Speaking to The Express Tribune, Safar Ali said that his family has been associated with the craft for the past 147 years. She commended our hard work and wrote in our log book, “beautiful shop and wonderful man” Safar Ali recalled. Akin to Khwaja Safar Ali, Khadim Hussain, 60, is another brass craft expert who works in his own small-scale factory. Hussain explained that his father Haji Fazal Mahmood built his small brass factory in 1948 –a year after the independence of Pakistan. As a result, not only foreigners stopped visiting but locals also stopped buying brass items because of the resultant poverty,” Mahmood said.

Source: The Express Tribune April 14, 2019 03:56 UTC