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Pakistan's Truck Art

Lorries painted in bright colours, with an extremely intricate level of detail, are a common sight on the the highways of Pakistan. The paintings -- often coupled with lines of poetry, religious calligraphy or common phrases -- represent the truck driver's identity and regional background. The images on the trucks embody a wide range of themes, including landscapes, celebrities, beautiful women, mythical creatures, religious imagery and national heroes. The extraordinary Pakistani tradition of decorating trucks is said to have its roots in the days of the Raj when craftsmen made glorious horse drawn carriages for the gentry. In the 1920s the Kohistan Bus Company asked the master craftsman Ustad Elahi Bakhsh to decorate their buses to attract passengers. Bukhsh employed a company of artists from the Punjab town of Chiniot, who’s ancestors had worked on many great palaces and temples dating back to the Mughal Empire. It was not long before the truck owners followed suit with their own design. Through the years the materials used have developed from wood and paint to metal, tinsel, plastic and reflective tape. Within the last few years trucks and buses have been further embellished with full lighting systems. This video was filmed by me on a holiday in Northern Pakistan in 2015. The commentary has been copied from professional sources.