Bhalla, simply put it, literary criticism helps discriminate between what matters and what doesn’t matter.
Yaqoob Bangash presents solution: engage the Baloch and admit your mistakes.
The scholar dwells on the importance of critique in religion, actually an Islamic tradition.
From the two-nation theory to post-Partition literature - a historian, former minister and academic dissect the past.
Khaled Ahmed attempted to identify, as best as he could in a five-minute slot, minorities in Pakistan.
Not many people can even read the Urdu literature properly, let alone comprehend it, says Iftikhar Arif.
We have been given a blinkered view of the past, say scholars and experts.
No, Salman... don’t do this to me. I was looking forward to listening to your inane ramblings.
What happens when you get three gods of satire in one room?
Karachi Literature Festival’s literati list was enough to leave even most jaded of literary enthusiasts star-struck.