In Dawn Ikram Junaidi suggests there's been a Setback to literary departments in Pakistan, as the Pakistan Academy of Letters, the National Book Foundation, and numerous other departments were placed under the the Ministry of National Heritage and Integration in 2010 -- which has, in turn, now been merged into the the Ministry of Information, arguably not the ideal institution to deal with all this ("The information ministry has its own priorities and seems unable to utilise these departments for which they had been established").
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