Friday, 5 February 2016 Sunday, 7 February 2016 Saturday, 6 February 2016

Inauguration of the 7th Karachi Literature Festival/Jashn-e-Adab 10.00 a.m. Friday 5 February 2016 Main Garden, Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi

5, 6, and 7 February 2016 10.00 a.m. Arrival of Guests Timings: 10 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. The Festival is free and open to all. Performance by Asif Sinan 10.30 a.m. Welcome Speeches by: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi Ameena Saiyid obe, Managing Director, Oxford University For special privileges, register as a Press, and Founder/Director, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Bringing together international and Delegate. For information, visit Festivals, and Co-Founder, Children’s Literature Festival Pakistani writers to promote reading www.karachiliteraturefestival.org Asif Farrukhi, Founder, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals and showcase writing at its best 10.40 a.m. Speeches by Karachi Literature Festival Sponsors #KhiLF 11.20 a.m. Performance by Chao’s Dance and Theatre Performance by Amna Mawaz Khan

Parking available at UBL parking area Gold sponsors: 11.40 a.m. Awards of the KLF Best Fiction, Non-Fiction, and (opposite US Consulate) and KPT parking area Urdu Fiction/Non-Fiction Books (opposite Custom House). 12.10 p.m. Keynote Speeches by: Pervez Hoodbhoy and Fahmida Riaz Shuttle services available from parking areas to Beach Luxury Hotel and back. 1.00 p.m. Break

Gold sponsors: Friday, 5 February 2016 2.30 p.m.–3.30 p.m. AQUARIUS HALL Edited by Ali Khan and Ali Nobil 5.00 p.m.–6.00 p.m. ROOM 007 AQUARIUS HALL MAIN GARDEN Chap Tilak: Amir Khusro’s Ahmad MAIN GARDEN Fiction, Memory, and Abad Kharaba The Dilemmas of the Transgender Harvest of Folk Songs Ali Khan, Ali Nobil Ahmad, and Abhi to Main Jawan Hoon: Colonialism Harris Khalique and Asghar Arfa Sayeda Zehra in Talat Hashimi, Zaheda Hina, and Hasan Zaidi A Tribute to Malika Pukhraj H.M. Naqvi, Sadia Shepard, Nadeem Syed in conversation conversation with Laxmi Narayan Taimur Khan Mumtaz Moderator: Asif Noorani Tahira Syed and Arshad Mahmud Kamila Shamsie, and with Kishwar Naheed Tripathi, author of Me Laxmi, Moderator: Kausar S. Khan AQUARIUS HALL Moderator: Ayla Raza Christoph Peters ROOM 007 Me Hijra ROOM 007 Book Launch: Intikhab-e-Kalam: JASMINE HALL Moderator: Framji Minwalla Italy Reads Pakistan: Award by JASMINE HALL Book Launch: In Another Country Munir Niazi and the Urdu Virsa Jilawatan sey Jungle tak: 6.15 p.m.–7.15 p.m. Metropoli d’Asia and Consulate of Italy in Karachi Education and Reading: by Rafique Kathwari series Short Stories and TV Dramas MAIN GARDEN Stefano Pontecorvo, Community and Parental Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi Fahmida Riaz, Asghar Nadeem Asif Farrukhi in conversation with Desi Stand-up Comedy by Involvement Syed, and Fatema Hassan Noor ul Huda Shah Sanjay Rajoura Andrea Berrini, and H.M. Naqvi Book Launch: Leaves from Lahore Moderator: Bina Shah Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, Fazlullah by Mehr Tarar Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi AQUARIUS HALL JASMINE HALL ROOM 007 Pechuho, Baela Raza Jamil, Moderator: Syed Nusrat Ali Book Launch: Cover Point: Book Launch: Train to Pakistan 7.30 p.m.–9.30 p.m. Ameena Saiyid, Barbara How Publishers Bring out Impressions of Leadership in by Khushwant Singh MAIN GARDEN 3.45 p.m.–4.45 p.m. Toye-Welsh, and Shahnaz the Best Pakistan by Jamsheed Marker Barbara D. Metcalf, Musical Evening by Vidya Shah Wazir Ali JASMINE HALL Andrea Berrini, Ameena Saiyid, Jamsheed Marker and Ishrat Maniza Naqvi, Asif Noorani, and and Zoe Viccaji Moderator: Shaheen Book Launch: Cinema and Society: and Afzaal Ahmad Hussain Naz Ikramullah Attiq-ur-Rahman Film and Social Change in Pakistan Moderator: Hoori Noorani Moderator: Aneesuddin Ahmed Moderator: Babar Ayaz

