Tum Se Hain Silsile

Beautiful story by Maryam Aziz that tracks a loving affectionate family in which Aswah is brought up along with her age group kids -adil, sadya whose elder brother mehran is halku khaan the terror in the eyes of aswah who hates learning, ignores studies, is pampered by the whole family, and it is decided that she be married to mehran before he leaves for his higher studies abroad

musafir Laut Aya Hai

A complete wholesome story by Rukh Chaudhary, Shehnil works in a multi national company, so does, Noful husan, she dreams of good life so does he, she is highly qualified MBA, so is he a hardworking selfrespecting honest executive, but she is also the daughter of the boss, life can unfold gems unexpectedly before one, the decision lies in his hands to accept or reject the opportunity , what one seeks in life is found if at his own threshold should it be discarded? Understanding one"s own intentions, is very important, crucial to building solid lifelong relationships, hollowness of one"s own weaknesses usually do not let him grow any further, rich ness of togetherness is the gate to heavens, fabric of bonding with the right person enhances life quality, sometimes its imperative to take a step backwards to go forward but how long it takes to seep in is just the point, objectively one as a spectator sees what he fails to see as a participant, but finally returning taking right turnings, changing attitudes, turning humble, dropping the vainity and ego helps tremendously , at least Noful Husan finds that out , not by himself, after all experiences give tests first and teaches lessons afterwards sometimes more successfully

Khwabon Ke Aine

A peephole for the reader to see a woman specimen through a family in kerachi , full of children , grand children, maryam is the daughter of the family , ordinary, with mediocre looks, qualities, talent, her two brothers are married , one in saudi arab, the other in multan, three sisters are reachable at walking distance within fifteen minutes, who dump themselves quite often in the house , during winters when it is pleasantly cool in kerachi, maryam is a good cook, caretaker and extends hospitality as she is still unmarried, looking after her sisters" kids, every guest expects they be entertained attentively, sometimes it is demanding , challenging maryam's patience, testing her skills, she prays for a small family for herself at her husband's place, and that is what she gets, just him , is it not sufficient to be happy? The more one wants from life the more unhappier he becomes, who has actually seen his future, it reveals itself. noone likes revolving guests at home , specially if they are interfering types, whether they are siblings, in laws or parents, woman wants absolute freedom of choice, guidance from others is interpreted as disturbance, strength of character is to understand priorities of duties, responsibilities, working constantly on them to maintain healthy atmosphere, maryam who was running her parental home suddenly feels at a loss when a neighbourly woman enters her home after marriage

Jaan-E-Jaan Tu Jo Kahe

The serial by rahat wafa --through a looking glass Samya and farhaan attend a secret walimah - reception party with farhaan's parents and brother at a luxury hotel , their fears are not without a reason, because ammaji wants zartashya and farhaan to get married,

Fun-E-Zaiqa

Tingle your palate this season with kebab-chawal, chicken pasta soup, indonesian glades chicken, maida laddus, hyderabadi mirchon ka salan, mughlai dehli nihari, mooli-paalak, and serve proudly to your family and friends, take the bows and their jealous wows

Yeh Rishtey Apne Hain

The story by Lareb Momin opens in a joint family set up, the newly wedded bride is a a stranger still after her twenty five days of nuptial vows , the arranged marriage was fixed by her grandfather who died a month ago, when she was born her mother had run away from home discarding her to become an actress, seeing her third grade film her father shot himself, the reason she was brought up by her grandfather who sent her to a boarding school and when she longed for a home he asked her to complete her graduation, and Umar a surgeon known to the family was chosen as the right suitor for her, but the women in the in laws household hated her mother for her cheap behaviour , and decided like mother like daughter she too one day put them to shame, but her father-in law --abbu advises her to take up all the responsibilities of the woman, wifely duties, and become a neccessity to Umar, she starts by waiting for him late till he returns from his private clinic, to serve him hot meals, followed with a steaming cup of tea, in morning getting up before him to ready his clothes, bath and breakfast, surprising the husband who was so far doing all that himself

