Ghazal -page 289

Ye soch ke shikast pe hum muskra diye-

Nakamiyon ne jeet ke gur sikha diye-

Aane ki thi ummeed, na aane ka yakin-Hum ne kai chiragh jela ke bujha diye-

Ik khudkeshi ka sab ko bata-te phiro jewaaz-

Iss zindgi ne kitne misail badha diye-

Koshish yehi hai khatm na ho ye mezahamat-

Kitne megar hawaa se laden-ge diye?-

Kasya badmast sheher ki galiyon mein ghoomte-

Goya guzer gaye hain zamaane sadaa diye huye-

Tu aks ki talaash mein hum tak pahunch gaya-

Tujh ko to aik umr hui aina diye huye-

Derya tha dost raaz,ussi se tujhe baant-te--

Awraaq kuch bayaaz se phare , behaa diye-

Us ne baraya haath, mujhe thamna parha-

Honthon ne barh ke haath pe jugnu seja diye-

Tum se keha tha, kaanch ke hain--

Tum ne to mere khwab zamin pe gira diye

Wajihya shani

By Shaukat Thanvi-page 242

O, My Dear Child, do not be born,

Remember you shall regret living

You got right but be sensible

Let me be grateful , dont be born

For if you arrive what shall you eat,

Empty of grain the land is drained

Be good just dont be born,

For your useless idle family can"t afford you

Your innumerable siblings cram the world

Wailing, squeeling, squeezing around

My life flame burns low

For lack of fuel consume

Some keep pets uncounted

How much they are fed is unaccounted

My Dear Soul, My Child, dont be born human

Be born where you will be looked after, taken care of.

Adhaa Teeter

A good natured , funny, humourously flavoured story by Ibn --Imran is unmarried, his sister is getting engaged to a doctor , they pride in being descendants of chenghez khan a mongol shepherd, better known and remembered in history lessons for his cruelty and dictatorial nature, it is defined that any man who marries becomes poor timid and sheepish, but their ancestors married more than nine wives , keeping them all happy , needed diplomatic , wise, judgement, making the man experienced enough to rule wisely over his people , such men were bestowed with a special title of LION HEARTED , after having so many wives they still had capacity for more, but present time husbands are not suitable for such practises, as one nagging wife is more than enough to kill him

Tadib

A definition on honesty in work by Ahmed siddiqui--The night guard was in his thirties , he immediately wanted to tell the manager about his prophetic dream, , the dream in the beginning seemed useless , but the guard had seen the manager falling off from the river bridge in the train he commuted

Choohe Daan

A story by Maryam K Khan about greedy rats who get into a trap , luring such petty thieves as Carl and benson for some positive research purpose in life for useful aims , society can become much healthier

Aseeb

A power packed story thriller mind stimulating, by M A Rahat--Imtyaz ahmed was missing, his family arrives to find him dead, they are very wealthy, in their posh car they go on a visiting spree to meet old connections, the aunts live in a simple humble abode in rural remote area, they have to introduce each other before they all hug and embrace sentimentally each other , the news of imtyaz ahmed "s demise comes as a shock to the aunts who start trembling at their huge emotional life support , imtyaz had done lots of favours to them

Ladka, Ladki Aur Log

By Nawaz Khan--reminiscenses the narrator , when he was posted at his police station , it was a normal day , his constables were busy, head constables were there, one was sharing his life experiences with his firnds, when the narrator heard a lewd movie song on the lips of a passer by, whose tone was loaded with drunkardness, he in front of his station sttod leaning agaist a pole and flung fowl words in air, nawaz khan an experienced officer intuitively knew he was not either drunk, nor feared his behaviour and intentionally for a reason let them take him to the office to throw him behind the bars

Bagule

By M A Rahat--Life is a flight pf time, it can be viewed positively or negatively, one can be thrown out of power, the changes can either be for good and betterment in right direction , progressive , or can bring down the entire community to its cruel end, without future,

Khala Ka Burqa

A weird incident leading to many other written in a hilarious mood by Ahmed Iqbaal,-- a captain of a ship in 1956 was saved along with his crew, the captain was investigated the reasons of the ship wreck, there was a sudden rain that showered a water buffaloe, on the ship , the captain was declared mad , a liar and sent to prison, thirtysix years later a pilot of airforce amphebian wrote his autobigraphy that he had during fifties carried water to shower on forest fire, and once he picked up a water buffalo that he had to , to maintain his balance shower before the fire , by that time the captain had died

Taqaza-e Insaaf

Billie in his work shop after an accidental atomic explosion discovers a strange ring of unidentifiable substance, as black as it can be possible, , putting a hook he observes it brought out objects from another dimension and different time zones, it gets stolen , jim later urges billie to take it away from him before jim is attacked and killed , billie is the accused facing charges of murdering his neighbour

