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- ↑ Books galore: Lahore International Book Fair opens its doors, Express Tribune
- ↑ Book fair concludes
- 1 2 Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan Archived 2008-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "UPCOMING EVENTS". expolahore.com. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ↑ Lahore book fair gets tremendous response
- ↑ 25th Lahore Book Fair opens today | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online
- ↑ http://libftrust.com/
