Teer-e- Neem Kash

Story by Parvin Zuber-begins on a highway petroling team , Imtyaz is bored with such a bland life comparing it to a cup of tea without storm, thrill is what he wants and thrill immediately presets itself when he sees robbers stopping a red car , a family consisting of father mother son and daughter are driving past, the gunned robbers threaten them running away the moment imtyaz arrives shooting down one of the robbers, later his associate gives him a tip that a certain builder and local businessman under smoke screen is the man he is looking for, imtyaz gets his close and trusted man to get a flat in one of his wanted man"s building , everyday provocations force shahzad to settle the case out of court because of his shortcomings, a cause of future blackmailing by imtyaz giving him access to meet the man behind the robbers directly

Dushman Ki Ladki

By Nawaz Khaan, as investigating officer not wanting to disclose his real identity stalks in plain clothes Ishar kaur a friend of sarita and dilip of hoshiarpur, officer does not want to disgrace the young girl, he follows her back to the bust stop she is walking to with her friends who turn by turn turn their corner, finally ishar kaur is alone, khaan believes that along with investigation prevention of crime is also most important, using sarita"s name he is able to catch ishar kaur"s attention who is fearfully running away from him, she is told talking to him about her would help everyone, she is steered into a muslim restaurant where she tells him she knows him -he is the inspector and would meet him the next day in the public park with her friend at two thirty, prepared to answer his question related to sarita"s case.

Akhtataam

The story opens on the scene on a flight to trinidad, with johny standing near the water cooler drinking from a glass wondering who is the one on the passenger list he has to shoot down, he goes to the wash room, starts shaving with an elctric shaver when a bald man enters the washroom , the rough manner of speaking of johny is his true identification, the baldy gives him instruction to kill harvard and keep an eye on his wife -norma , on the flight , harvard is an old professional partner disgruntled and segregated with lots of their business secrets , who could prove dangerous has sent for his wife apparently he trusts her with what he has to impart to her obviously could damage the baldy and other business partners

Bagule

Bagule by M . A Rahat is a sketch of Sheru"s lifestyle, he is a sharpshooter abducted by nur ali, taken away to another country where he must assasinate someone pointed out by nur ali or his friend Ghazala will come to harm, he is informed by fariya Jabin who claims to be state security in charge who produces a tape in her defence

Zera Mukhtalif

A story by Qashif Zuber -- curtain raiser that draws a picture in Texas where Antonio is selected and sent to a small township en route Arizona - California, he has to settle down social clashes as a peacemaker, antonio is a sharp shooter, he knows just two methods to settle a dispute, either peacefully or ..how makes a remarkable read

Taaqab

A story by Anwaar Siddiqui--The narrator on a sea voyage in his cabin reads at night, enjoying his book when he hears a light knocking on his door, disturbed he gets out from his cosy blankets, to his surprise there was noone , the corridor was empty, every time he goes back the recurring knocks get louder accompanied by sobs, he is finally able to detect the source of the disturbing sound, a man is on the deck asking his help to unknot the emergency boat as the stranger's woman friend has been killed, whose dead body was in the tiny boat, the narrator swoons, he wakes up to a sunshine filled cabin next day to greet the major and his family standing there looking amazed

Badaa Darindah

A panoramic inside story by Muhemmed Umar -the protagonist is an orphan, ever since he recalls, Mette is given a harsh cruel treatment till he is habituated of it, he runs away from this life at fifteen, he is picked up by major rayan a mercenery trainer, who sends criminals to iraq to fight against innocent people, mette discovers there is a very fine line between right and wrong, what is correct who can tell, mette decides through his own experience what he must do, every situation in life is a teast to prove one's own sense of right

Tamashai

Tamashai opens the story on John , an acuused who is a salesman in a private store of tom who is found hanged to death, John is being moved to another location as a prisoner, by the sheriff, john cant explain to the sheriff that actually he was eloping with his daughter , thats why he was found ready to leave with his suitcase and not because he was the killer

