In a recent raid
carried out at a book binding unit / printing press in Lahore around 17,500
pirated copies of Oxford University Press (OUP) textbooks were seized. The raid
was conducted by the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) Lahore in
conjunction with OUP Pakistan. The unit / press was allegedly involved in the
printing of around 10,000 unbound; 2,200 finished; and 5,000 jackets of pirated
versions of OUP textbooks including New Oxford Modern English, New Countdown
Maths, New Oxford Primary Science, New Syllabus Primary
Mathematics, and New Oxford Progressive English Readers.
Book piracy
constitutes a punishable offence under the laws of Pakistan. The owner of the book
binding unit / printing press, Ghulam Mustafa, will now be subject to severe
sanctions. All the pirated materials have been seized by the FIA.
Such infringements of intellectual property rights cause massive losses to publishing industries throughout Asia, to authors,
in some cases to governments, and, in this case, to the parents and pupils who have
been cheated into buying sub-standard pirated textbooks.
Don’t buy pirated books!!!
