8 Inauguration of the 8th Karachi Literature Festival/Jashn-e-Adab 5.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Friday 10 February 2017 Main Garden, Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi 10, 11, and 12 February 2017 Arrival of Guests 10 February: 5 p.m. to 8.45 p.m. The Festival is free and open to all. Performance by Asif Sinan 11 February: 10 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. Welcome Speeches by: 12 February: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 8 Ameena Saiyid obe, Managing Director, Oxford University Press, Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi For special privileges, register as a and Founder/Director, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals, Delegate. For information, visit and Co-Founder, Children’s Literature Festival Bringing together international and www.karachiliteraturefestival.org Asif Farrukhi, Founder, Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals Pakistani writers to promote reading Speeches by Festival Sponsors and showcase writing at its best #KhiLF Awards of the KLF Best Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Urdu Literature Parking available at UBL parking area Keynote Speeches by: (opposite US Consulate) and KPT parking area Co-sponsors: Ayesha Jalal (opposite Custom House). Mustansar Hussain Tarar Shuttle services available from parking areas Performance by Shayma Saiyid to Beach Luxury Hotel and back.

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Saturday 11 February 2017 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Urdu Nu Kia Hua? Pakistan: Fragile State or Book Launch: Phool aur Shabnam Ageless Poetry and Darya kay Saath Saath Mushaira Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Resilient Nation? Tum Kabeer and Bushra Ansari in Graceful Wit Zaheda Hina in Nizamat: Ambareen Hasib Amber Ali Akbar Natiq, and Mian Raza Rabbani, Hamid Qila e Farmoshi conversation with Shabnam Chair: Mushtaq Ahmad conversation with Kishwar Naheed, Anwar Shaoor, Fahmida Riaz, Pirzada

n arde Afzal Ahmed Syed Khan, Nasira Iqbal, and by Fahmida Riaz Yousfi Mustansar Hussain Tarar Qasim, Imdad Hussaini, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Nasim Syed, G Moderator: Saif Mahmood Ahmed Rashid Fahmida Riaz Zehra Nigah Humaira Rahman, Shahida Hassan, Fatema Hassan,

ain Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Moderator: Saif Mahmood Moderator: Asif Farrukhi Khwaja Razi Haider, Tanveer Anjum, Aqeel Abbas M Jafri, Harris Khalique, Inaam Nadeem, Ali Akbar Natiq, Peerzada Salman, Kashif Ghayar, and Bushra Iqbal-Malik 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Bringing the Past into the Nayee Awazain: Book Launch: Book Launch: Book Launch: UBL Literary Excellence Rahm: A Nuanced Present New Urdu Writers Sadequain and the Culture of How Pakistan Got Divided by Crimson Papers: Reflections Awards Pakistani Interpretation of Framji Minwalla and Syed Kashif Raza, Rafaqat Enlightenment by Akbar Naqvi Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali on Struggle, Suffering and Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Nomanul Haq Hayat, and Saima Iram Nasreen Askari and Saquib Hanif Ilhan Niaz, Aquila Ismail, Creativity in Pakistan by Measure’ written and produced in conversation with Moderator: Mohammed Hanif Moderator: Sibtain Naqvi Shafiq ur Rahman, and Harris Khalique by Mahmood Jamal Jasmine Ayesha Jalal Zafar Hilaly Christina Oesterheld, Arif Film Screening followed by Q&A Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin Hasan, and Harris Khalique Seerat Jafri, Sajid Hasan, and Moderator: Ghazi Salahuddin Mahmood Jamal 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 6.15 p.m. Minorities in Pakistan’s Legal Book Launch: The Party Worker Book Launch: Fiction: The World Over Zara Hut Kay Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist System by Omar Shahid Hamid August Voices by Sudheendra Bina Shah, Andrea Berrini, Mirza Zarrar Khuhro, Wusat Ullah Khan, Documentary Screening followed by Discussion Maliha Zia, Hilda Saeed, Ashothama Omar Shahid Hamid and Kulkarni Waheed, Ibrahim Waheed Ogaru, and Mubashir Zaidi Arif Hasan, Faisal Siddiqui, Anwar Rashid, and Lohano, Jamal Janjua, and Shaqaib Preeti Shenoy Sudheendra Kulkarni and and Paul Veyret Moderator: Nadeem F. Paracha Mahera Omar

