5, 6, and 7 February 2016

7 Bringing together
Timings: 10 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. international and
Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi Pakistani writers
to promote reading
and showcase writing
at its best

karachiliteraturefestival.org Entry is free and open to all.

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 The Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) has been a resounding
success since its launch in March 2010. Inspired by the first two
KLFs (2010 and 2011), the Childrens Literature Festival (CLF) was AUTHORS/MODERATORS/SPEAKERS
launched at the end of 2011. The momentum begun in Pakistan Aaron Mulvany Azra Abbas Hashim Raza
with the KLF led not only to the CLF but also to the Islamabad Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Babar Ayaz Hina Rabbani Khar
Literature Festival (ILF) launched in 2013, the Teachers Literature Adeela Suleman Baela Raza Jamil Hoori Noorani
Festival (TLF) launched in 2014, and many others in Pakistan. Afzaal Ahmad Barbara D. Metcalf Imdad Hussaini
This momentum reflects the depth of our historical literary and Afzal Ahmed Syed Barbara Toye-Welsh Imran Qureshi
cultural roots, and the great desire in Pakistan to celebrate the Aijaz Mangi Bari Mian Inaam Nadeem
pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and creativity. Aisha Khalid Barkha Dutt Irfan Javed
The KLF and ILF are directed by Ameena Saiyid, founded by Ajmal Siraj Bilal Hamid Ishrat Husain
Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi, and produced by Oxford Ali Akbar Natiq Bina Sarkar Jamsheed Marker
University Press. The first of a kind in Pakistan, they are open Ali Habib Bina Shah Javaid Ahmed
to all and free, and bring together authors writing in diverse Ali Khan Bindiya Rana Jean-Luc Racine
languages and genres. They feature debates, discussions, lectures, English and Urdu mushaira, a Ali Nobil Ahmad Brigitta Blaha John OBrien
book fair, book launches, readings, signings, comedy, satire, theatre, film screenings, music, and Ali Safina Camilla Hadi Chaudhary Kamal Khan
dance. Since 2014, the KLF and ILF have featured parallel art programming, curated by ArtNow. Ali Usman Qasmi Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq Kamila Shamsie
Additionally, the KLF has featured parallel childrens programming such as storytelling, puppetry, Aliya Iqbal Naqvi Christoph Peters Kashif Hussain Ghayar
painting, singing, and creative movement. Amar Jaleel Daniel Mattern Kasim Kasuri
KLF attendance has grown exponentially: 5,000 in 2010; 10,000 in 2011; 15,000 in 2012; 50,000 in Amar Naseer Deborah Robinson Kausar S. Khan
2013; 70,000 in 2014; and 125,000 last year. In 2010, there were 35 speakers/performers, 104 in 2011; Amar Pirzada Ehsan Masood Khawar Mumtaz
139 in 2012; and, since 2013, the KLF has featured more than 200 speakers/performers each year. Amar Sindhu Ejaz Ahed Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
Ambareen Haseeb Amber Emaan Rana Khwaja Razi Haider
Each year, the speakers/participants have been outstanding, including, but not limited to, these
Amean J. Emmanuelle Collas Kiran Aman
keynote speakers: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (2010); Karen Armstrong (2011); William Dalrymple
Ameena Saiyid F. S. Aijazuddin Kishwar Naheed
(2012); Intizar Husain and Nadeem Aslam (KLF 2013); Intizar Husain, Kamila Shamsie, and Zia
Amra Ali Fahmida Riaz Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
Mohyeddin (ILF 2013); Kamila Shamsie, Rajmohan Gandhi, and Raza Ali Abidi (KLF 2014); Aamer
Anas Riasat Faraz Maqsood Hamidi Mahmood Ayub
Hussein, Kishwar Naheed, Muneeza Shamsie, and Zehra Nigah (ILF 2014); Nayantara Sahgal and
Andrea Berrini Farhan Bokhari Mahreen Zuberi
Zehra Nigah (KLF 2015); Anatol Lieven, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Paul Harding, and Zehra Nigah (ILF 2015).
Aneesuddin Ahmed Farida Faizullah Mahtab Akbar Rashdi
This years keynote addresses will be delivered by Fahmida Riaz, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Rakhshanda
Anis Haroon Farjad Nabi Malahat Awan
Jalil, and Ziauddin Sardar.