Saturday, 6 February 2016 10.00 a.m.–11.00 a.m. 11.15 a.m.–12.15 p.m. Hussain Tarar, Afzal Ahmed Syed, AQUARIUS HALL ROOM 007 AQUARIUS HALL MAIN GARDEN MAIN GARDEN Fahmida Riaz, Zehra Nigah, and Laughter, the Best Medicine Book Launch: Eqbal Ahmad: Book Launch: Risk by Steffen Rumi: Mystic and Poet Samjhotay ki Chadar Masood Ashar Saad Haroon and Sanjay Rajoura Critical Outsider and Witness in a Kopetzky Mohammed Hanif in conversation Fahmida Riaz, Amar Sindhu, Saif Mahmood in conversation Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Moderator: Nadeem F. Paracha Turbulent Age by Stuart Schaar with Steffen Kopetzky and Bari Mian with Zehra Nigah JASMINE HALL ROOM 007 Stuart Schaar and Pervez Transgender Rights: Diversity and Dissent Hoodbhoy ROOM 007 Moderator: Syed Nomanul Haq JASMINE HALL Busting Myths: What is Versus Are there Any? Moderator: Nauman Naqvi JASMINE HALL Book Launch: This Unquiet Land Hafeez Jamali in conversation What We are Told Book Launch: Globalisation, by Barkha Dutt Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, with Ziauddin Sardar 4.15 p.m.–5.15 p.m. Pervez Hoodbhoy and Governance and Growth Ghazi Salahuddin in conversation Khawar Mumtaz, Bindiya Rana, PRINCESS ROOM MAIN GARDEN Nadeem F. Paracha by Ishrat Husain with Barkha Dutt and Reema Abbasi Nayee Awazain (New Voices in The Oscar Lady: Omayr Aziz Moderator: Yaqoob Khan Bangash Moderator: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Urdu Writing) Syed Salim Raza and AQUARIUS HALL Saiyid in conversation with 6.45 p.m.–8.45 p.m. Ishrat Husain Writing History ROOM 007 Ali Akbar Natiq, Mustafa Arbab, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy JASMINE HALL Announcement of the KLF Peace and Inaam Nadeem Moderator: Vaqar Ahmed Nauman Naqvi in conversation including clips of her films Mushaira: Anwar Shaoor, Kishwar Moderator: Tanveer Anjum AQUARIUS HALL with Barbara D. Metcalf Prize Winner AQUARIUS HALL Naheed, Sahar Ansari, Imdad Column say Urdu Bloggers tak ROOM 007 PRINCESS ROOM 3.00 p.m.–4.00 p.m. Book Launch: The Resourceful Hussaini, Pirzada Qasim, Afzal Wusatullah Khan, Masood Ashar, Tharparkar: Desert Woes Our History, Our Heritage, MAIN GARDEN Fakirs by F. S. Aijazuddin Ahmed Syed, Sabir Zafar, Sahar Asghar Nadeem Syed, Sono Khangharani, Tanveer Our Responsibility Pakistani Cinema Strikes Back Syed Jaffar Ahmed in conversation Imdad Hussaini, Fatema Hassan, Zaheda Hina, Amar Jaleel, and Ahmed, and Masood Lohar Asma Ibrahim and Yasmeen Lari Nimra Bucha, Sania Saeed, Farjad with F.S. Aijazuddin Shahida Hassan, Khwaja Razi Haider, Tanveer Anjum, Attiya Mubashir Ali Zaidi Moderator: Sadiqa Salahuddin 1.45 p.m.