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Both Ramiz and faraz plan to spoil the fun and day for the girls-Sabah and Shamin, faraz and his companion put on face masks and stop the car they had sent with driver to give them a lift, gratefully accepting the ride the girls did not know what would be awaiting them on their way, soon the highway robbers stop the driver and ask the girls to pull out their gold jewellery, Sabah takes off her heavy gold chain and ear rings, but the other girls tells them nervously in a meek voice that all her things precious in the bank,

Bikharte Khwabon Ki Taabir

Two young men get down at phool nagar and two girls ask them directions for phool nagar, Faraz gives them wrong ones saying they got down by mistake a couple of stations before, the girls become nervous, the boys disappear, its an isolated area, later they meet again when the girls who are visiting relatives and the boys too have come for vacation meet in a mango grove, where the girls were crouching in a tree prowling the orchard relishing sweet and sour ripe and unripe manoes, the watchman brings the boys to find out who has piled up a huge mango mound underneath the trees, sudden mango shower from above make the men shut their eyes, the girls get a chance to escape, the boys to their delight sit down to do justice to the fallen prey of mangoes

Wahi Khwab

Amir and his mother have good understanding of each other, they stay talking together for hours, their code language is understood only by them, they have invented a term for the future bride, amir agrees to marry the girl of his mother"s choice, next day he goes to office to distribute invitations, sudden power failure blinds him , he hits someone on his way down the staircase, he meets Tabaan, he finds out she is still single, two days are left for his own marriage, but he is attracted to this lovely attractive young beautiful naughty girl

Almuqatadar

Almuatadar can bestow desired blessings changing the destiny, life quality, elevating one"s status from beggarly to royal, from lowly to highly, from foolish to wise, in society

Talaash

Talaash by Dr Zakiya Balgarami is a storyline of lost children, growing up and meeting without knowing who is who, whose parents are culprits , Sabahat is a young doctor , she lives with jannat begum as her daughter, she decides to marry Harun a colleague who was lost when he was kid , he is jannat's son, jannat has abducted sabahat from dr kamran"s mother the day she was born for punishing her for jannat believes their hand in her misfortune, jannat writes a letter and sends noorin to their family as their daughter mah bano, without confirming through DNA tests the family willingly accepts the newcomer to their family, the real mah bano is sabahat and jannat feels forlorn , she tells her husband if sabahat is returned to the real family , jannat would also get her lost boy, sabahat and harun make up and again get engaged to get married,

Islaam And Beti

An interesting read for the daughter"s place and rights and duties in islamic community

Palak-Spinach

palak is a green leafy vegetable now being cultivated for its valueable natural minerals, its also easy to cook

Dard-e-Kamar

These days waist pains and joint pains is effecting almost everyone from east to west, from old to the young, from educated to the uneducated, from the rich to the not so well off, to the countries as advanced as america is badly hit with this kind of pain

AAshroh-muhram Ki Azmat O Ahmyat

The word AAshrah is derived from ashrah that means the tenth day of the ten days, on this day hazrat isa, Hazrat Musa, hazrat Nooh, hazrat Suleman, Hazrat Ibrahim and others were granted according to hadis sharif the empowerments they are known for by Almighty Allah

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Azwaah gets a marriage proposal, brought by nayab"s family, she is reacting negatively, she knows exactly how dangerous and wicked he is, she is preparing for her coming exams at night incessant phone bell ringing disturbs her, extention of the phone is in every room, but it seems they have been plugged off in baba:s room, so she picks up the receiver , it is nayab asking her out, she confesses her true sentiments for Mason, since she could recall as a kid when she could not even name the emotion , nayab laughs at her stupidity, she retorts he and the likes of him and kaynat cant undertand sincere feelings

Ankhein Meri Khwaab Tere

the beautiful story sketches a cultural family set up in miderm madhya pradesh -the stae which is famous for seven lakes and being ruled from 1819-1925 by the begums who got many hotels, hospitals, roads, mosques and lakes built and that still are worth seeing, heena is a young medical student , getting ready as a bride to be and the groom wants to see her in bridal get up, on the pretext of wanting to meet his elder aunt he enters and tries his best to have a glimpse of the girl ready with mehndi , make up and the gang of other young unmarried girls circling her