Anwaar Ahmad Farzana Firoz Maliha Noorani
Four literary prizes will be awarded at the KLF. The KLF Coca-Cola Prize goes to the best Anwar Masood Fasih Ahmed Malika Abbas
non-fiction book originally written in English by a Pakistani or Pakistan-origin foreign national, Anwar Shaoor Fatema Hassan Maniza Naqvi
published anywhere worldwide. The KLF Peace Prize is a joint project of the KLF, the Consulate Aqeel Abbas Jafri Fawzia Naqvi Mansoora Hassan
General of Germany in Karachi, and the Embassy of Germany in Islamabad. It goes to a fiction Aquila Ismail Fazal Rizvi Marjorie Husain
or non-fiction book that promotes peace, tolerance and international understanding, published Arfa Sayeda Zehra Fazlullah Pechuho Masood Ashar
anywhere worldwide in any language translated into English, and written by a Pakistani or a Arif Mahmood Feryal Ali-Gauhar Masood Lohar
Pakistani-origin foreign national residing anywhere worldwide, or any foreign national who is Arshad Faruqi Fouzia Saeed Masuma Hasan
a resident of Pakistan. The KLFEmbassy of France Prize promotes fiction originally written Arshad Mahmud Framji Minwalla Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib
in English. The author (a Pakistani or a Pakistani-origin foreign national residing anywhere Asghar Nadeem Syed Frieha Altaf Mehr Tarar
worldwide) of the best novel or short story collection, published anywhere worldwide or self- Ashok Chopra Ghazi Salahuddin Mehtab S. Karim
published, wins an official invitation for a fully-sponsored visit to the Paris Book Fair. The KLF Urdu Asif Farrukhi H. M. Naqvi Mirza Waheed
Fiction/Non-Fiction Prize is awarded to a poetry or prose book originally written in Urdu, published Asif Noorani Haajra Haider Moeen Faruqi
anywhere worldwide (or self-published) before December 2015, by a Pakistani or Pakistan-origin Asif Sinan Hafeez Jamali Mohammed Hanif
author living anywhere worldwide. Asma Ibrahim Harris Khalique Mubashir Ali Zaidi
See you at Beach Luxury on 5, 6, and 7 February! Dont register in advance: just turn up! And mark Attiya Dawood Hasan Zaidi Muhammad Athar Masood
your calendars for ILF on 15, 16, 17 April 2016 at the Lok Virsa Museum. Ayla Raza Haseeb Asif Mujahid Barelvi
Aziz Sohail Haseena Moin Muneeza Shamsie
Musharaf Hai Sabir Zafar Suleman Aqeel Khilji
Mustafa Arbab Sadaf Malatere Sumbul Khan
Mustansar Hussain Tarar Sadia Mahmood Syed Jaffar Ahmed
Nadeem F. Paracha Sadia Shepard Syed Nomanul Haq
Nadeem Mandviwalla Sadiah Pal Syed Nusrat Ali
Naila Mahmood Sadiqa Salahuddin Syed Salim Raza
Naima Dadabhoy Sahar Ansari Syed Turab Hussain
Najmuddin Shaikh Sahar Imdad Hussaini Tahera Hasan
Nandita Das Saif Mahmood Tahira Syed
Nasir Abbas Nayyar Saira Sheikh Taimur Khan Mumtaz
Nauman Naqvi Salman Khurshid Talat Hashimi
Naz Ikramullah Salman Sarwat Talea Zafar
Nazish Brohi Salman Tarik Kureshi Talha Mufti
Neelofar Abbasi Sameera Raja Talib Syed Karim
Niilofur Farrukh Sanam Saeed Tanveer Ahmed
Nimra Bucha Sania Saeed Tanveer Anjum
Nisar Ahmad Khuhro Sanjay Rajoura Tapu Javeri
Noor ul Huda Shah Sara Haider Tauqeer Muhajir
Noor Zaheer Sarmad Khoosat Tehmina Ahmed Inauguration of the
