In Pakistan, artist turns bleak into beauty
He chronicles lives of women in city's red-light district
LAHORE, Pakistan -- By night, Iqbal Hussain moves shyly among the crowds of customers who flock to his restaurant to dine in the shadow of the magnificent sandstone minarets of Lahore's Badshahi Mosque. By day, Hussain takes his pencils and paintbrushes into the narrow, filthy streets of the Heera Mandi, Lahore's red light district. (Full article: 928 words)
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