Lahu Ke Rang

A deep registration of suspense mystery by Alaf Siddiqui, Salha Abdulkarim is the criminal lawer extraordinaire, who takes up just murder cases , her associate mazhar ali approaches requesting her to solve a case of fraud that smells of murder of mehr banu whose husband claims her parental property, to solve it takes courage of conviction, strength of character, mukhtar was not married to mehr banu, she had never been married to anyone

Ahetyaatpasand

Bunny was a petty thief, the first time he was caught and sentenced for stealing a burger, second time it was for removing a chain from around a woman's neck, for such thieves judges also have no sympathy, or time to spare, he lived on a seventh floor apartment in a building full of criminals and sex workers, Bunny believed in using brains instead of force ,when the lift was out of function he had to climb some two fifty steps up , one day he climbed up and was out of his breath, he stopped to take a deep breath when he heard a stifled noise in his room, he sneaked downstairs quietly someone was in with not right intentions, when he reached the ground he was bundled forcibly and taken to a den in newyork, , the city was divided in mafiatic zones yet there were gang wars, he is suggested he had to play a corpse for five thousand dollars

From Previous--

Mathews finds his girl friend missing from the car, her crystals scattered everywhere, the truck had driven away, the driver was making ugly threatening gestures at check post, mathews sped up his car, he also lost signal while he reported in english as the operator on the other side spoke just polish or slavik, it was impossible situation

Tangamad

Mathews is a londoner, he works and part time studies in the university, jones notices his intelligence and ability to grasp and attaches him with himself as his assistant, mathews is driving with his girl friend eline starting from france through germany, crossing over to czhec republic , to poland to slavakia to ukrain, his destination is the black sea

From Previous---

Khawar on a cold dry early winter morning waits at a roadside for balqis and chaudhary aziz to pass by, he wants to tell them to trust him that he had not in any way killed either shamina or sherwar, balqis already knows that , aziz tells they have helped shift his mother and sister to a safer place, khawar shares his experiences with his father"s trusted friend Rafaqat with whom he is staying, at night he hears the elederly couple discussing him, they were afraid of his presence in the house, , khawar leaves next morning

Parwaaz

Chaudhary Khawar wants to find out why and what shamina has testified against him, as sherwr is killed, shamina narrates accurately she had seen him fighting her, but not stabbing her, later masked men barge in , khawar flees , he gets the news of shamina also being murdered, if only she had been given a second chance to correct her statement , it would have cleared his name, for every thing witnessed can be repeated verbally but necessarily is not always the reality

From Previous--

Charlie junior in 2009 opens his ancestral ancient boxes, there he had seen a diary , but he then had no time to go through it, now his stock market company had crashed, he was declared bankrupt, he had enough time to read it, dusty with age , he was the sixth generation grandson of the pirate charlie

Asal Qazaaq

A story by Maryam K Khaan opens in 1850 London , flavoured and scented tastefully of past events--Charlie was a twenty year old young man whose father decides to migrate to america, disposing off whatever they had saved from giving off their debts they sail as in those days steam ships had not been developed , the jouney was long tiring going around through the carribean west indies isles qazaaq pirates infested troubled waters , where they were attacked by pirates, three brothers including charlie were taken away as hostages who would be used by the qazaaq pirates on board for hard tasks if he would cooperate to spy on the ships in harbour to identify which carried gold giving his master an indication he would along with his brothers soon be released

Tamashager

A greenhouse of humid human sentimentalities by Manzar Imam. Abira lives a life in solitude, not out of her choice but it is forced on her by murad her father of huge mansion , her mother elina was guilty of adultery found by murad who starts hating his friend and turns his mansion a prison for his only daughter who is innocent, one day she finds a reporter sherjal in a fever lying faint under a tree , she helps him secretly into one of many unused rooms , she looks after him nurturing him back to health, feeding him from her room refridgerator that is always ov er stuffed with cottage cheese, milk, fruit and juices,

raghu is planning with his female mastermind friend to get abira out some how from the secure prison walls of her territory , he confides in his friends if this plan works out they all would get huge shares to relish for the rest of their lives

