SIALKOT: A street art contest was held here on the theme of ‘Colours of Pakistan’.

Ahmed Raza, a Sialkot-based 3D street artist, hosted a day-long competition.

He said 75 teams of students of different colleges and universities, participated in the competition besides the artists from Spain and Lahore.

The participants painted walls of the Govt Allama Iqbal Postgraduate College, Sialkot and Govt College of Technology, Sialkot on Paris Road.

A large number of the visitors showed keen interest in the paintings made on walls by the participants.

Mr Raza said the team of Leather Product Development Institute (LPDI), Sialkot won this competition while the participants from Spain got second position and Lahore-based team got third position.

AMERICAN BRIDE: A 55-year-old American woman contracted marriage Pasrur-based Pakistani Facebook friend after reaching here.

Rubica embraced Islam at the hands of a local religious cleric and was renamed Rubica-Umaira. She conducted marriage with Dawood, low-grade employee of the irrigation department after a year-long friendship.

Published in Dawn, December 17th, 2019