quariu s Lila Moderator: Bilal Tanweer Matthew A. Cook Moderator: Sehba Sarwar Moderator: Aquila Ismail A Moderator: Syed Jaffar Ahmed Presented by: VOICE & ACCOUNTABILITY PROGRAMME 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Sindh Speaks Book Launch: Announcement of the Book Launch: Roshan Khayali: A Afghanistan-Pakistan: Of Love in a Place of Book Launch: Chair: Noor ul Huda Shah Nobody Killed Her by KLF Peace Prize Winner Teesra Qadam by Homage to Sibte Hasan Illusions and Realities War Erotext: Desire, Disease, Delusion, Dream, Zaffar Junejo, Akash Sabyn Javeri Nasira Zuberi Syed Jaffar Ahmed and Najmuddin Shaikh Mohammed Hanif in Downpour by Sudeep Sen Ansari, Ahmed Solangi, Sabyn Javeri, Fatema Hassan, Azra Hoori Noorani in conversation with conversation with Sudeep Sen Maniza Naqvi, and Abbas, and Nasira Zuberi Ahmed Rashid Mirza Waheed 00 7 Manzoor Kohyar, and Moderator: Naila Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi

Saif Samejo Ayesha Tammy Haq Moderator: Ambareen Mahmood Voices by the Seashore

oo m Moderator: Amar Sindhu Moderator: Hasib Amber Farida Faizullah, Ibrahim Waheed Ogaru, R Anita M. Weiss Sadarat: Pirzada Qasim Harris Khalique, Mamang Dai, Moeen Faruqi, Sadaf Halai, Sehba Sarwar, Shandana Minhas, Shireen Haroun, and Sudeep Sen Moderator: Salman Tarik Kureshi 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. Italy Reads Pakistan Award Book Launch: International, Regional,and Book Launch: The Big Karachi Novel: Cultural Heritage and Remembering Liaquat Ali Khan Andrea Berrini, H.M. Naqvi, High-Life in Pakistan by Political Economy Kalaam e Aarifaan by Sneak Preview of The Selected Preservation in Pakistan and Roger Long in conversation with Bina Shah, and Ameena Saiyid Regula Bubb Matthew A. Cook, Zia Mian, Hasan Aziz Works of Abdullah the Cossack South Asia Akber Liaquat Ali Khan Moderator: Gianluca Rubagotti Regula Bubb, Malahat Awan, Najmuddin Shaikh, and Hasan Aziz and Bari Mian by H. M. Naqvi Sheema Kermani Princes s and Syed Nusrat Ali Asad Sayeed Moderator: Wajid Jawad H. M. Naqvi Moderator: Maniza Naqvi Moderator: Huma Baqai Moderator: Framji Minwalla Sunday 12 February 2017 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. 6.00 p.m. - 6.50 p.m. 7.05 p.m. - 9.00p.m. Celebrating Faiz The Birth of Two Nations Book Launch: Stand up…and Laugh! Cinema across the Borders Memories and Reflections: Closing Ceremony: 7.05 p.m Zehra Nigah, Adeel Hashmi, Ayesha Jalal, Sayeed Hasan Dear Heart: To Faiz in Prison, Syed Shafaat Ali Priyanka Jha, Shabnam, Readings by Zia Speeches by Ameena Performance by Shayma and Salima Hashmi Khan, Sardar Masood Khan, 1951–1955 by Alys Faiz Nadeem Baig, Mustafa Mohyeddin Saiyid and Asif Farrukhi Saiyid and Suhaee Abro Moderator: Ali Madeeh and Roger Long and Qureshi, and Asif Raza Mir Keynote Speeches by: Hashmi Moderator: Harris Khalique Over My Shoulder: Writings by Moderator: Umber Khairi Bobby Sager 7.15 p.m. - 9.00p.m. Garden Alys Faiz Mohammed Hanif Concert by Saif Samejo Moneeza Hashmi and and Dhamaal Main Marjorie Hussain Recitation: Sania Saeed Moderator: Mira Hashmi 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. EACPE Video Competition: Partition: Drawing Borders in Ilaqai aur Qaumi Book Launch: Sheikh Ayaz: Sindh Sang Khwab ka Safar: Karachi: Is Pakistan’s Boom Making Change in Pakistan: Blood Shanakht: Daddy’s Boy by through him A Documentary on Jamiluddin Aali Town still Booming? What Works, What Doesn’t Urvashi Butalia, Sudheendra Amar Jaleel, Munir Ahmed Shandana Minhas Mahtab Akbar Rashdi, Amar Introduction by Raju Jamil Roland deSouza, Arif Hasan, Sarmad Khoosat and Kulkarni, Kishwar Naheed, and Badini, Noor ul Huda Shah, Shandana Minhas Sindhu, Amar Jaleel, and Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Umair Ali Aquila Ismail, Najmuddin