Madine Se Karbala Tak

Some fourteen hundred years ago when Ibn Zayad was the governor of Madina Hazrat Imam Hussain decided to leave that land for finally to reach karbala

Zakiya Balgarami

Zakiya balgarami is the famous and popular pakistani novelist and short story writer, born in india before partition , aligarh as she remembers is her dream land used in her stories, she is a Phd, Msc, science botony lecturer, urdu litterateur and a quran writer, mother, housewife and a complete personality, her interview is inspiring and a lesson , Talash is her serialwise novel published and enthusiastically accepted by the readers of pakeeza anchal

Pakeeza Anchal--january

Undoubtedly allah can bestow miraculously unlimited honours to the one of his choice, all intelligence on one side and His almighty will the other , Pakeeza anchal is growing tremendously on the minds of the urdu community everywhere , including the tiniest of pockets at the back of beyound all over the world unexpectedly, its all due to the hardwork of the writers , good will of readers and blessings of the almighty without which it would be impossible

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Dr Naasir is a captive and narrates his tale of woe, to faridi and hamid, he also tells zobia lost her mother when she was born, her scientist father needed infants for his experiments and he put her in a mute woman"s care who could never tell her whose daughter she was, growing up knowing from the taunts of the neighbours zobia "s reactions were recorded by the scientist, till one day the foster mother died, dr nasir took over her responsibilities saying he was the dead mute woman"s brother, The scientist wanted at a point to reveal she was his child but Nagri forced him to be quiet and made him will all his property to nagri, afterwards nagri poisoned the scientist, nagri wanted zobia to be attracted towards him that way things would have been easier for nagri, but zobia was more intelligent

Anokhe Raqs

Hamid is having his icecream and enjoying it very much in the hotel where there is a beautiful dancing floor and lawns, he sees the lovely young woman who always insists on being with him every evening he is there, Zobia is quite attractive, she is seemingly in a hurry and walks past hamid, he is upset at being ignored, he finishes his ice cream and follows her, she is apparently waiting for someone in particular, hamid asks her if she is looking for him, and whats going on so special that is engaging her attention so much, she turns around and with a emotionless blank face asks him who he was, a man comes drunk and threatens hamid for chsing his girl

Aafiyat

Martha is an army nurse, she looks after a wounded soldier -Loyal , back to life who is quite a dashing and handsome man who marries her , she is plain and not pretty but extremely nice person , sincere to him, charles is her brother and a detective who finds in the store room of her cottage a tool box full of dead and murdered women"s stockings, Loyal -the husband--on Charles"s tip off is taken prisoner, but again a beautiful young woman next door is murdered

Jallad Safat

Sofia and Simon are a married couple in their forties, sofia is easily irritated , impatient and short tempered woman, simon goes to office and also looks after her, he manages house chores well too for her, one day its quite stormy and snowing heavily, simon gets a call from sofia to return in that weather to cook her lunch, meantime she spends her spare time reading haunted stories she enjoys, simon gives her some of his life insurance documents for her birthday, she is not interested in his death, for he is useful to her alive

Ghazal-pg 226

As if life is an infliction
Ocean filled in droplets

Purified in fire its pure gold
Like a good coin set

My soul image met me as if
Absolute stranger is met

Time was wasted as if
A blossom fallen from rest
Good memory is as if
A jewel studded heart at test

Tears roll down endlessly
As if stone hit aghast

Naaz -exhaustion is put out
As if one fights with his own inner self

Farah Naaz

Nashey Ki Jang

mac is a constant road runner , a traveller, he finds Emille one evening who is attacked , wounded by the drug peddlars and faints before him, mac gives her medication and soon she physically recovers in some days, mac is a strong and intelligent man and says he is waiting for a eighteen barrel truck loaded with cotton , he would get a message , emille also joins him in his mission thinking him to be a petty thief, mac sees the latest news on TV that emille belongs to a district sttorney"s high class affluent family, the whole family has been killed ruthlessly and she is missing, mac believs her story, both travel during night time and rest in the day time, avoiding rush hours