Nurayah Sheikh Nabi Seema Nusrat Tipu Sharif 7th Karachi Literature Festival/Jashn-e-Adab
Olivier Truc Sehba Sarwar Uzma Aslam Khan 10.00 a.m. Friday 5 February 2016
Omayr Aziz Saiyid Shah Muhammad Pirzada Vaqar Ahmed
Main Garden, Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
Omran Shafique Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman Vidya Shah
Osman Khalid Waheed Shahid Nadeem Wajahat Husain
Pervez Hoodbhoy Shahida Hassan Wajahat Masood 10.00 a.m. Arrival of Guests
Pirzada Qasim Shahnaz Wazir Ali Wasif Rizvi Performance by Asif Sinan
Quddus Mirza Shahram Azhar Wusatullah Khan
Qudsia Rahim Shakeel Adilzada Yaqoob Khan Bangash 10.30 a.m. Welcome Speeches by:
Rabia Garib Shakil Rizvi Yasmeen Lari Ameena Saiyid obe, Managing Director, Oxford University Press,
Rafeeq Ellias Shanaz Ramzi Zaheda Hina
and Founder/Director, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals,
Rafique Kathwari Sharif Awan Zarmeene Shah
and Co-Founder, Childrens Literature Festival
Rakhshanda Jalil Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Zeeshan Muhammed
Reema Abbasi Sharmila Farooqi Zehra Nigah Asif Farrukhi, Founder, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals
Riffat Alvi Shayma Saiyid Ziauddin Sardar
Rina Saeed Khan Shireen Haroun Zoe Viccaji 10.40 a.m. Speeches by Karachi Literature Festival Sponsors
Roohi Ahmed Sibtain Naqvi Zohaib Kazi
Ruchira Gupta Sono Khangharani Zubair Ahmed 11.20 a.m. Performance by Chaos Dance and Theatre
Saad Haroon Sonya Batla Zubeida Mustafa Performance by Amna Mawaz Khan
Saad Irfan Stefano Pontecorvo Zulfiqar Adil
Saba Khan Steffen Kopetzky
Sabiana Paoli Stuart Schaar
11.40 a.m. Awards of the KLF Best Fiction, Non-Fiction, and
Urdu Fiction/Non-Fiction Books

12.10 p.m. Keynote Speeches by:

Full-Day Fringe Events throughout the Festival:
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Author Signings Food Court Fahmida Riaz
Book Fair Media Rooms
1.00 p.m. Break
 Friday, 5 February 2016
Main Garden
2.30 p.m.3.30 p.m. The Dilemmas of the Transgender
Arfa Sayeda Zehra in conversation
with Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, author
of Me Laxmi, Me Hijra
3.45 p.m.4.45 p.m. No Borders between Performers
Sarmad Khoosat in conversation with
Nandita Das
5.00 p.m.6.00 p.m. Abhi to Main Jawan Hoon:
A Tribute to Malika Pukhraj
Tahira Syed and Arshad Mahmud
Moderator: Ayla Raza
6.15 p.m.7.15 p.m. Desi Stand-up Comedy
Sanjay Rajoura
7.30 p.m.9.30 p.m. Musical Evening by Vidya Shah and
Zoe Viccaji
Jasmine
Education and Reading:
Community and Parental
Involvement
Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, Fazlullah
Pechuho, Baela Raza Jamil,
Ameena Saiyid, Barbara Toye-Welsh,
and Shahnaz Wazir Ali
Moderator: Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman
Book Launch:
Cinema and Society: Film and Social
Change in Pakistan by Ali Khan and
Ali Nobil Ahmad
Ali Khan, Ali Nobil Ahmad,
and Hasan Zaidi
Moderator: Asif Noorani
Jilawatan sey Jungle tak:
Short Stories and TV Dramas
Asif Farrukhi in conversation with
Noor ul Huda Shah
Book Launch:
Train to Pakistan by
Khushwant Singh
Barbara D. Metcalf, Maniza Naqvi,
Asif Noorani, and Naz Ikramullah
Moderator: Babar Ayaz