Apna Ghar

By masroor Jehaan, do what you love , love what you do, you are what you do, Shafi is rejected by arshan educated abroad, rich modern fashion loving young man, with a bright future needs a woman who would not disgrace him in society, should be able to move properly to assist him like shreya who is a night club singer, ultrafashionable, the society she moves in is also mixed with shamelessness an asset to modern culture, shafi is married to his elder brother whose wife died leaving her two kids behind her, shafi if refuses to marry there are three younger sisters waiting in line for their marriages , proposals are not coming in because shafi has been rejected, every one tries to find fault in girls of others' she marries zishan, shafi endowed with all virtues and inner qualities of a good person becomes the pivot of the whole family, or is it a revenge in disguise , of shafi, or destiny , on arshan?

Name Of Allah

There are two sections in the mind, one is positive the other negative, if the darker forces are dominant the good side is crushed, that is the reason the name of Allah can empower one to be connected to Him , as a result he is not effected or tormented by the opposing forces

Namrah Ahmed

on Namrah Ahmed --a budding blossom in paradise of urdu literature spreading out natural fragrance of beauty and stylish writings, her heroines in her short stories are idealistic oriental women adorned with all that is missing in western modern societies, blessed with patiece and tolerance of unending faith it is shere joy reading her views and stories which set equation in right proportion to the standards of pakeeza anchal

Pakiza Anchal-April

Let Allah almighty guide us through life in honesty and dignity against corrupted ways, our nation is facing more dangerous than terrorism times with adulteration, inflation and non cultural modern society evolving rapidly, in such times the role played by pakiza anchal that of a guide leading one from dark passages to lighted goals elevating him in status and calibre of ethical values , that are lasting

Purisraar Chikhein

Moody was a son of a big shot, as a property manager he goes to the east , though his actual motive is to satiate his thirstying drunkard soul, driving aimlessly at a very slow speed even a kid could get in through the car door, he one dark evening hears the back car door shutting up loudly, he switches on the light to which a female trembling voice cries miserably out begging him to put it off back again

Sharif Dhokahbaaz

The story opens in 1944 scotlandyard office on detective gardner approached by mrs smith a wealthy socialite who tells him how she was duped by " champagne charlie"--jones who had innumerable aliases, he asked her to give him five thousand pounds for catching the absconding personal secretary of hitler

Aseeb

Presented by M.A.Rahat--The power of creation , of the living , of the dead, Shahaab of beherin goes to meet his missing father in pakistan, his father is dead, was found in a friend ramzi's house about whom noone knows , shahaab takes out a picture from his coat , he sees a thirty year old woman stealing it and disappearing in the wash room, , puzzled he tries to connect ramzi to his father, his father to the woman in the picture, the woman in the picture with the one who disappears in the wash room, he also finds out he is being stalked , by someone in a land cruisor, he buys himself a car, the new driver is a regular god fearing chap, he is given a place in the annexe, he risses early to offer his namaaz , while shahaab takes his morning stroll, they have tea together, the driver tells him there live other creatures besides human species that they should not be bothered for they too are god"s creations, he happens to know a highly knowledgeable person residing near wagha border, in which shahaab requests he be taken to him.

Patherila Raaz

A mystery case of grave diggers by malik safdar hayaat, who narrates a firsthand account of when he was posted in rustam pur, southern punjab , a wet drizlly day an elderly widow comes early morning , who tells him that she had seen a dead body clad in a white shroud washing his feet at her handpump in the backyard , usually she sleeps in the yard but because of the drizzle she had to spend a sleepless mosquito infected night in the room, the body after washing and cleaning up himself picked up a bag taking the path towards the stream, later in the office comes nawaz ali whose father the chaudhary who had died just four days ago , his grave had been neatly cut open , the light rain seeping through was destroying the body but it was not fidgeted with, though younger chaudhary looked quite perturbed, the caretaker of the graveyard had spent his life there , he informs the story teller that there was a small box burried with the body that was missing, finally nawaaz ali confesses he had been given by his father a small lockless box to be burried with his father"s body as nawaz"s mother"s sentimental gift, naturally curious nawaz had taken a look at it -a piece of small bosky silken kerchief emroidered at the center , a heart in red thread , the edges in blue, as per his father's last wishes the box containing the silken cloth was burried, but why, and who would steal that , going so much out of the way, taking risk just to get that piece of embroidery?