Bagule

The young urdu girl from london has come to search for her missing father, shah mir is happy to know she is tough and jokingly calls her his new found brother , she gets him to help her, the train to haseen pur in which she was travelling meets with an accident , she opens her eyes in a hospital, the young man on the next bed tells her , he is a victim of fate, as a child he was sold off to beggars, for his family was starving from poverty, the beggars liked the amount he fetched for his innocent looks, he was not crippled, he became strong and a rich man gave his advice that he was so strong he could snatch, he must not beg, the young man snatched that very man"s wallet. he was running away when he met the narrator

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It is my life, its just mine

if destroyed , what matters to you?

It is understood , you are not mine

Whom doth search my eyes, what matters to you?

Kashi Chaihan

Safak

Gordan with his governess friend plans a kidnapping of the child she is working for, he wants her to leave the job to start with as the first step, then they would meet the child where he goes with his new governess, the daily schedule is known to them, the child is familiar with Therra, she would easily carry him in her arms and demand a ransome from the wealthy father

Andha Intaqaam

Zebulnissah is a lovely exotic flower whose charmas have intoxicated the cashere of the office, he spends an evening with her at her home with her family , the next day he is too late for office, on reaching he finds and is blamed for robbing the office safe vault, after that a string of strange incidents greet him on his way , odd situations damage his reputation, he ponders who is behind the phone calls , he is not only rejected by all but he becomes involved in arranged crimes he has not committed, if someone is his secret enemy he would have killed him by then, so someone is taking revenge he is not aware of, without being given any chance to explain his version, and then he finds out who could it be who has completely , almost completely destroyed him

Israr-e-Ehraam

Larry is a qualified young man , his father was a mechanic , mother a teacher, Larry gets a strange offer to join a well paid job whose work requirement he would be told only if he signed and joined the group in antarctica surrounded by arctic ocean , the bond to stay there for next ten years , the secretiveness makes him suspicious, but the interviewer tells him illegal things can be done locally , for that one does not go to antarctica, larry discusses the matter with his girl friend who advises it is apparently a hansomely paid job he should accept, on his flight the only passenger on the plane he is told by the pilot that his predecessors had abandoned the job abd run away, finding it rather odd why they should take the emergency boat , the two predecessors both choosing the same method , how far they could have sailed in the ocean, they could have returned and cancelled the agreement instead, he is met by foster the only manager on the island who takes him to the aluminium chrome building where larry has to stay

Jaal

Morgan is released from prison by his cell mate and his terrorist father, in return he is asked to do a favour by killing an advocate on the third floor office in Business Chambers building , by this time morgan has met jacqulin and befriended her, they date quite often, he wants to remove his wife who knows his past and is athreat and blackmails him, if he gives her a divorce, so morgan accepts to do the job himself by involving his wife to put a pen bomb in the advocate"s chamber and he would detonate it from the car with a remote, but does it happen or what goes wrong and where?

Jalpari

Riberts is a cotton broker and a rich businessman, he goes to see cotton fields , its his good fortune to have a glimpse of a beautiful young girl at the lake whom he compares to a mermaid, later he is invited to an exclusive evening party by a loathsome couple -Norris and his deadly wife , there he is introduced to norris's niece the same mermaid-jeanne, noone had actually ever met jeanne"s mother or father but norris claims she is his ward, surprised why only roberts and noone else is present at the party roberts enjoys the evening

Ghardaab

Maah Bano pleads to sheheryar to hide her somewhere from the chaudhary whose convoy was approaching quickly, she is hidden in the connecting room through a temporary window removing the screen lightly fixed on to it, Iftkhar chaudhary knocks that moment and comes in to meet the teachers of the local school, they are told he is about to let build a mobile company tower on the same land where the school building is supposedly being planned by aftab, who says any leftover land piece could be used later for the tower but school was a proiority over the phones as education for their society was his first choice and other things could follow thereafter

