The year (2013) in books in ... Urdu

       In Dawn Rauf Parekh finds 2013: yet another prolific year for Urdu literature.
       Apparently:

Ask any publisher of Urdu books, great or small, about the sale of Urdu books and probably you will have to bear with a litany of complaints, including dismal figures of ever-dwindling sales and readers' declining interest towards books in general and Urdu books in particular.

       But Parekh isn't convinced:

What I want to say is that during the year 2013 most of the publishers of Urdu books kept on churning out new as well as old titles despite their never-ending albeit fake pessimism. What is more interesting is the fact that while some of them are reluctant to pay any royalties to authors or respect copyright laws, they not only reproduce old titles, especially the ones that are always in demand and sell well, but they themselves claim the copyrights of the works they have published illegally.

       Well, I guess as long as things get published it's ... sort of positive. And at least a fair amount does still seem to get published.
       Now how about some more translations into English of this stuff ... ?