Aquarius
Chap Tilak:
Amir Khusros Harvest of
Folk Songs
Saif Mahmood, Talat Hashimi,
Zaheda Hina, and Taimur Khan
Mumtaz
Moderator: Kausar S. Khan
Book Launch:
Intikhab-e-Kalam: Munir Niazi
and the Urdu Virsa series
Fahmida Riaz, Asghar Nadeem
Syed, and Fatema Hassan
Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi
Book Launch:
Cover Point: Impressions of
Leadership in Pakistan
by Jamsheed Marker
Jamsheed Marker and
Ishrat Hussain
Moderator: Aneesuddin Ahmed
Abad Kharaba
Harris Khalique and Asghar
Nadeem Syed in conversation
with Kishwar Naheed
Room 007
Book Launch:
In Another Country
by Rafique Kathwari
Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi
Book Launch:
Leaves from Lahore
by Mehr Tarar
Moderator: Syed Nusrat Ali
How Publishers Bring out the
Best
Andrea Berrini, Ameena Saiyid,
and Afzaal Ahmad
Moderator: Hoori Noorani
Fiction, Memory, and
Colonialism
H.M. Naqvi, Sadia Shepard,
Kamila Shamsie, and
Christoph Peters
Moderator: Framji Minwalla
Italy Reads Pakistan:
Award by Metropoli dAsia and
Consulate of Italy in Karachi
Stefano Pontecorvo,
Andrea Berrini, and H.M. Naqvi
Moderator: Bina Shah
Tulip/Red Terrace
Making an Artist
Nurayah Sheikh Nabi,
Zarmeene Shah, and
Mahreen Zuberi
Moderator: Saira Sheikh
The Art of Writing
Amra Ali, Marjorie Husain,
H.M. Naqvi, Quddus Mirza, and
Tauqeer Muhajir
Moderator: Maliha Noorani
Arte dItalia
Quddus Mirza in conversation
with Sabiana Paoli
Art as Part of Public
Engagement:
Lahore Biennale Foundation
Naima Dadabhoy, Fawzia Naqvi,
Qudsia Rahim, Roohi Ahmed, and
Osman Khalid Waheed
Moderator: Amra Ali
 Saturday, 6 February 2016

Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 Princess Tulip/Red Terrace

10.00 a.m.11.00 a.m. Rumi: Mystic and Poet Book Launch: Column say Urdu Book Launch: Using Technology Poetry in Art, Art in
Fahmida Riaz, Amar Sindhu, and Globalisation, Governance and Bloggers tak Borderlines by to Deliver Quality Poetry
Bari Mian Growth by Ishrat Husain Wusatullah Khan, Sehba Sarwar Education Kiran Aman, Sonya
Moderator: Syed Nomanul Haq Syed Salim Raza and Ishrat Husain Asghar Nadeem Syed, Sehba Sarwar, Kasim Kasuri and Batla, Asif Noorani, and
Moderator: Vaqar Ahmed Masood Ashar, Zaheda Tehmina Ahmed, Talea Zafar Bina Sarkar
Hina, Amar Jaleel, and Noor Zaheer, and Moderator: Rabia Garib Moderator:
Mubashir Ali Zaidi Naila Mahmood Faraz Maqsood Hamidi
Moderator: Moderator:
Wajahat Masood Ghazi Salahuddin
11.15 a.m.12.15 p.m. Samjhotay ki Chadar Book Launch: Writing History Tharparkar: Fostering Innovation Photography in the
Rakhshanda Jalil in conversation with This Unquiet Land by Barkha Dutt Nauman Naqvi in Desert Woes and Creativity Age of Art
Zehra Nigah Ghazi Salahuddin in conversation with conversation with Sono Khangharani, through Protection of Rafeeq Ellias,
Barkha Dutt Barbara D. Metcalf Tanveer Ahmed, and Intellectual Property Amean J., Tapu Javeri,
Masood Lohar Amar Naseer, Arif Mahmood, and
Moderator: Ameena Saiyid, and Emaan Rana
Sadiqa Salahuddin Babar Ayaz Moderator:
Moderator: Tehmina Ahmed
Syed Nusrat Ali
12.30 p.m.1.30 p.m. From Life to Reel Transgender Rights: Are there Any? Agay Samandar Hay Announcement of the Our History, Our Chughtai Revisited