Khauf

Little noordin is an orphan adopted by asya, chaudhary sardar ul din sees him leaving the room at midnight fearlessly as no other child that age can do, the chaudhary has also seen a family picture hanging on the wall in which noordin is also present, the chaudhary gets suspicious of him, he is no ordinary child, there is ev il atmosphere around him

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The narrator is found by the real kilers of the diplomat on secret mission in lahore, he is abducted , he is seen and noticed wearing the locket associated with the murder, he is taken somewhere and asked to tell from where he got it, he tells how he too has recognised them as the ones who escaped on hearing the sirens that night, their faces turn listless, they cant let him free for their own identities were at stake, he says just before he gets killed by them too, he would like to know what was their reason for targetting washka , if they had known there was so much wealth hidden in other closets why they had not

stolen it themselves, why they were demanding the same from him now, he is able to take complete control of the situation and Taji is taken hostage , who shrieks that compromise on his terms is possible

Darindah

The protagonist is wearing the locket he found at the washka lebenese diplomat's house, while talking to rakhshi he forgets about it and it is seen by her, her reaction is dramatic, suddenly she darkens up, asks him from where he got it, both have been thinking the other has fallen in love , actually both now come to know the reality of each other, she tells him she had been working in the diplomat"s house where in a dungeon are kept gold buscuits she wants him to steal for her

Maqtool Masiha

The writer Mirza Beg is narrating the story as a best criminal lawyer in town, naseer Shah and his wife appoint him their accused son"s defence lawyer,Naasir is charged of murdering the doctor he works with night shift, there are strangulating signs on the throat of the dead man , with finger rings impressions, Naasir is a left handed observes the narrator, how well he can alalyze and stepwise proceeds on his case to successfully solve it is most interesting

Ghazal-Pg 85

Tearfilled eyes should have shed tears while parting

I should have passed away without you

I should have taken all severe blows of fate

You should have told me before leaving me

You could not see your image in my eyes

So I had to go away quietly

In the journey of life I kept quiet but

When you left I was absolutely scattered

Without you shiver wintery nights with pain

Having lost you , it became imperative, I ruined myself

You found someone better than I-Then

Breach of promises were inevitable for you

Before we entangled our lives together again

Dearest Of Mine-My separating my life away from you was right

Shaira-Nazia Kanwal Nazi

The Arrangement Of Dual

A message is brought by tajo a close confidante of the begum to the narrator, that he should avoid the next day"s fight arranged by Wali her husband between him and balaa, a distant relative of hers from her native village, believing the narrator to be stronger than balaal , this gives him immense pleasure and he feels the fight is won without fighting it, he sends a note to wali that his condition is still improving after the bee hive attack

Hamid"s word sketch

Character sketch of hamid, the only son of the second begum where the narrator is working, he finds hamid is a hakim"s son and does not take orders, nor does he understand what obedience means, so instead of commanding hamid he simply guides him showing him the riht direction , how to read and write, soon hamid learns to read and write , where othes had failed to control him as he was stubborn , narrator easily finds out a way to handle him, soon the begum also happily joins the classes without trying to hide the fact that she is a complete and absolute illiterate, narraor sees how young she is compared to the older husband , she is almost like her son"s sibling, the narrator gets infatuated

Parwaaz

The narrator is a young unmarried unemployed educated man, he leaves lahore where he was working for two thousand five hindred, for establishing a complete household in a new city without roots is very difficult, he has a mother whome he calls bebe that sounds to him more affectionate than other words -ammi, amma, and maaji, his sister is also his responsibility, he needs a job to sustain his family, pretending less educated he gets a job lower to his qualifications, his new boss is just a coupkle of years older to him, one day the story teller gets opportunity to read and interpret the text on a telegramme held in the hands of the second very young begum, this becomes a turning point, soon he is promoted to a more responsible job with a raise in his salary, he becomes the tutor of Hamid

bad Shat-e-Zindah

jwad declares he is legally married to sabarani, that he married her quietly as he thought she was innocent victim of being accused as robber, because he had no evidence and was planning to prove her to be npt at all in any way involved in the robbery he had married her, actually he played a double game , to save his own skin, as the raid by the investigators had caught him