Shikari

The story by Muhammed Ahmed Modi opens on williams and elina going on a trip with jacob and his wife to arizona, william is married seven years and is annoyed with his wife elina who wants a divorce, when they had planned the trip two weeks ago all was normal but suddenly some conflict erupted , they were childless couple, jacob also was child less yet just married two years, at a remote place they find their car engine failed, they go to the nearby station where they have to spend the night, on every room TV just one scene of a couple being murdered is telecasted, they observe it is their own room setting, a knocking sound is heard at the door that is locked, the sound increases to thudding , on openeing the door they find nobody, thinking it must be the other couple they ask them if they had knocked and run away quickly from the corridor,

from previous---

Sherwat returns safely home from her abductors" captivity managing to flee, but becomes an innocent target of society, its true crime and criminals can be stopped using force but wagging tongues of gossipers is impossible , a woman sympathiser showed her concern disguising her starved senses , wanted more of such stories suppressed details , suggested she be taken for medical tests, newspapers flooded exaggerated stories peeling shervet's dignity , the family was put to shame , friends were troubled but the boys were secretly admired , politicians had extended their secure hand around them calling them fools to draw attention on themselves, sherwet had escaped from the culprits but the safety of her own community had mangled her

Lalkaar

Tahir Javed Mughal showcases his main character of Tabaz-a young man born weak, grows up thin weakly sickly , who joins martial arts school at anarkali shifted from urdu bazar, one day he takes his fiancee to a restaurant where Waji and his gang follow tabaz and shervet, verbal abuses directed towards them intentionally provoking them , discouraging them to again meet , shervet is abducted who escapes from her cell brought back by tabaz

June -Huma

Beautiful flights of Huma take its readers to reach out to new worlds of imagination, the burning lamp of huma illuminates steadily in this inflation turmulent climate,

bringing urdu language's cultural ethics to the readers

Hazrat Balaal

An introduction to hazrat balaal"s life by salim ghilani director radio pakistan, hazrat balaal was a descendent of slaves, born to be sold and bought, his master abu saifan appeared soft gentle and silent a reason to fear, balaal one day was ordered to punish a new slave who was being trained tamed and made into one by abu saifan, something pure pious fearless in the eyes of the man fallen on the floor , with his head lifted up towards him ,as demanding his rightful , not hung as a slave"s should, though his appearance was wrapped up in sorrowful dignified helplessness, hazrat balaal threw down his whip , he rebelled to lash him , amaar dragged himself and himself handed out the whip saying to balaal if he refused to follow his master"s orders he would be punished, yet that day balaal became a changed man, a born slave , son of a slave turned himself into someone different, his master was no longer his master, his master"s power had no more affect on him

abu saifan asked amaar what his god muhammed preached--amaar replied sal-allah-o-alle-wassalum preached to worship just one allah almighty, for every human being was an equal, , balaal thought instead he should have quoted other points like tell the truth, be good, be kind to all or not such ones as would anger abu saifan, looking at the circumstances they were in

From Muhahbbet Humsafar meri

Shehzadi is a typical over clever newly wedded wife of naved, she tries to cut up family ties by segregating each member, complaining against her in laws, moaning before guests, mother-in-law allows her to separate her kitchen , yet shehzadi expects they cook and serve her, she hates mixing with friends of the family, secretly having her favourite dishes not sharing with anyone, always lying that sisters - in- law in their meals had rich healthy food she was not given

Poem By Khalidah Nasim

Tum jeb bhi ayina dekho to meri ankh se dekho

Chatkhte hain shagufe keb ye meri aankh se dekho

Khile hain phool gulshen mein teri rukhsaar ko chhoo ker

Gulabon per saji surkhi ye meri aankh se dekho

Kebhi jo bhool ke tum hens deti ho khyalon mein

Bhenwar pardhtey hain gaalon mein ye meri...ye meri aankh se dekho

Khule balon ko chherdha hai mest hewa ke khonkon ne

Jo halah hai chand ke gird ye ...meri aankh se dekho

Chemktey hain tumhari aankh ke jugnu to phir un mein

khulus o muhr ke jazbe ye...meri aankh se dekho

Muhabbet Humsafar meri ye meri aankh se dekho

muhabbet humsafar Meri

Danya plans to make friends with reza in , they live in the same building, so she extends a hand of friendship to his sister student in her institute, rahela is not aware of her scheming , she leaves her out when reza offers a lift back home, but reza invites danya,

Muhabbet Humsafar Meri

In rais Manzil building sayadah lives alone yet strong enough woman young unmarried with her ailing mother , her brother is ruled by his wife , who have thrown them out , mother dies and the funeral someone suggested took place starting from brother"s house, but sayah speaks out the funeral would take in the building where the mother lived and died

Mein Abdul Qadir Hun

Abdul qadir stops his car at a red sign at a crossing and shadanah reminds him of rukhsana , whose mother had firmly informed him she was dead and buried, on abdul's surprise on not knowing of her sudden demise she had said that rukhsana herself does not know she was dead, and if he ever happened to meet someone resembling her he should tell that woman that she was dead, shadana takes front passenger seat next to his, abdul remarks is she not deceiving her parents who had been so loving caring and affectionate to her and her twin sister, that he while growing up had envied them for having such parents

