Where EXTREMES meet literary glitterati from Pakistan and India in third annual Karachi Literature Festival,

THE NEW YORK TIMES - The forces that compete to shape contemporary Pakistan were in plain sight in Karachi last Sunday. While at a posh creek-side hotel, literary glitterati from Pakistan and India and the South Asian diaspora in Britain and beyond gathered for the third annual Karachi Literature Festival, at the mausoleum of Pakistan’s founder, the symbolic centre of the city, the Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC), a coalition of more than 40 religious political parties and extremist groups,

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