British Council aims to build long-term relationships between the UK and Pakistan through increased mutual collaboration through its creative arts programme based on the wealth of heritage and skills in Pakistan. The programme showcases Pakistan and UK’s creative industries and commercial arts by exploring the artistic mediums of film, music, creative writing, literature, visual arts and design.

Karachi Literature Festival

The Karachi Literature Festival is a reflection of Pakistan’s historical roots as expressed in a multiplicity of languages and in various forms of writing. The Festival brings together international & Pakistani authors and performing artists to create an intellectual space in which the diversity and pluralism in Pakistan’s society and that expressed by authors from traditions beyond Pakistan’s borders can be freely accessible to people in an open and participatory manner.  

Dickens 2012

The British Council is working with over 50 countries worldwide to coordinate an exciting range of arts activities celebrating the bicentenary of the UK's most prolific and influential novelists, Charles Dickens.

Reconstruction: Fashion Exhibition – March 2012

Celebrating the work of London-based fashion designers who skilfully use elements of their past - either personal moments or a collective cultural heritage – to create clothes with narrative.

UK – Pakistan Connections Through Culture (CTC)

This programme is designed to bring together creative people and facilitate institutional partnerships. It will strengthen professional networks, develop skills, and create better understanding between the people of two countries. The programme will play an important part in building a stronger infrastructure for the arts to flourish in Pakistan over the next decade.

Creative and Cultural Economy (CCE)

Creative and Cultural Economy (CCE) is a project that will enable Pakistan to improve cultural sector infrastructure, policy, skills and knowledge using UK’s expertise and experience as the UK is a world leader in nurturing and developing its own creative and cultural economy, seeing continued growth, job creation and social benefits despite the recent downturn.