Jaan-e-Jaan Tu Jo Kahe

Samya and farhaan discuss life is unpredictable, nobody knows what future holds for children, their getting engaged that early can be disastrous for them, but who can prophesy that elders or mature people can be taken granted for, zertashya is in their good books, innocent inexperienced, nice person

Pul-E-Sarat

beautifully depicted contemplative mode used to give an insight to readers that family is a collective unit, each member a bird of a feather, the new bride must belong to this unit of ties, elina is different, she smokes and drinks too much, the rest of the family is shocked at her terrible behaviour , her rudeness spoils the atmosphere , everyone feels she should be given a divorce immediately, sunny-the doctor promises them he would change her to fit the family, in two months or then divorce her, elina sees him in their bedroom with rasool sal-allah-o-alle-wassalam's quotation in a thoughtful mood, he wanting to refine her, she hangs her mother"s picture on a wall, he is told her mother used to always wear a white veil to cover her head, she herself too in college days did so , but her friends made fun of her, she was hurt she changed, this revelation makes the doctor ask her who is she, what her values in life are, whose approval does she need, is she not strong enough, to be what and who she wants to be, a surprised bride stares at his question , a flicker of hope kindles in husband's eyes, he could refine her

Us Khwaab Ko Aik Shebb Sulaa Aye

Dreams are personified in the eyes of the dreamer, let the dreams sleep on their dreams.women are dreamers , so are men, , but life is reality, the depressing people drain out others energies--ask a dreamer what is moon to him, the one that fell from the sky, is it dream like, or is it articulate, let it sleep on its dreams, life partners do not neccesarily fulfill your dreams

Har Faislah Qabool Hai

Communicates Assya Rezzaqi in a most intense empathy that man proposes , god disposes, humra is a young girl who needs attention and affection of her family to be herself, she feels aazer is pushing her away, she takes a silly stand against him that hurts her even more, she refuses to marry danyal for she has plans to marry aazer to avenge her wounded ego, but later she marries his elder brother tahir studying abroad , who sends in his divorce papers, her life becomes a misery, pathetically she tries to interfere with everyone"s life for getting their attention, danyal again proposes , she has no choice but to accept what she had rejected before, but life goes on taking many turns , ups and downs because only man must receive the destined willingly or unwillingly, the real life is man made choices , decisions of destiny, sorrows and joys are packed into it, sealed tightly, life is incomplete without them, open up life and open the parcels of pathos

Taqdir hai Humsafar

By Muqadas Mashal--Life is a journey, granted by destiny, marriages are made in heaven, couples make it hell, hell is prison for sinners, marriage can be sin if life partner is evil, rafya is married to bashar, its an arranged marriage, on her wedding day she discovers her husband is leaving soon for a business trip, she is to fly to england alone, she misses her flight which crashes killing all, she catches the next flight , but becomes a prisoner , of her own husband who informs her family of her death on board, holding back truth that she is alive and well,

Ishq Na Poochhe Zaat

By Nadya Fatimah Rizvi--times have changed, fast pace of it makes years pass by quicjkly in minutes, Zen Ibrahim is a visa officer working in pakistani embassy transfered to damascus, by his family roshin a family friend"s daughter is chosen for him to get engaged to before he leaves for at least one year, he must make a decision overnight, the next day before his departure his engagement to roshin is fixed , they both like each other, on reaching his destination he finds he cant speak arabic, on his arrival nobody from his department came to receive him, the officers on emigration speak no english, a woman in uniform of the syrian air wearing a smile helps him out, she spoke french, lebenese, persian, urdu english comfortably , it was her hobby to learn languages, she drops him at a reasonable affordable hotel to spend the night till morning when he could contact his contacts, but zen forgot to ask her her name

Aur Kuch Khwaab

Ashna Kausar Sardar in her second chapter-- Miraj tughlaq is driving his beautiful long car, in trying to avoid the direct hit with anya malik's car he hits himself , both are total strangers to each other, but each one asks for forgiveness for his careless manner, surprised at their own polite behaviour, anya observes he can"t walk properly and needs assistance, parking her own car in a reserved are, she rings up someone to collect it, she tells miraj that there is no need to bother to pay for damages her car was already vintage, she drives him in his car to the closest hospital for his check up, the doctor thinks they are a married couple, he is advised bed rest for a month, miraj dismisses her as if she was performing her obligatory duties, she turns to leave , both do not know who is who, they were destined to meet just twenty minutes before, they were both so polite and well mannered to each other, usually their tempers are not so mild, rather they were wild, but with each other their chemistry was producing harmonious atmosphere