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