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Most schools focus on teaching English language, but do not teach it through literature, Samina Rahman.

Nina Marie Fite, Musharraf Farooqi and Baela Jamil discuss education through story-telling.

Dr Jalal said Manto embellished a historian’s craft into fictional narrative.

‘Women [writers] have a different take on several issues’.

Panellists discuss whether the future holds hope for Urdu, especially literature.

Tehmina Durrani talks to a jam-packed hall, her first public appearance in over 12 years.

Bapsi Sidhwa talks about what drew her to writing and what followed.

Mohammed Hanif talks about missing Baloch and the Pakistan Army.

Ahmed Rashid and William Dalrymple speak about Afghanistan, Taliban and whether David Cameron should apologise.

Poets old and new read their verse at mushaira.

Zehra Nigah and Intezar Hussain recall ‘those early days’

Mueenuddin, Thayil, Koch and Naqvi speak about locations, the discomfort of writing and doubt.

The blind man is Jinnah, envisioning a country on the basis of amazing ideas: Author

Pran Nevile, Bapsi Sidhwa and Intezar Hussain remember their Lahore.

Ayesha Jalal, Tariq Ali and Francis Robinson explore Pakistan’s path to becoming a modern state.

The session The Courtesan in Literature: Umrao Jan to Gohar Jan focused on South Asia’s romance with courtesans.

Satire is always read like a story about someone else, not you, says Moni Mohsin.

Discussion on ‘Literature of Resistance’ at the LLF included writers Selma Dabbagh, Basharat Peer and Mohammed...

Hameed Haroon discusses glorification of jihadi in popular culture.

Neither Pakistan nor India had built even a single memorial for the victims of partition, says writer Tariq Ali.

Daniyal Mueenuddin, Moni Mohsin, Musharraf Ali Farooqi on Globalisation of Pakistani Literature.

8 pieces by 4 artists on display at the Rohtas II Art Gallery.

Critique and online workshops help young writers mature.

Farooqi’s latest novel, Between Clay and Dust, has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize.

The Urdu translation of her first novel The Croweaters will also be launched here.

It was also short-listed for the IMPAC Prize, and won the Encore Award as well as the Kiriyama Prize.

Sidhwa is one of the first Pakistanis writing in English to win international acclaim.