Tabrez worked was stormed. But the couple had vanished—leaving behind only one unsigned painting titled “Freedom in Four Shades of Guilt.”
Months passed. A mural appeared in Karachi, then Lahore, then Delhi. Always of a woman in green and gold, holding a brush, half-smiling.
Was it really Mahjabeen? No one could confirm. The minister banned the murals. But artists just painted more.
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