"Skardu N the heavens were cast as if at my feet. The play of light fascinated me."

-- Laila Shahzada - Exploring an Inner Landscape

"Overwhelmed by the natural beauty of the mountainous north, she fell in love with Skardu. The scenic works she painted were an awed tribute to nature's splendours. While giving an interview to Shamim Dallazai for Dawn Oversees Weekly in 1987 she enthused, 'Skardu N the heavens were cast as if at my feet. The play of light fascinated me.' Along with this miraculous light, the strongly reflected clouds in whiffs, wooly, silver, grey, cast on transparent blue lakes also entranced her and she came out with an array of soft, sensitive, rainbow-hued delicacies."

-- Salwat Ali, Laila Shahzada - Exploring an Inner Landscape