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The extra eight hours that worked for Abdullah Hussain

Anil Datta Karachi: The Arts Council was host to an enlivening evening on Monday with nationally famed Lahore-based novelist Abdullah Hussain who was in town in connection with the 4th Karachi Literature Festival. Addressing a compact gathering, Hussain talked about his metamorphosis into a novelist. The programme was compered by Wusatullah Khan of the BBC […]


Room for improvement

PERHAPS it speaks to the condition of the once glorious city by the sea that the Karachi Literature Festival is celebrated more for what it represents than what it does. The mere fact that a demoralised Karachi can be in the news for positive reasons, even if only for a weekend each spring, is seen […]


Karachi Literature Festival lures large number of visitors

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By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) is an effort to promote reading habit among people, connect ourselves with cultures of others through books, make relationship among writers, share narratives, build relationship among readers and writers and make strong link of readers with books. These views were shared by the Oxford University Press (OUP), […]


Karachi killings: why is foreign media not interested?

By: Imtiaz Ali Karachi: The foreign media has least interest in covering Karachi killings partly because they were a routine matter, said Declan Walsh, the New York Times correspondent in Pakistan. He was speaking at a session titled “Pakistan through Foreign Eyes” on the third day of the 4th Karachi Literature Festival on Sunday. “Violence […]


Emerging talent proves threre’s more to the literary scene than the Kamilas and Mohsins

By: Batool Zehra KARACHI: The early morning session on emerging writers may not have commanded the kind of crowd that was seen thronging George Galloway’s talk or the book launches for the more established Pakistani English novelists. But those who had rushed their Sunday morning breakfast (or skipped it altogether) were in for a treat. […]


Tehrik-e-Niswan steals the show

By: Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: The team of Tehrik-e-Niswan led by Sheema Kirmani stole the show at KLF by doing perfect dramatic reading of one of the plays written by renowned author Intizar Husain. Intizar Hussain, who himself was present as chief guest at the event, appreciated the team and said that he had written […]


‘Culture of impunity worsening plight of missing persons’

Karachi: A culture of impunity is increasing in the country to such an extent that those involved in cases of missing persons are sure that they can even get away with murder, said celebrated novelist and journalist Mohammed Hanif on Saturday. He expressed these views during the launch of his book ‘The Baloch who is […]


Literature festival in Karachi

Some of the sheen has been taken off the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) due to circumstances beyond its control. A rash of cancellations from Indian participants has left the festival, now in its fourth year, without some of its biggest draws. Author Shobhaa De, who was also at the KLF last year, said she could […]


Karachi Literature Festival begins today

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KARACHI: Despite an unexpected pull-out of distinguished Indian poet and filmmaker Gulzar, the three-day fourth Karachi Literature Festival beginning at the Beach Luxury Hotel on Friday promises a lot for the country’s book lovers and art buffs. (Click here for an exclusive coverage of the festival) Like the previous three editions of the festival, this […]