Capital book fair postponed for a week

The three-day Capital Book Fair being arranged by the Department of Libraries in collaboration with other partners in the federal capital has been delayed for a week due to some reasons.

According to an official, the book fair earlier scheduled to be held from January 5-7 will now be held from January 13-15 at the art and craft village. The event is being arranged in collaboration with Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and it will offer a variety of books on discounted prices.

The objectives behind arranging this book fair is to revive book-reading habit among the public, preserve literary cultural heritage and bring back the culture of book in society.

Professor Tahir, while talking to APP, said "This book fair is the much-needed activity to instill book reading culture among the youth, who are now more focused on electronic gadgets instead of books."

Nazish Abbasi, a schoolteacher and research scholar while sharing her views, said that unfortunately the culture of reading books was almost becoming non-existent "in our society due to many reasons, including high prices of books and easy access to books on the internet."

Published in The Express Tribune, January 10^th, 2023.