LAHORE: A sculpture of renowned poet Allama Iqbal unveiled at a public park in Lahore has received criticism for the botched artwork.
Placed at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore, it is still not identified who made the sculpture of Allama Iqbal. Since it has grabbed the attention of people, social media users have been criticising the carving.
Photos are trending on Twitter and Facebook. Some social media users are criticizing the creation, while some others are commenting on it positively:
جناب ولید اقبال صاحب کیا آپ جانتے ہیں یہ کس کا مجسمہ ہے؟ کیا یہ کہیں سے بھی شاعر مشرق کا مجسمہ نظر آتا ہے؟ آپکی حکومت کے خیال میں یہ شاعر مشرق ہیں اور کسی سفارشی سےمجسمہ بنواکر عوام الناس کے لئے اسے گلشن اقبال لاہور میں سجا دیا گیا مجھے تو یہ مجسمہ دیکھ کر بہت افسوس ہوا ہے pic.twitter.com/girwXllzZt
— Hamid Mir (@HamidMirPAK) February 2, 2021
#SorryAllamaSb
Newly placed Allama Iqbal’s sculpture in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park.
It looks nothing like him .. What you had to say?#Lahore #AllamaIqbal #NayaPakistan @UmaimaBlogger @ilyasabbasi @tango1711 @LahoreNama @odysseuslahori pic.twitter.com/ZNELmUOSUW— Adil Lahorei (@Adillahorei) February 2, 2021
Maybe the Allama Iqbal statue is a brilliant social commentary on the whatsapp uncle who invokes Iqbal to make cartoonish points about life wrapped up in religious garb.
— Arsalan Khan (@akkhan81) February 2, 2021
Allama Iqbal’s statue doesn’t surprise me at all … it’s in line with how we have deformed the country, it’s polity, it’s culture and ideology of its creation. pic.twitter.com/6ekNpxJmpa
— Musadaq Zulqarnain (@MusadaqZ) February 2, 2021
A new bust (sculpture) of Allama Iqbal has been placed at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan, and do you think it resembles anywhere to our national poet? Uh, we don’t.#AllamaIqbal #Lahore #Pakistan pic.twitter.com/iGvMw23VWi
— Fahad Khan (@MrFahadKhan) February 2, 2021