Parwaaz

Khawar is sure he saw wali ji there, he asks shadaan about there connection to him, shadaan and her sisters were very small when their drunkard father is killed in an accident, the girls think its because their mother was absolutely fantastic person , her tolerance was beyond

human comprehension, mother widowed young was taken in by her mother working at the haveli of wali ji, mother was adjusted as the new housekeeper, the elder sister was very obedient and loyal to waliji, whose first wife left him, the second one was asya the elder sister's age sixteen, there was a terrible flood during one monsoon, wali ji brought help, asya was seeing in wali ji what she was missing in her family set up, so.. shadaan tells him the closely guarded secret involving the dead girl, wali ji, and their entire family

Gardaab

Sheheryar is assistant police commisioner , he eets chaudhary"s daughter in the hospital visiting wounded aftaab , who is told not to worry about the scool building as it is not his personal project , sheheryar also finds chaudhary's sister with qurbaan being chased into a wood as sheheryar is passing by, he saves qurbaan and protects the girl from qurbaan"s savage brother

Darindah

Najmah tells the narrator who is forced by circumstances into the world of crime , he is good at heart but still a robber being chased by the police, he witnesses a foreign lady diplomat being assassinated by taji and shakil, the host country is blamed and put to shame for the diplomat's killing, najmah "s recent past is linked to taji , rashka"s to the dead diplomat"s and also to taji, the narrator is quite cleverly joining the pieces together soom he would be able to hopefully solve the mystery why the diplomat was killed , the secret of the locket, and connection of taji to the assassination

Sadaa Loh

Gillian is a simpleton whose father was a drug peddlar killed by his associate who treacherously takes off with all their share, Gillian can"t be used as an underworld operator for it needs calibre, intelligence and cunning skills to be there, but he is approached because he looks and behaves silly noone specially the police would never be suspicious of him in this trade, he has a good friend in Murphy who helps him out when one small pouch of powder in a cigarette case is scattered and dampened spoiled and spoiled he is afraid of consequences , the packet is replaced by them both, but the real packet is not damaged and is still in the cabinet safe and it does not contain drugs, queeny -mother of the boy finds out and ...the story takes a turn, drama , suspense thrill all ingredients for the reader to enjoy a hearty meal for the good soul and happy mind

Purana Zakhm

Afroz is happily married to a policeman, is grateful to have a normal life with an infant in her arms, she is not aware someone like suleman is stalking her, her ex lover she realises is not truthful , not sincere or he would have married her, not have destroyed her, not left her with his child, and would never have attempted to impose himself on her now that she was married to someone else to ruin her life, afroz takes a decision..only a woman of substance can take to save her home and domestic bliss

Pandora Box

Bank robbery storyline by anwar siddiqui, Fawn with his friends breaks into the bank from a publisher"s office , they pick up all that can be sold off easily , which have no tags or stamps or seem of great extraordinary importance and value, diamonds, currency notes, and liquer, and finally taking a swig of it not remembering to keep off from touching the bottle of liquer without gloves , one friend leaves his finger prints there before putting his gloves on back on his hand, they also find pictures in a sealed box , of their senator in compromising situation with various women, surprised they add them to their loot and quickly empty the room as they must escape before two hours are over, unaware that one certain informer has already called up the miami police lieutinent Morgan about this brewing up

Tamaasha-e- Zer

The narrator is Khuram -a MBA qualified trustworthy young handsome man -son of a respectable honest man, he is working as manager in farakh"s multinational comapany, farakh's new Private secretary promises the narrator to get married to him, the entire staff is partying when the boss calls him in to tell him she is his fiancee, which she confirms, the narrator is shamed and thrown out, where ever he seeks another employment he has to face dishonour , farakh is stalking him, newspapers , posters, reach everywhere before khuram with farakh's version charring his reputation

