IT was the annoyance of a president that led to the completion of the National Art Gallery in Islamabad. As news records from the time reveal, soon after Gen Pervez Musharraf moved to his presidential offices, he saw from that high political perch a half-completed carcass of a building. Annoyed at this abandoned protuberance, he asked his staff what it was. He learnt that it was the long-planned and still unrealised National Art Gallery.
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