Pakistan, Oct. 18 -- Pakistani literature has progressed with leaps and bounds over the last many decades.

Three distinct streams comprise our literature. First, there is the regional language literature that has been emerging from villages and towns. Second, the Urdu literature - that has dominated the literary facade of Pakistan in the form of prose and poetry even before the partition of the subcontinent. Third, the English literature that emerged globally from Pakistan during the late 1990s and early 2000s but had its roots embedded into the country's literary fabric for decades.

The regional literature becomes the foundation to build higher levels of literature in other languages. This literature - with its fables, stories, poems, ...