KFBL meeting considers holding exclusive event for children in 2025

Pakistan News & Features Services

Buoyed by the monumental success of the inaugural edition of the Karachi Festival of Books and Libraries (KFBL) in 2024, its co-founders, Aziz Memon and Syed Khalid Mahmood, have shown the inclination for launching an exclusive event to promote reading habits among the children. 

In this connection, a meeting was recently convened at Delhi Montessori and Primary School, housed in Federal-B-Area, Karachi. It was presided over by Syed Khalid Mahmood, Co-founder, KFBL. Muhammad Nazakat Ali, Chief Editor, Karachi Observer, Abdul Hamid, Convenor, Friends of Libraries Pakistan (FLP), Syed Rashid Mahmood, Coordinator, KFBL, and Syed Arshad Ahmed, Member, KFBL Central Committee, attended the meeting alongwith a couple of eminent writers and authors for children, Hanif Sehr, Editor, School Life, and Mahboob Elahi Makhmoor, Editor, Anokhi Kahaniyan. 

Hanif Sehr and Mahboob Elahi Makhmoor, both of them acclaimed as household names after having written and produced content for children for a number of decades, lavishly praised the KFBL co-founders and its producers, Jumbo Publishing, for having undertaken an arduous task which, they reckoned, will go a long way in promoting readership culture in the society. 

Giving a detailed presentation, they proposed to the KFBL management to consider mobilizing their resources for holding a similar festival exclusively for children which was the need of the hour. 

They felt that Urdu literature in particular will get a tremendous boost if such an activity aimed at targeting the children was launched at a grand scale. All the participants at the meeting appreciated their viewpoints. 

In his concluding remark, Syed Khalid Mahmood, declared that the management of Jumbo Publishing would gladly consider the proposal of holding a similar festival dedicated to the children.