Failed states don't hold literature festivals: Anatol Lieven

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Journalist, professor and writer Anatol Lieven talks to Dawn.com during the Karachi Literature Festival 2012. Lieven, author of a widely acclaimed book “Pakistan: A hard country,” believes Pakistan is not an enemy of the West and it cannot be called a ‘failed state.’

Lieven was among the most popular speakers at the two-day festival, which concluded on February 12 and the end of the first day saw his book being wiped off the stalls.

Interview by Salman Haqqi/Dawn.com, Videographer: Hussain Afzal/Dawn.com

 

[AbhimanyuShrivastav]

The fact that there is a hot debate on whether Pakistan is a failed state or not, is in itself an insult to Pakistan and potential of Pakistani people..

 

[Rafi]

Artificial debate, Pakistan is here to stay, the people waiting for it to fail, will have to wait till Judgement Day.

 

[SHAMK9]

Five-day Lahore International Book Fair begins

By Tariq Farid

LAHORE: The 26th Lahore International Book Fair 2012 kicked off at the Expo Centre, Johar Town, on Friday.

The five-day event has been organised by the Lahore International Book Fair Trust (LIBFT) and the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association (PPBA). The book fair was inaugurated by Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif, and is set to continue till Tuesday.

Publishers and booksellers from across the country as well as US, UK, Singapore, Turkey, Germany and India are participating in the event, which is the largest of its kind in the country.

Shahbaz announced a grant of Rs 2,000,000 for the International Book Fair Trust, saying that book fairs like these augured well for the promotion of book reading habit among the youth.

Addressing the ceremony, he said that education was the key to elimination of poverty, unemployment, terrorism and extremism and putting the country on the road to progress and prosperity.

The CM said that the Punjab government had taken unprecedented measures for the uplift of education sector and promotion of quality education. He said that IT labs were set up in more than 4,000 schools across the province at a cost of Rs 5 billion and hundreds of thousands of children from Attock to Rahim Yar Khan were benefiting from this project, gaining latest information about global changes and new inventions.

He said that the programme of distribution of laptops among the talented youth on the basis of merit had also been initiated, adding that one hundred and ten thousand laptops will be given to students by the end of March. He said that laptops would also be given to the talented students of other provinces as well, including Azad Kashmir. The Punjab government had set up a modern digital library in Murree and was considering establishment of such libraries in all educational institutions of the province, he noted.

LIBF Trust Chairman Zubair Saeed, in his welcome address, said that the purpose of organising the book fair was to promote the habit of book reading among the youth. He said that 240 stalls had been set up in the book fair and more than 50 textbooks of international standard were available there.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[Kesang]

I thought that " failed state " is banned topic in PDF .

 

[acetophenol]

we live in pakistan and we know we r having better lifestyle than u indians. So shut ur mouths and get lost idiot people.

watch your mouth.

 

[Mike2011]

I thought that " failed state " is banned topic in PDF .

Well it is due to some ... complex...

 

[third eye]

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHVyP0szxlKtzm7cnhplXtvXAlvGw

This link brings out subjects / Topics that are banned on this forum.

Failed state is one of them.

 

[Bl[i]tZ]

we live in pakistan and we know we r having better lifestyle than u indians. So shut ur mouths and get lost idiot people.

Welcome to the real world - India's GDP per captia 1.4 times that of Paksitan World Bank, World Development Indicators | India & Pakistan)

 

[Bl[i]tZ]

I disagree with the Professor's premise. Find below the more information on Somalia's literary festival and book fair. :
Kayd.org » Mooge Festival
http://www.hargeysabookfair.com/

 

[AbhimanyuShrivastav]

we live in pakistan and we know we r having better lifestyle than u indians. So shut ur mouths and get lost idiot people.

Using a duplicate id to vent ?

 

[kawaraj]

Indians seem to have a better English literature, congratulation. keep on your good job in trolling world.

 

[Baby Leone]

obesity with Pakistan....

the example of low lifes....grow up plzz...

 

[JonAsad]

The fact that there is a hot debate on whether Pakistan is a failed state or not, is in itself an insult to Pakistan and potential of Pakistani people..

this is what a tortoise will say as a last resort while going back in its shell trying to saving face-

whaaaat you look so dissappointed- -

 

[acetophenol]

the example of low lifes....grow up plzz...

Just take a look at your posts!