Nandita Das, Asif Noorani, and Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, In conversation with KLF Peace Prize Winner Heritage, Our Inam Khawaja in
Shahid Nadeem Khawar Mumtaz, Bindiya Rana, and Intizar Husain Responsibility conversation with
Moderator: Hasan Zaidi Reema Abbasi Rakhshanda Jalil, and Asma Ibrahim and Quddus Mirza
Moderator: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Masood Ashar Yasmeen Lari
Moderator: Asif Farrukhi
1.45 p.m.2.45 p.m. Safar aur Kahani Mother Tongue: Medium of Laughter, the Best Diversity and Dissent Nayee Awazain (New Sibtain Manzil: Life and
Asghar Nadeem Syed Instruction and Learning Medicine Hafeez Jamali in Voices in Urdu Writing) Times of Sadequain
in conversation with Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, Saad Haroon and conversation with Ali Akbar Natiq, Mustafa A Conversation
Mustansar Hussain Tarar Farzana, Zubeida Mustafa, and Sanjay Rajoura Ziauddin Sardar Arbab, and Inaam between Three
Barbara Toye-Welsh Moderator: Nadeem Generations
Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil Nadeem F. Paracha Moderator: Syed Sultan Ahmed
Tanveer Anjum Naqvi and Sibtain Naqvi
 Saturday, 6 February 2016
Main Garden
3.00 p.m.4.00 p.m. Pakistani Cinema Strikes Back
Nimra Bucha, Sania Saeed,
Farjad Nabi, Hashim Raza,
Nadeem Mandviwalla, and Tipu Sharif
Moderator: Shanaz Ramzi
4.15 p.m.5.15 p.m. The Oscar Lady
Omayr Aziz Saiyid in conversation with
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
including clips of her films
5.30 p.m.6.30 p.m. Aik Sham Anwar Masood kay Naam
6.45 p.m.8.45 p.m. 6.45 p.m.9.15 p.m.
Manto, the Movie:
Screening followed by Q&A
Sarmad Khoosat, Nimra Bucha,
Sania Saeed, Talha Mufti, and
Shahid Nadeem
Jasmine
Words and Images of the Day
Olivier Truc, Barkha Dutt, Farhan
Bokhari, and Fasih Ahmed
Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin
Of Love in a Place of War
Mohammed Hanif in conversation with
Mirza Waheed
Mushaira:
Anwar Shaoor, Kishwar Naheed,
Sahar Ansari, Imdad Hussaini, Pirzada
Qasim, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Sabir Zafar,
Sahar Imdad Hussaini, Fatema Hassan,
Shahida Hassan, Khwaja Razi Haider,
Tanveer Anjum, Attiya Dawood, Ajmal
Siraj, Harris Khalique, Aqeel Abbas
Jafri, Inaam Nadeem, Kashif Hussain
Ghayar, Zulfiqar Adil, Noor ul Huda
Shah and Salman Sarwat
Nizamat: Ambareen Haseeb Amber
Aquarius
Sarkari Urdu, Awami Urdu: The
Official Status of Urdu
Arfa Sayeda Zehra,
Masood Ashar, and
Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Moderator: Fatema Hassan
Book Launch:
The Resourceful Fakirs by
F. S. Aijazuddin
Syed Jaffar Ahmed in
conversation with
F.S. Aijazuddin
Book Launch:
The Other Side of the Mountain
by Salman Khurshid
Ghazi Salahuddin in conversation
with Salman Khurshid
Book Launch:
Risk by Steffen Kopetzky
Mohammed Hanif
in conversation with
Steffen Kopetzky
Room 007
Book Launch:
Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider
and Witness in a Turbulent Age
by Stuart Schaar
Stuart Schaar and Pervez
Hoodbhoy
Moderator: Nauman Naqvi
Whats Liberal about the Liberal
Arts
Aaron Mulvany, Barbara D.
