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Profile: Yaar Muhammad Soomro
By Mahesh Kumar
The extent of development of art and culture is index by which history judges the contribution of civilization to human progress. The handicrafts more than anything else express and exhibit the blend of art and culture of people.
Sindh, one of four provinces of
Among such artisans one is Yaar Muhammad Soomro who contributed his whole life for supporting art and culture.
The Soomras of Hala excel in Kashi Kari, the craft of glazed tile which is the unit of embellishment of every mazar, every tombstone, and almost every mosque.
His birth place is Hala, he was born in 1947. His father Haji Maman Soomro was also a good glazier. Yaar Muhammad learned this art of glazing from his father.
From his early childhood he was interested in learning the work of Kashi and he started to learn from the age of 13 years and in the age of 20 years he became a good artisan of Kashi
He started to introduce many new designs in market and he became very much popular for his skill.
He was very poor but the passion of his work and his continuous struggle has given him a good position in the society, he has own industry of Kashi in Hala.
He attends many cultural exhibitions in
He and his brother Gul Muhammad Soomro were given award of the Best Work of Kashi Kari by Ghulam Ishaq Khan in the government of Benezir Bhutto in 1990 that is the great achievement of his life.
Many national and international companies offered him to work with them, but he refused because he wanted to make his forefather’s profession alive for the years and he never left his motherland
Sindh. He is the oldest Glazier in Hala.
He has trained many artisans in Hala and till today he is also working. His profession is his passion and proud.
Such artisans are really the treasure of the nation, who devotes their whole life for the support of our art and culture.
Can I please have his phone number?
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