“We are a small publishing house based in Islamabad, but we print books by authors from all over the country. The books we have published include biographies, anthologies, children’s books, as well as works by personalities such as Dr Mubarak Ali, Hamid Mir and Gohar Ayub.

We are the only publishing house from the twin cities which put up a stall at the Islamabad Literary Festival, even though there are so many of them.

We have also printed a book on heroic police officer Sifwat Ghayyur. In literary works, we have printed Munir Niazi’s books, as well as authors from Karachi. Prose is more in vogue these days, nobody even asks for poetry books anymore. Even Ahmed Faraz’ or Anwar Masood’s books are collecting dust here because no one buys them.”

Published in Dawn, April 23rd, 2016