Khun Aasham

A romanian set story in seventeenth century when all villages had been war raveged , but one certain remote village in romania faced another kind of problem, people were disappearing suddenly

Muhabbet KI Quvat

a murder mystery by alaf siddiqui, Life is a blessing or a curse depending upon one's associates---Lady abadaldin is a criminal advocate who is a specialist in solving murder cases, Tahirah a young attractive woman who approaches her , regarding Rahat Beg her brother -in-law who is murdered by her mother bijli bai and uncle, for rahat beg"s wealth, but the matter is hushed up and the case closed down as an accidental death , the drums had fallen over him and the uncle killing rahat beg

-from previous-

Mac as Silver on bus meets christie and her son tom, mac hurts his knee and is taken to hospital in springdales where christie:s father has a farm, mac is contacted by rocky through a girl operator who finds out his location, rocky is a rising underworld man hired by the mafia men whose black money mac was laundering and steals on line dividing the ammount to five parallel accounts as he can"t use ATM for twentyfive million dollars, so in twenty days he must encash the money he has transfered to his various accounts but before that rocky has been also immediately put to stalk him within ten days before they lose mac forever

Besammat

By Kashif Zuber---

Mac-O-Neal comes out from his bank , returning the salute of the guard with his greetings to meet him the next day, catching a cab mac reaches a hotel from where he takes another cab and starts to change his appearance in the cab , when he gets down at a low profile area he appears equally at ease , he had turned from an outstanding rich personality to a commoner , again not entering the block he had exitted he crosses the road, across where he has an apartment where he colours his blonde hair dark red and blue eyes he hid behind dark lenses, packing up his old clothes in a shopper he dumps the bag at the garbage bin nearby, he carries his brief case and gets into a bus, changing the buses seems a habit , he opens his I-phone and connects to his internet banking account, he had twenty five million dollars displayed on touchscreen, he had a secure future with a new identity

Huma-March

One gets up in the morning just to hear a scream -inflation going down like a hot drop tearing you to pieces, everything from basic necessity to luxury item"s price is skyrocketing yet Huma is still providing refreshingly mental healthy tonic to its readers better than daily provisions, inshallah it would continue to maintain its high standards at reasonable affordable costs

Muhabbet Humsafar Meri

Both Saram and Annie talk on phone pretending they are classmates discussing lost lesson notes , annie"s mother is oppoed to their getting married but fathers have agreed, marriages are becoming status symbols and quick investments , partners actively seek more from their demanding relationships m lifelong marriages are turning conditional give and take types of companionships nstead of sacrificial commitments

Sheher-e-Dil

Life is a book one needs to read like an open book before you, Manaal is desparate to marry just and only dayam who is engaged to sandas, humza sends his family to talk to manaal"s to finalise the date of marriage before he leaves for a trip to japan, both fa,ilies discuss happily when manaal picks up a fruit knife and threatens to kill herself if her wedding is fixed with humza , she obstinately refuses to get married to him , bringing shame and embarassment to her family

Mein Abdul Qadir

Bright flashes of light blind one, a reason he chooses to stay in dark after which normal light also seems painful, A Q unintentionally waits for Nell every day in his apartment in england , as she washes ,cleans up, dries the dishes before putting them back in the cabinet she asks him what a strange name he had A and Q, he laughingly says hers were rhyming with hell, Nell softly explains the meaning of her name was synonymous to light, abdul qadir-AQ for short thinks aloud it should have been load shedding, Nell was a product of jamaican mother , english father, who divorced when she was just four, her grandparents had a restaurant in jamaica

Fun-E-Zaiqa

Kheema stuffed Ghobhi, Baked whole pomfret, khajoor-coconut balla, Murghi-paalak, Paalak-balls, Chaamp ( chops) kadhaahi, Chicken yaghni pallao, andon ka halwah, who is there who would not want to have them all?

