One might think a country of 204 million people, with English as an official language, would be a magnet for overseas publishers, but as the 15th Karachi International Book Fair got underway today there were only 36 exhibitors from 17 countries present. The five day book fair, organised by the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association … Continue reading 400,000 expected at Karachi Int. Book Fair but global publishers still treat Pakistan as a publishing backwater. Can digital revive Pakistan’s publishing fortunes?