Pakistan, Feb. 12 -- The Pakistan Embassy in Berlin, Germany, officials have retained number of paintings of prominent artist Erum Ashfaq after she had displayed these in November 2015 there.

Ashfaq, who hails from Lahore, has requested intervention of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi in the matter for retrieving the paintings from Berlin Embassy officials which they are retaining despite her repeated requests for the last three years to return them.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, Ashfaq said that she has displayed her art work in a number of solo and group paintings exhibitions throughout the country, she paints landscape and cultural, historical and heritage buildings mostly of the motherland to promote its positive image...