Pul-E- Sarat

Elina is wedded to the doctor whose cherished dream was to marry her but in hers there was no place for him, marriages are not aggressively one sided relationships, to lasting lifelong happiness mutually undertood partnership, reciprocal attitude is indespensable , if she were not married to him she would have been disposed off somewhere else , each family member thinks of his own personal gain, in some way, the father of his own dignity, aunts of their own involvement, the groom of his personal desires fulfilment, she of her lost faith, lost love

Mein Akeli Nahin

By Asyah Razaaq-Harim is well -to-do young woman , because of her father"s touring job she has been to many countries, she is exposed to international culture, she is sent to a relative"s family to spend her time with them, she compares their fish curry as so much watery that fish could actually swim in it, they even have to share their beds with others, sometimes their place seems overcrowded to her, she misses cakes when tea is served with plain dry rusks, italian dishes flavour , aroma of other favourite dishes, international continental cuisines back at her own home tempt her , she makes fun of simple living but her parents try to explain and make her understand that every household has certain personality of its own, they feel they are flawless, idealistic, nothing to worry or bother to change, they are accustomed to their way of lifestyle

Guzar Chuka Hai Tere Aitbaar Ka Mausam

By Saima Akram--Shamina and Farzana are two close friends , married off together , farzana bore sons in quick succession, shamina on the other hand had tanya and thirteen years later ajya, who is liked by farzana"s youngest son -Adi then four , shmaina dies and tanya raises her litlle sister as her own child, above soni and moni, further ajya is a lecturer, she decides to go on a trip, her co - lecturer was not able to make her go with her, but ajya suddenly changes her mind because adi is returning after five years from abroad on sunday , the trip for two weeks starts just one day before on saturday, she needs to escape meeting him,

-from previous-

The new serial --Life is a jigsaw puzzle , it presents itself to one in pieces, one must join it perfectly , relations are ties that can produce the complete picture , if one is unable to understand his family friends and those who matter so much without whom this life would be meaningless, he would be a disaster, zartashya likes farhaan since long, he is her dream man, but he has secretly married samya twice divorced older to him woman , not her fault that she is divorced, the first husband was found by her father before he died she was married off, later he proved he had just used her to get her wealth and property to settle with his first wife divorcing her eventually, the second one was a professionally qualified doctor who married her to again settle down abroad with his second wife, samya being a great beauty , well educated and young but unfortunate shifts to a women"s hostle working as a lady professor found by farhaan in the library who married her quietly, comes home the next day to tell his father he is married

Jaan Jaan Nu Jo Kahe

By Rahat Wafaa, Whoever is successful is happy, and who is truly successful is a big question, a rising in status working woman considers herself better , finds her entire happiness depends on her identity independent of others, at home she is a failure , as a housewife she is incompatible, at a loss , her children and husband and family dont miss her as she is never there to look after their needs, taking charge of her office work she feels competent, at home she is not in control , controlling is not just giving commands or taking commands or being in position to give permission or being superior, the head is the one who coordinates all systems properly, handling problems, motivating others never pushing or imposing or bullying his coworkers at home or in office, treating family like colleagues , colleagues as family, taking charge of all responsibilities, and their smooth functioning , not taking credit, yet being supportive, caring

Bullawah

Story by Seema Manaaf--The world is full of people of all sorts, parties are also full of people but each one is lost without a friendly face , aquaintances give so much meaning to a party or one is so lonesome, like Saram in his cousin samir's house, he meets narmeein another lonely soul, so beautiful, so graceful , so pure, she too attends the party as a duty , enjoying is impossible when one performs duties,

Akahi Ka Suraj

A story by Samira Bukhari--Aziz is comapritively not as handsome and dashing as his friend Raashid, who has invaded into their married life , he is quite imposing, demanding and selfish man, aziz is soft hearted polite and courteous , the wife feels he is rather timid and looks sickly , comparing the two of them she likes the friend"s personality more, but it is her husband who cares for her, pampers her and is sensitive to her needs , with the new year her thinking changes , with the new sun dawns on her that a hero is not he who looks good but the one who does good

Talaash

Life is a long journey, an endless search, where it seems the destination and objective is reached another long search begins, jannat begum raises sabahat, she is to marry harun , sabahat finds her real lost parents, harun finds his true parentage, instead of being content and satisfied with life, these discoveries uncover new prolonged hurts, with the climax this episode ends the novel beautifully