Parwaaz

Parwaaz by Tahir Javed Mughal outlines how innocent, weak ,desperate, stupid women find themselves in compromising situations , like shadaan and shamina, khawar tries to help them solve their miseries by putting pasha"s sister in the same , or almost same position, safeguarding his own mother and sister , sending them to stay in gujranwala with rashid bhat ironsmith-a trusted friend, blackmailing women is a thriving black art , it cant be handled in one day just by one person because the masters of this craft are organised and united , strong and powerful , overclever and dangerous

Tawajah

The story by M .K Khan showcases what freedom means to Rina-a working woman , young who gets married but cant stay home alone rejoins her office, freedom is to be what one wants to be, she has to chose whether its her job, or her housewifeship, her husband is not imposing his choice, she is given absolute power to decide, her mother advises her to pay attention to herself and to her home

Gardaab

Sheheryaar is stunned into silence, mah bano whom he was trying to save escaped unharmed from chaudhary"s clutches , staying in amir"s house as his sister is apperantly killed along with amir's mother in a blast , sheheryaar meets anwar at the graveyard where he offers his heartfelt condolences to mah bano, anwar is not a trained person but a very trusted man, useful for sheheryaar's new plan of action where anwar can be of great use

Jaiz Qatal

The narrator is a reporter in search of new story, he finds a homicide investigation team --a detective known to him in full view present, reporter becomes alert , for past twelve years someone is strangling street robbers, law defines crime and its punishment, but self defence is a duty and why Robert is involved in this case is a thrilling read

Karobar

a hilariously flavoured urdu sprinkled to eleborate a peculiar situation where a proprietor finds himself eavesdropping on a ctelephonic cross connection , he is bored as noone is buying his products , and the way he is selling his denim shirts through this new kind of marketting is --one not sure of whether it is a success or a failure, loss or a gain

-from previous-

Ajmal sends arshad to singapore as his substitute because he has an obligatory function to attend, proper government banks carve out huge massive chunks of money in transfering them through proper channels so a parallel system emerged -hundi-private financers not in open market function on the sly providing and supplying at a reasonable affordable price the same in singapore or in any other country money trabsactions at a lower rate acceptable to the depositor

Dost Dushman

Dost Dushman by Mirza ahmed Beg--mirza beg is a famous criminal lawyer, with his morning breakfast he glimpses casually at the morning newspaper as his daily routine, reading a piece --a sleeping business partner is murdered by the friend -he finishes off his breakfast and newspaper , he gets ready to leave for his courts, where his secretary fauzia informs him begum zarina is impatient to meet him, as there are no other clients he meets the begum flanked by her son and husband"s brother, who introduces himself with a reporter common friend"s letter for mirza beg

February Huma

Opening lines by the editor--Strangely enough number of non-muslims is larger than muslims in urdu learning centres in new delhi, urdu is no longer considered a dead language, it has revived as one of the most elegant beautiful polite tool of elequence in the world market, huma presents urdu in its refreshing styles this edition

Muhabbet Humsafar Meri

This story muhabbet humsafar meri sketches out the difference between a possessive husband after marriage who once was the dream man of shamina, although her family had disliked the boy"s family as being of shallow disposition, though upstart wealthy, but deciding that shamina had a fix on him she was married off, how lonely she was in a full house where her nature did not suitably match with her in laws, she is involved at every level to match make for others , how she is vulnerably instrumental in family politics is a rich experience shared in story form, easily digestive to first hand torment

ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi ... Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers. he had extra ordinary powers to connect to others hearts , minds and souls, a most interesting read from the historical pages of hadees

Sheher-e-Dil

Eighteenth chapter by Shamma Hafiz develops unfolding new promises for manal in love wit dayam but engaged to humza, who needs all his documents to get visa to japan, armaa is going steady with shamir whose sister sandas is engaged to dayam but distrusts him and believes rumours, no relationship can withstand untrusting partner's taunts, for frictionless smooth life there is no broad clues and signs that who likes who, it only depends upon the person"s perception, attitude , perspective, it is just a wish to get along well with someone that can manoeuvre life long friendship

fasal-e-Baharaan

Aliya Hara writes from the point of view of Saram Raza- a traditionally eastern young man for whom every one is searching for a suitable bride who could accompany him on his trip abroad, raza likes gentle sensible women , as building a house is easy , making a home is very difficult, socialites, fashionable women are good in their respective fields, he is not comfortable with such people who are extrasmart, overclever and tricksters, Noorina in her office presents him with a problem everytime he happens to meet her