Metcalf, and Aliya Iqbal Naqvi
Moderator: Framji Minwalla
Busting Myths:
What is Versus What We are Told
Pervez Hoodbhoy and
Nadeem F. Paracha
Moderator: Yaqoob Khan Bangash
Tulip/Red Terrace
Locating Art
Saba Khan, Quddus Mirza,
Seema Nusrat, Adeela Suleman,
Zeeshan Muhammed, and
Suleman Aqeel Khilji
Moderator: Sumbul Khan
Different Strokes
Brigitta Blaha, Mansoora Hassan,
Stefan Winkler, Fatema Sultan,
and Naz Ikramullah
Moderator: Sameera Raja
Ismail ka Urdu Sheher
Sara Haider, Saad Irfan, Zohaib
Kazi, Kamal Khan, Anas Riasat,
Omran Shafique, and Zoe Viccaji
Moderator: Ali Safina
 Sunday, 7 February 2016
Main Garden
10.00 a.m.11.00 a.m. Kashmir: The Never-ending Conflict
Mirza Waheed, Barkha Dutt,
Jean-Luc Racine, and Rafique Kathwari
Moderator: Farhan Bokhari
11.15 a.m.12.15 p.m. Love, Longing, and Exile
Shah Muhammad Pirzada in
conversation with Amar Jaleel
12.30 p.m.1.30 p.m. UBL Literary Excellence Awards
Asghar Nadeem Syed, Arfa Sayeda
Zehra, Anwaar Ahmad, Kishwar
Naheed, Ghazi Salahuddin, Asif
Farrukhi, Framji Minwalla, and Wajahat
Husain
Moderator: Ali Habib
1.45 p.m.2.45 p.m. Book Launch by Lifebuoy:
28 Days
Tapu Javeri, Arif Mahmood,
Malika Abbas, Tahera Hasan,
Sadiah Pal, and Shakil Rizvi
Moderator: Sanam Saeed
Jasmine
Towards a Better Pakistan
Screenings of Short Films followed
by Award Ceremony
Moderator: Pervez Hoodbhoy
South Asian English Fiction:
Where Mythology and History Meet
Uzma Aslam Khan, Kamila Shamsie,
Bina Shah, and Mirza Waheed
Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie
The White Stripe on the
National Flag
Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman, Olivier Truc,
Reema Abbasi, Sono Khangharani, and
John OBrien
Moderator: Nazish Brohi
Aid, Trade, and Inter-State Relations
Syed Salim Raza, Najmuddin Shaikh,
and Masuma Hasan
Moderator: Vaqar Ahmed
Aquarius
Facing Wrongs and Seeking
Rights:
The Female Perspective
Ruchira Gupta, Fouzia Saeed, and
Feryal Ali-Gauhar,
Moderator:
Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman
Emigres and Exile:
A Tribute to Abdullah Hussain
H. M. Naqvi, Masood Ashar,
Irfan Javed, Afzaal Ahmad, and
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Moderator: Asif Farrukhi
Stories from the Heart,
Reflections of Young Leaders
Book Launch:
Kab Mehkey gi Fassal e Gul by
Anis Haroon
Anis Haroon, Amar Sindhu, Syed
Jaffar Ahmed, and Azra Abbas
Moderator: Mahtab Akbar Rashdi
Book Launch:
The Editorials of Anwer Pirzado
(Musharaf Era) by Anwer Pirzado
Aijaz Mangi and Mahtab Akbar
Rashdi
Moderator: Amar Pirzada
Room 007 Tulip/Red Terrace
Pakistan: Modernity and Documentaries Workshop
Postcoloniality Rafeeq Ellias
Nauman Naqvi and
Shahram Azhar
Moderator: Hafeez Jamali
Book Launch: Art as Witness to Memory and
Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadeed Erasure:
by Nasir Abbas Nayyar Karachi Biennale 2017
Aqeel Abbas Jafri in conversation Camilla Hadi Chaudhary,
with Nasir Abbas Nayyar Niilofur Farrukh, and
Asma Ibrahim
Book Launch: Moderator: Aquila Ismail
A Princely Affair: Accession and
Integration of the Princely States
of Pakistan, 19471955
by Yaqoob Khan Bangash
Yaqoob Khan Bangash and
Barbara D. Metcalf
Moderator: Hafeez Jamali
Book Launch: The Country of Last Things
Candles in the Dark: Successful Huma Mulji in conversation with
Organizations in Pakistans Weak Noorjehan Bilgrami
Institutional Environment
by Mahmood Ayub and
Turab Hussain
Javaid Ahmed, Shahnaz Wazir Ali,
Mahmood Ayub, and Syed Turab
Hussain
Moderator: Sibtain Naqvi
Poets Corner: Beyond Borders
English Mushaira Haajra Haider, Deborah Robinson,
Shireen Haroun, Moeen Faruqi, and Fazal Rizvi
