Jinnah Super Market · F-7 · Islamabad
Two hundred thousand doorways.
The subcontinent's largest bookstore — 24,000 square feet of shelves in the heart of the capital, stacked floor to ceiling since 1974.
The subcontinent's largest bookstore — 24,000 square feet of shelves in the heart of the capital, stacked floor to ceiling since 1974.
200,000+
Imported titles
24,000
Square feet of shelves
1974
A kiosk in Peshawar
Peshawar, 1974. One counter, a few hundred books, and a conviction that no reader should be turned away for want of a title. Half a century later that kiosk has become the largest showroom of books in the subcontinent — and the F-7 flagship has been the capital's reading room for a quarter of a century.
Students, diplomats, retired generals, eight-year-olds on tiptoe — everyone ends up here eventually, and nobody leaves quickly.
Read the whole story
Ground floor
The tables by the door, restocked daily. Prize lists, imports, and the novel everyone is arguing about this month.
First floor
The serious stacks. Where correspondents, scholars, and the merely curious go quiet for an hour.
The corner
Low shelves, tall stories. Where the next fifty years of our customers are currently sitting cross-legged.
Two hundred thousand titles in stock — and a special-orders desk for everything else on earth.