Pul-e-sarat

What are marriages but life long commitments entirely depending on both partners, if they are compatible, life goes on quite smoothly, without patience the marriage destroys life quality, Sadrah married to kashif and mamoona to asad simply have entered a new phase in their lives, sometimes , in fact most of the times life partnerships are sacrificial or they fracture like fragile fragments , usually because each one is raised separately , and totally differently, woman must understand her husband better for she has to make adjustments, quick adaptiblity in her begets desired fulfilment

Princess Of My Heart

Shireen is not exactly beautiful like her elder sister Sadya who is a born beauty, yet shireen is the nerve centre of the family, she is dusky, bluntly truthful, innocent, and clumsy, her grandmother"s favourite she has been pampered , arranged marriages present some problems, the first suitor for the elder one rejects sadya and chooses shireen, shireen decides they should be married to two brothers and soon after an opportunity arrives at their friend"s engagement function, but as young girls are before marriages, careless, silly and naive, shaukat enters their house with his brother

Muhabbet Khwab Aur Tum

Zoya and her cousin sadaf are deeply engrossed in the exclusive women"s magzine in which zoya "s light interview is published, she has answered a series of questions like -what are her views about marriage, whether it should be arranged or of her choice, what her opinion is about joint family system and whether the husband should greet her or his mother first, zoya has truthfully replied she is totally against joint family set ups, every woman dreams of a small hutment where only she and her dream man could lead a peaceful life together, others did not matter and had no place in their life, this is not taken well by her relatives, ayesha lives next door and mostly ayesha's family is always found camping in zoya:s house, revolving constantly as if fearing zoya:s family would shift elsewhere if they did not show up daily and stayed there whole day spending the time relaxing and in general doing nothing

Khubsurat Khwab

Life is a beautiful dream , in the mind of the dreamer-naaz maina gets engaged to her friend jamal whose mother is friendly to her, after her engagement naaz feels something is missing in their bomding, as a kid she was stronger and taller to jamal and used to beat him up, later he started growing taller like a huge giant, comparitively she now looked a pitiable mouse, what if he thought of avenging the way she had treated him in the past, soon she realises in love relations one must accept all that goes in it ,absolute flaws, total surrender, one simply does not marry just a person but his entire family , the balance of power shifts and swings if one is not careful one can lose his own balance, but naaz had moral support of her mother in law, of her jamaal, of her own will power and willingness to make it happen , make her life a successfully beautiful dream

Dil Ke Tha dard Ashna

What is true independence, high society definition by nagahat Abdullah--The story opens in a modern time society on a rushi hour road traffuc on the girl who is crying non stop , a car stops , the young man invites her to join him in the car as he does not like her openly crying publicly making a scene of herself, she sits in the car , he intriduces himself as ghazni, she reaches home, sanah her younger sister brings her tea , the protagnist tells he how she gives private home tutions, the children were not home , the man of the house tried to molest her, she somehow managed to get away from him

Hasti Ka Ahang

Story by Shamrah Bukhari - Gul Rana at just seventeen finds her loving caring father died suddenly in a road accident , she along with her mother and other brother and sister have to move out of the rented accomodation they no longer can afford, her step elder uncle who has a son from first wife is doing quite successfully in life, through his second marriage uncle has no offspring, Gul rana is grateful to have an annexe next to her uncle"s huge house, aunt is also kindly and caring, she still has to meet Adil who is out off station in Quetta on business trip, meantime she also visits her mother"s sister locally whose husband has instant dislike for poor and orphaned relatives who might prove burdensome to him

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Zara lives in a stately manor -Champa House, one stormy rainy day she has missed the point from where she can get conveyance home, her friend Ayeshah is carefree, careless young woman, who drags the nervous Zara into the open car driven to a halt splashing rain water in front of them deep in the mango grove by the side of the lane, dripping they take obligingly this lift by a total stranger with transparent glassy golden stare, on their way home ayesha makes fun of village men, zara is expecting one relative from he grandmother"s connections, the man drops them at their mansion saying, one can be good, not everyone is equally good, nor everyone can be like you, turning his eyes from glassy to stoney