–2.45 p.m. Nabi, Hashim Raza, Nadeem Book Launch: The Other Side of Moderator: Wajahat Masood PRINCESS ROOM the Mountain by Salman Khurshid Dawood, Ajmal Siraj, Harris MAIN GARDEN Mandviwalla, and Tipu Sharif ROOM 007 Fostering Innovation and Ghazi Salahuddin in conversation Khalique, Aqeel Abbas Jafri, Safar aur Kahani Moderator: Shanaz Ramzi Inaam Nadeem, Kashif Hussain Book Launch: Borderlines by Creativity through Protection of with Salman Khurshid Asghar Nadeem Syed in JASMINE HALL Ghayar, Zulfiqar Adil, Noor ul Sehba Sarwar Intellectual Property conversation with Mustansar Words and Images of the Day ROOM 007 Huda Shah, and Salman Sarwat Amar Naseer, Ameena Saiyid, and What’s Liberal about the Sehba Sarwar, Tehmina Ahmed, Hussain Tarar Olivier Truc, Barkha Dutt, Nizamat: Ambareen Haseeb Noor Zaheer, and Naila Mahmood Babar Ayaz Liberal Arts JASMINE HALL Farhan Bokhari, and Fasih Ahmed Amber Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin Moderator: Syed Nusrat Ali Aaron Mulvany, Barbara D. Mother Tongue: Medium of Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin 6.45 p.m.–9.15 p.m. Metcalf, and Aliya Iqbal Naqvi PRINCESS ROOM 12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m. Instruction and Learning AQUARIUS HALL Using Technology to Deliver Moderator: Framji Minwalla MAIN GARDEN MAIN GARDEN Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, Sarkari Urdu, Awami Urdu: Manto, the Movie: Screening Quality Education A Story is a Vagabond: Farzana Firoz, Zubeida Mustafa, The Official Status of Urdu 5.30 p.m.–6.30 p.m. followed by Q&A Kasim Kasuri and Talea Zafar A Tribute to Intizar Husain and Barbara Toye-Welsh Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Masood MAIN GARDEN Sarmad Khoosat, Nimra Bucha, Moderator: Rabia Garib Ameena Saiyid, Kishwar Naheed, Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil Ashar, and Nasir Abbas Nayyar Aik Sham Anwar Masood kay Sania Saeed, Talha Mufti, and Asghar Nadeem Syed, Mustansar Moderator: Fatema Hassan Naam Shahid Nadeem Sunday, 7 February 2016 10.00 a.m.–11.00 a.m. AQUARIUS HALL AQUARIUS HALL ROOM 007 Aaron Mulvany, Mehjabeen Salman Khurshid, Jamsheed MAIN GARDEN Emigres and Exile: A Tribute to Stories from the Heart, Poets’ Corner: English Mushaira Abidi-Habib, and Rina Saeed Khan Marker, and Hina Rabbani Khar Kashmir: The Never-ending Abdullah Hussain Reflections of Young Leaders Shireen Haroun, Moeen Faruqi, Moderators: Sono Khanghrani and Moderator: F.S. Aijazuddin Conflict H. M. Naqvi, Masood Ashar, ROOM 007 Farida Faizullah, Rafique Masood Lohar JASMINE HALL Barkha Dutt, Jean-Luc Racine, Irfan Javed, Afzaal Ahmad, and Book Launch: Candles in the Kathwari, Harris Khalique, and PRINCESS ROOM Higher Learning or the Bilal Hamid and Rafique Kathwari Mustansar Hussain Tarar Dark: Successful Organizations Screening of Documentary Film Wholesaling of Degrees? in Pakistan’s Weak Institutional Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi ‘Mast Qalandar’, directed by Till Moderator: Farhan Bokhari Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Wasif Rizvi, Ishrat Husain, Environment by Mahmood Ayub Passow, followed by Q&A with JASMINE HALL ROOM 007 3.00 p.m.–4.00 p.m. Talib Syed Karim, and and Turab Hussain the director Towards a Better Pakistan— Book Launch: Urdu Adab ki MAIN GARDEN Shahnaz Wazir Ali Javaid Ahmed, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Screenings of Short Films Tashkeel e Jadeed by Nasir Abbas Book Launch: Neither a Hawk 4.15 p.m.–5.15 p.m. Moderator: Mehtab S. Karim Mahmood Ayub, and Syed Turab followed by Award Ceremony Nayyar nor a Dove: An Insider’s Account MAIN GARDEN AQUARIUS HALL Hussain Moderator: Pervez Hoodbhoy Aqeel Abbas Jafri in conversation of Pakistan’s Foreign Relations Omayr Aziz Saiyid in conversation Book Launch: Kaghazi hay with Nasir Abbas Nayyar Moderator: Sibtain Naqvi Pairahan by Ismat Chughtai AQUARIUS HALL Including Details of the Kashmir with Hina Rabbani Khar Book Launch: A Princely Affair: translated by Noor Zaheer Facing Wrongs and Seeking 1.45 p.m.