It was a place where one could get the best of Urdu books, the works of fiction and non-fiction, constitutional law, Islamic law, the translation of the Quran and the Vedas and the Ramayana too.

The Pakistan Academy of Letters yesterday launched the Urdu translation of Portuguese author José Luís Peixoto's novel Nenhum Olhar (Blank Gaze). Ambassador of Portugal to Pakistan Frederico ...