{"id":33423,"date":"2021-06-24T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/24\/a-haven-for-free-thinkers-pakistan-creatives-mourn-loss-of-progressive-arts-space"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T05:00:48","slug":"a-haven-for-free-thinkers-pakistan-creatives-mourn-loss-of-progressive-arts-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33423","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A haven for free-thinkers\u2019: Pakistan creatives mourn loss of progressive arts space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Tragic\u2019 closure of Sabeen Mahmud\u2019s community venue T2F in Karachi comes as PM Imran Khan accused of fostering censorship and intolerance<\/p>\n<p>Danial Shah turned to Sabeen Mahmud, for help with his first photo exhibition when all other organisations refused to show his work. Shah\u2019s photographs cover political and cultural issues, such as local elections and women\u2019s rights. Some refused to work with him on political grounds, while others did not reply at all.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting at Mahmud\u2019s community space, T2F, in Karachi, Pakistan\u2019s biggest city, she agreed to host his exhibition. But Mahmud, a 40-year-old human rights activist who oversaw a programme of progressive arts at T2F, did not get to see Shah\u2019s first exhibition. She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/25\/sabeen-mehmud-pakistani-womens-rights-activist-shot-dead\">murdered a few months after their meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/24\/a-haven-for-free-thinkers-pakistan-creatives-mourn-loss-of-progressive-arts-space\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Tragic\u2019 closure of Sabeen Mahmud\u2019s community venue T2F in Karachi comes as PM Imran Khan accused of fostering censorship and intoleranceDanial Shah turned to Sabeen Mahmud, for help with his first photo exhibition when all other organisations refused &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[457,59,53,359,447,669,238,60,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-imran-khan","category-islam","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-pakistan","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33424,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423\/revisions\/33424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}