–2.45 p.m. Framework by Khurshid Mahmud AQUARIUS HALL Accession and Integration of the Kasuri Khawar Mumtaz, Noor Zaheer, Rights: The Female Perspective MAIN GARDEN Compressed Tales: Urdu Digests Princely States of Pakistan, Barkha Dutt, Khurshid Mahmud and Saif Mahmood Ruchira Gupta, Fouzia Saeed, and Book Launch by Lifebuoy: 28 Days and Digest Writers 1947–1955 by Yaqoob Khan Kasuri, Ishrat Husain, and Moderator: Arfa Sayeda Zehra Feryal Ali-Gauhar, Tapu Javeri, Arif Mahmood, Shakeel Adilzada, Neelofar Bangash Najmuddin Shaikh Abbasi, Haseena Moin, Haseeb ROOM 007 Moderator: Shaheen Malika Abbas, Tahera Hasan, Yaqoob Khan Bangash and Moderator: F.S. Aijazuddin Asif, Olivier Truc, Noor ul Huda Words and Music on the Page: Attiq-ur-Rahman Sadiah Pal, and Shakil Rizvi Barbara D. Metcalf Moderator: Sanam Saeed JASMINE HALL Shah, and Mubashir Ali Zaidi 100 Years of Musical Literature ROOM 007 River of Flesh and Other Stories: Moderator: Hafeez Jamali JASMINE HALL Moderator: Zaheda Hina Publishing Pakistan: Modernity and The Prostituted Woman in Indian 12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m. Aid, Trade, and Inter-State ROOM 007 Arshad Mahmud, Muhammad Postcoloniality Short Fiction and As if Women Athar Masood, Vidya Shah, and MAIN GARDEN Relations Revisiting the Iqbal–Dante Nauman Naqvi and Shahram Matter: The Essential Gloria Question Sharif Awan Azhar UBL Literary Excellence Awards Syed Salim Raza, Najmuddin Steinem Reader Shaikh, and Masuma Hasan Andrea Berrini and Moderator: Malahat Awan Moderator: Hafeez Jamali Asghar Nadeem Syed, Arfa Shayma Saiyid in conversation Sayeda Zehra, Anwaar Ahmad, Moderator: Vaqar Ahmed Syed Nomanul Haq 6.45 p.m.–7.45 p.m. 11.15 a.m.–12.15 p.m. with the anthologies’ editor, Moderator: Afzal Ahmed Syed Kishwar Naheed, Ghazi AQUARIUS HALL Ruchira Gupta MAIN GARDEN MAIN GARDEN Salahuddin, Asif Farrukhi, Framji Book Launch: Kab Mehkey gi PRINCESS ROOM Closing Ceremony: AQUARIUS HALL Islamic Science: The Chimera that Love, Longing, and Exile Minwalla, Ameena Saiyid, and Fassal e Gul by Anis Haroon Idhar Urdu, Udhar Urdu, Kidher Speeches by Ameena Saiyid and Never Was Shah Muhammad Pirzada in Wajahat Husain Anis Haroon, Amar Sindhu, Syed Urdu?: Urdu in India and Pakistan Asif Farrukhi Ziauddin Sardar, Sadia Mahmood, conversation with Amar Jaleel Moderator: Ali Habib Jaffar Ahmed, and Azra Abbas Saif Mahmood and Arfa Sayeda Keynote Speeches by: Ziauddin Ali Usman Qasmi, and Rina Saeed JASMINE HALL JASMINE HALL Moderator: Mahtab Akbar Rashdi Zehra Sardar and Arfa Sayeda Zehra South Asian English Fiction: Khan The White Stripe on the Book Launch: The Editorials of Moderator: Bari Mian 8.00 p.m.–9.00 p.m. Where Mythology and History National Flag Anwer Pirzado (Musharaf Era) by Moderator: Ehsan Masood ROOM 007 MAIN GARDEN Meet Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rahman, Anwer Pirzado 5.30 p.m.–6.30 p.m. Book Launch: Water in the Stand-up Comedy by Saad Haroon Uzma Aslam Khan, Kamila Olivier Truc, Reema Abbasi, Sono Aijaz Mangi and Mahtab Akbar Wilderness by Mehjabeen MAIN GARDEN Shamsie, and Bina Shah Khangharani, and John O’Brien Rashdi Abidi-Habib, Rina Saeed Khan, What Keeps Us Apart?: Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie Moderator: Nazish Brohi Moderator: Amar Pirzada and Richard Garstang India–Pakistan Relations * Eve ry effort will be made to adhere to this programme. However, the KLF organizers reserve the right to change the programme at any time.