Jasmine Nadeem F. Paracha Nauman Naqvi and Masood Lohar Moderator: Framji Minwalla Imdad Hussaini Qazi, Khatija Bano, and Raju Jamil Shaikh, and Haris Gazdar Moderator: Pervez Hoodbhoy Moderator: Ishtiaq Ahmed Moderator: Attiya Dawood Moderator: Mujahid Barelvi Moderator: Asif Noorani Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. Book Launch: Security or Economics: Book Launch: Palestine, Syria: Art and Enterprise for Conflict Book Launch: Hybrid Tapestries: The Fasana Raqam Karain by What Drives Foreign Policy? Love in Chakiwara and Other Where Doves endlessly Weep Resolution Development of Pakistani Literature Mujahid Barelvi Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Zafar Hilaly, Misadventures by Bilal Tanweer Laleh Khalili, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Bobby Sager, Pervez Hoodbhoy, and in English by Muneeza Shamsie Sardar Masood Khan, Fahmida Riaz, Mian Raza Rabbani, and Zia Mian Bilal Tanweer Jamsheed Marker, and Farrukh Iqbal Salman Ahmad Ghazi Salahuddin, Framji Minwalla, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, and Moderator: Ilhan Niaz Moderator: Arfa Sayeda Zehra Moderator: Ilhan Niaz Moderator: Amin Hashwani David Waterman, and Aquarius Mujahid Barelvi Muneeza Shamsie Moderator: Noor ul Huda Shah Moderator: Ayesha Tammy Haq 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. Al-Andalus: Book Launch: Novel aur Nisai Shaoor Book Launch: Challenges and Risks The Dawn of Freedom, Spreading Education: Are The Rise and Fall of Those Children by Shahbano Bilgrami Fahmida Riaz, Bushra The Pakistan Anti-Hero: to Pakistan’s Economic The Pain of Partition We Winning or Losing the Muslim Spain Shahbano Bilgrami Iqbal Malik, Aquila Ismail, History of Pakistani Stability Christina Oesterheld, Struggle? Iftikhar Salahuddin Moderator: Muneeza Shamsie and Christina Oesterheld Nationalism through the Vaqar Ahmed, Hafiz A. Ayesha Jalal, Anam Zakaria, Muhammad Ali Shaikh, Introduction by Zehra Nigah Book Launch: Moderator: Aqsa Ijaz Lives of Iconoclasts by Pasha, and Rolf Paasch and Urvashi Butalia Faisal Bari, Ameena Saiyid, Nadeem F. Paracha Muneer Ahmed Badini, and oom 007 Ajmer Sharif: Awakening of Sufism in South Asia Moderator: Abdul Qadir Moderator: Sehba Sarwar R by Reema Abbasi Nadeem F. Paracha Shahid Siddiqui Moderator: Mazhar Zaidi Presented by: Moderator: Abbas Rashid Reema Abbasi, Yousuf Bashir Qureshi, and Ameena Saiyid Moderator: Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon 12.15 p.m. – 1.15 p.m. 1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. 3.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. 4.45 p.m. – 5.45 p.m. Nayee Bastian, The Empress and her Munshi The New Generation of Book Launch: Book Launch: Collector of Worlds Murder, they Wrote Jani Pehchani Awazain Shrabani Basu Creatives in Pakistan Interpreting Islam, Modernity, Hindustan ki Mauseequi by Bina Shah in conversation with Piyush Jha, Omar Shahid Hamid, Nasim Syed, Shahida Hassan, Moderator: Victoria Schofield and Women’s Rights in Pakistan Abdul Halim Sharar Ilija Trojanow and S.S. Mausoof and Humera Rahman by Anita M. Weiss Yousuf Kerai, Shahram Azhar, Moderator: Sabyn Javeri Moderator: Inaam Nadeem Nasira Iqbal and Anita M. Weiss and Muhammad Athar Masood

Princess Moderator: Nausheen Ahmad Moderator: Sharif Awan

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