Book fair registers footfall of over 400,000 visitors

The 18th World Book Fair ongoing at the Expo Centre, Karachi registered a footfall of more than 400,000 people on the third day including girls and women.

A trend of buying Islamic books, fiction, novels and children's educational storybooks was observed among the women who came to the book fair.

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Publishers at the fair said that women's tendency towards Islamic books, Urdu novels and fiction was seen more at the stalls. As many as 40 institutions from 17 countries are participating in the fair. The organisers have set up more than 330 stalls displaying textbooks or non-curricular books.

Caretaker Information Minister Sindh Muhammad Ahmad Shah also visited the fair. While talking to the media, he said that paper has be- come four times expensive in two years. He said that cheap paper will be used in scientific and other necessary books.