Istghafaar

Repenting honestly realising one"s sinful deeds , quoting the holy quran , it explains that merciful almighty allah allows him whoever asks forgiveness , sustaining him , providing life support from there onwards,

Is Dil Ke Tukade Hazaar

Najmah Shakir outlines how people dream to better their own lives and those of their near and dear ones by going abroad to raise funds for their future happiness, they are missed, Suhaila prides in looking after the house hold chores , it gives her self satisfaction and a sense of closeness that she lends her personal touch to every thing, zuber and she are attached emotionally looking forward to a life together, a dream that gives her a lot of joy and when she answers his phone call he tells her the floor she mops scrubbing it to shine like a clear mirror must reflect his image in it causes a giggle of pure happiness to escape from her that rippling laughter resounding like a waterfall, he informs her he is planning to go abroad , to become wealthy, so she wont have to do the house keeping again

Maha Malik

Maha meaning the moon is conducive to cooling effect, this also influences maha malik a famous upcoming urdu writer whose first short story was published when she was in third standard as her calibre is high, after marriage she found she had a full time housewifery to shoulder before she could persue her dream to continue to be a writer, speaking with ghazala siddiqui she explains a carefree unmarried girl weds to the entire set up, it is up to her to adjust , and perform her duties, though times have changed but the relationships have not, they stay the same way, human bonding remains the same

March-Pakeeza Anchal

It is all due to the hard work and efforts of siddiqui and siddiqui publishers that pakiza anchal, huma urdu digest and other magazines by them are so popular in asia region, readership is growing actively and its response is positive

Farhaadvi

Both kasim and hamid are at a restaurant, hamid wants to get rid of kasim, he is sent on a trail to follow the fat man exitting to find out who he is, where he lives and other details if kasim wants to be a good detective, kasim says as a beginner its too much of a job and he would just try find out his permanent location and whereabouts, hamid worries as he recalls once kasim's wife had gone to her parental home when a poet began visiting kasim , as a struggler he wanted kasim to listen and appreciate his poetry, kasim put a lock on the outside and hid himself , every time the poor poet dropped by thinking kasim was not at home returned, when came hamid he pressed the doorbell long enough, kasim shouted angrily if he was blind and could not see the lock on the door, made hamid worry acutely what if kasim got tired of folloeing his target and asked him to get lost quick, or was he a roaming nomad without a house to get in

Darindah

the protagonist narrates to his woman associate and friend who is an ex-police cop that they should find out how and why madam washka was killed, the man who helped her take up the housekeeper"s job in the lebanese diplomat's household should be questioned about everything he knows regarding to the dead woman's secrets, as why she had stored so much wealth in her rooms, is it not possible she was on a secret spying mission against israel and on being discovered she was removed by taji who had identified the narrator"s locket as washka"s

Jasoos

Spy story by muhammed afaan, some jobs are done for incentives, others require motivated people who dont care for rewards, gorky was trained as a russian spy by bronoff, their city was under seige, the little boy was starving, he gets food for his sick invalid mother from the army camps where the soldiers have a lavish life, he polishes their shoes first for money, he is motivated by bronoff , seeing his inborn intelligence suitable for a spy, the boy does his job without expecting any rewards or incentives, getting information about german enemy camps during the world war

Aseeb

A close encounter of the haunting type by M. A Rahat, the narration moves on by the young man from baharin in pakistan come to find his father is buried as a destitute murdered in a friend"s house , the owner of which is never seen by anyone in te colony, instructions are given to the manager directly who opens the house to the narrator"s father, looking for nothing in particular he finds some hair strands of unidentifies species which the officer investigator claimed were not there earlier, the son also found in a suit of his father hanging neatly in the cupboard a picture of the woman he had seen on his arrival disappearing somewhere in the wall of his bedroom, he brings it home secretly not disclosing it to anyone, when he enters his room again he sees the same woman in picture running away from his room , she had been checking out his clothes pockets