Chhoti-Chhoti Batein

A firsthand first person experience, life is becoming a terrific race, everyone is aggressively competing, regardless of one"s abilities and capacities to cope with the negative result it can have on one, everyone wants to be noticed, seemingly very important points are ignored because they get overlooked , later they are regretted, if only one is observant and sensitive enough to focus on what matters..would and could dramatically change life quality or drastically get crushed

Talaash

Talaash - Everyone in life is seeking something to complete his happiness, absolute joy, perfect bliss, it is desirable, it is imperative, Mrs Shahid is lost since she comes to know the young woman in their household is a fraud, not her abducted mahnoor, dr kamran gets the control of nurin's cell phone and starts a series of past unfolding till jannat confesses her guilt, till sabahat gets her rightful place

Ye Khaas Kahaan Se Hoti

Masroor Jehaan"s beautiful novelette--Jazbaya is a young orphaned girl staying with her relative-Roshu , a much soughtafter eligible bachelor, akbari khala, the old loyal housekeeper likes jazbaya and schemes they get married, whereas jazbaya likes her classmate-sitara who is a product of a broken home, on the other hand a female club companion of roshu arrives home to meet him in his absence and is extremely shocked to find jazbaya staying there

On Sal-Allah-O Alle-Wassalum

Rasool Muhammed Salallahoallewassallum was born on this earth to fulfill the prophecy made long before his birth, his life history and how and who played crucial roles in his life, Hazrat Jibrail appeared to change salallahoallewassaum's life forever at forty, just at the end of his life he instructed to all his followers that holy quran is their spiritual light

On Farhat Ishtyaq

Farhat ishtyaq is the moon among a cluster of new risen brilliant urdu writers in the past decade, she invents characters she wants to have in real life around her, perfectly idealistic, she believes new generation is losing interest in reading and glue to TV , woman has changed her lifestyle from being just a fulltime housewife to an office goer, lecturer, to labourer, farmer who shares man's load and burden, but orient culture is fading away rapidly as education is equating with getting modernised on western patterns

Fun-e-Zaiqa

Zaiqa has to be cultivated, usually healthy nourishing diet is ignored for better mouth watering spicy cuisines, this edition present milk - providing better source of xalcium in natural form available in a variety of flavours of almonds, zafraan, ilaichi, carrots, akhrot and winding up with fish koftas

Pakiza Anchal-February

Ghazala Siddiqui in her opening lines--Urdu is enchanting, Urdu is exotic, it does not though belong to any particular community or religion, it belongs to all those who enjoy urdu as their medium of expression of thought, what is religion without constant patience, unending thankfulness to fortify faith of humanity

Azim Himaqat

Afridi is back on his case with a new piece of expert detective work, he successfully solves how science can also destroy enemy countries with germ warfare

Jaha-e-Baqa

karaki is on the run with Nimo, both are running away to safety, adventure unfolds on their way, description of landscapes, food they carry, water bottle , and tribal customs in exotic cultures make it a most beautiful read

From Page 296

Ghazal by shayarah Sarah Huma Sheikh--
Dil mein ranj o ghamke hain ambaar bahut,
Jaise apne kam hainaur aghyar bahut,
Soch ke rakhna paon ishq ki waadi mein,
Iss mein phool hain thode lekin khaar bahut,
Tum to aik hi pal mein sab bhool gaye,
Lekin hum ko hai matloob adwaar bahut,
Aahein , naale , aansu, aur kasak dil ki,
Tere liye hai nazranah ye char bahut,
Tum ne to poocha hi nahin haal kabhi,
Warna hum ne kiya tha izhaar bahut,
Dil gulshan mein phool wafah kekhilte hain ,
Mere har sau rehti hai mehekagr bahut,
Ab to huma aa jaotaab nahin baqi,
Bin tere rehte hain hum bezaar bahut

Dusra Rukh

Caroline is a young model, she was pursuing another carrier, she is good and forced into another line by a blackmailer who gives her instructions on phone, she is threatened, she is asked to meet a contact in a hotel where the man approaches her on the pretext of taking her autograph as its his hobby he claims when he is stopped by Emmie a newfound friend at the hotel