Farida Faizullah, Rafique Moderator: Aziz Sohail
Kathwari, Harris Khalique, and
Bilal Hamid
Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi
 Sunday, 7 February 2016

Main Garden Jasmine Aquarius Room 007 Princess Tulip/Red Terrace

3.00 p.m.4.00 p.m. Book Launch: River of Flesh and Other Stories: The Idhar Urdu, Udhar Book Launch: Screening of The Art of Now
Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Prostituted Woman in Indian Short Urdu, Kidher Urdu?: Water in the Wilderness Documentary Film Fawzia Naqvi in
Insiders Account of Pakistans Fiction and As if Women Matter: The Urdu in India and by Mehjabeen Mast Qalandar, conversation with
Foreign Relations Including Details of Essential Gloria Steinem Reader Pakistan Abidi-Habib, Rina directed by Till Passow, Aisha Khalid and
the Kashmir Framework by Khurshid Shayma Saiyid in conversation with Saif Mahmood and Saeed Khan, and followed by Q&A with Imran Qureshi
Mahmud Kasuri the anthologies editor, Ruchira Gupta Arfa Sayeda Zehra Richard Garstang the director
Barkha Dutt, Khurshid Mahmud Moderator: Bari Mian Aaron Mulvany,
Kasuri, Ishrat Husain, and Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib,
Najmuddin Shaikh and Rina Saeed Khan
Moderator: F.S. Aijazuddin Moderators:
Sono Khanghrani and
Masood Lohar
4.15 p.m.5.15 p.m. Omayr Aziz Saiyid in conversation with Compressed Tales: Revisiting the Islamic Science: Art and Alternate
Hina Rabbani Khar Urdu Digests and IqbalDante Question The Chimera that Spaces
Digest Writers Andrea Berrini and Never Was Ejaz Ahed, Zubair
Shakeel Adilzada, Syed Nomanul Haq Ziauddin Sardar, Ahmed, Riffat Alvi,
Neelofar Abbasi, Moderator: Sadia Mahmood, Musharaf Hai, and
Haseena Moin, Afzal Ahmed Syed Ali Usman Qasmi, and Sharmila Farooqi
Haseeb Asif, Olivier Truc, Rina Saeed Khan Moderator:
Noor ul Huda Shah, and Moderator: Fawzia Naqvi
Mubashir Ali Zaidi Ehsan Masood
Moderator: Zaheda Hina
5.30 p.m.6.30 p.m. What Keeps Us Apart?: Higher Learning or the Wholesaling Book Launch: Words and Music on Meeting Points,
IndiaPakistan Relations of Degrees? Kaghazi hay Pairahan the Page: 100 Years Melting Pots
Salman Khurshid, Jamsheed Marker, Wasif Rizvi, Ishrat Husain, Talib Syed by Ismat Chughtai of Musical Literature Frieha Altaf,
Hina Rabbani Khar, and Karim, and Shahnaz Wazir Ali translated by Noor Publishing Sonya Batla,
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Zaheer Arshad Mahmud, Arshad Faruqi,
Moderator: Mehtab S. Karim
Moderator: F.S. Aijazuddin Khawar Mumtaz, Muhammad Athar and Sadaf Malatere
Rakhshanda Jalil, Noor Masood, Vidya Shah, Moderator:
Zaheer, and and Sharif Awan Zarmeene Shah
Saif Mahmood Moderator:
Moderator: Malahat Awan
Arfa Sayeda Zehra
6.45 p.m.7.45 p.m. Closing Ceremony:
Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi
Keynote Speeches by:
Ziauddin Sardar and
Rakhshanda Jalil

8.00 p.m.9.00 p.m. Stand-up Comedy by Saad Haroon

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the Universitys objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by
publishing worldwide. OUP Pakistan is committed to promoting the reading culture
and to improving the intellectual content of life in Pakistan. It has an extensive school
and college textbook publishing programme which addresses the need for books that
are both of high quality and specific to the environment. It has gained a reputation for
publishing well-researched academic and general books which are considered to be
authoritative and definitive works on Pakistan.

*Every effort will be made to adhere to this programme. However, the KLF organizers reserve the
right to change the programme at any time.