Achhi Khabar--Manzar Imam

Inefficiency breeds dissatisfaction that in turn leads to terrorism-shaukat and nadim were child hood friends, shaukat's sister nilima is getting married , the news is carried to shaukat by nadim after many years of separation both friends meet each other, sometimes life is controlled at one"s level, and other times it is contrlled by fate

-carried forward--

saifina is introduced as sunira to shahab , but saifina was dead, arsham and his wife invite shahab, he takes kaisar khan to drive him there, it was a strange remote out of the city area under construction, the mysterious house had all the remote system installed already, there were hidden gadgets announcing welcoming slogans, doors opening by themselves, it must be high tech, it is possible in this modern age, he meets arsham dressed up properly, his wife served the lunch -she a perfect hostess and servile, he was so enchanted by sunira looking so attractive and gorgeous, but shahab was silently pledged to arjamand

Aseeb--M A Rahat

Shahab and his family are the chief guests of honour in the press conference luncheon given by tahira khanum -a high profile politically aggressive activist, the party was of very high standard keeping her own status in mind, later the girls at home --hera, danya, arjmand and sultana become good friends and make tea for all , sumanaara meets her sister , shahab"s grandmother bed ridden for some years, it was a most sentimental moment for the family gathered there after ages of separation

-from previous---

Fearlessness is an attribute where fear element lacks , courage is doing duty in danger--alma mater is a mother one is proud of, nobody is ever proud of a bad mother, the professor recalls as he listens to the governor"s stereo type speech, that he was so grateful sam had done so much to get the building of hover university built, when the governor had refused flatly to grant charter of demand , holding the degrees back

badmaash---Asif Malik

Salt Lake cCty was a sleepy little township during the beginning of the nineteenth century, quietly nestled amidst natural scenery it would start buzzing at night, very few incidents of crime took place, the creator of such rare incidents would keep them talking about it for weeks, specially the culprit would become the talk of the town, Hogard was the new young twenty four year old gangster who had ousted the fifty year old lawsons, establishing his own control over the town

Majboor--Maryam K Khan

Harry and his associates arrive at alska in search of finding gold , treasure hunting was a thrill giving adventure , they had vacation in november to spend their time in north , the river would freeze in the last week of november, the area was thickly infested with wild wolves and bears, the four of them were wearing many layers of clothings starting from cotton jammies, woolllens and thermals to wind cheaters to keep them warm in minus temperature, sledges were used to carry their igloo tents and two week tinned rations, minerals, medicines and devices that produced ultra sonic sounds to keep away the wild beasts

Do Bure-Shamar Abbas

Reshel was a farmer"s daughter , brought up working as a farm help till at twelve her father died in an accident , leaving her to fend for herself, life can be a cruel demonstration of pure hatred, evil is nobody's friend, drug addiction is never human friendly

Takrao-Nawaz Khan

nawaz khan shares his experiences with readers through his stories , once he was appointed at a station, early morning he was informed by a close trusted man of a powerful man that there had been a case of abduction, because khan was called shahji , he was newly come there he accompanied the informer, on the site there was proof that the report was true, but the parcel was missing, the jeep returned and soon the honest narrator found himself being cha a murder he had not committed

Mautpasand--Asif Zuber

Dr jason --neuro-counsellor on his thirtieth floor office gets a phone call from a royn worried about her husband michael who was prone to suicidal tendency and for this reason she was divorcing him, soon after calling up the counsellor she was walking out of the house, jason an expert knew very well the reasons for depression is failure of sorts, specially inability to cope with circumstances, for instance those accustomed to riches finding themselves bankrupt during recession prefer being buried under the soil to staying alive on the surface of earth

-carried forward---

Pete hires pepe"s services to remove his rival angus, pete attaches his men to shadow pepe-a french contract killer, pepe keeps an eye on his target--angus, who is watching pete"s moves , angus successfully broke an inside man in pete"s empire

Bilamuavza--Shamar Abbas

Pepe was in his paris club , his satelite cell phone vibrated, email alerts were sent to him, he had a special secure web site, with a safe email identity available , specially created for other underworld drug suppliers and illegal arms and ammunition dealers to safely contact him, -a contract killer who for every deal took two months time to successfully accomplish it , or return the money, pete calls him to eliminate his rival angus, the deal was done , on a glass of plain water,pepe returned , his appearance always with every deal changed, he directly went back to his changing room in a casino , not aware he was being followed, it was routine that he never showed up in his real identity before anyone, never repeating his disguise, never using the same passport, or route of exit

-From Previous--

Always sings not the night-in-gale-

Always stays not heavenly air-

Forever remains not youth-

Nor forever love- my friend dear--

khawr is stunned to find a wolf in sheep's clothing, why his mother and sister were still alive, why balqis was unaware of her lands, why he was being kept alive and helped to move out to afghanistani tribal area secretly, why he was not profitable dead, and buried there, who had killed his wife shervar, her blue gem studded hairclip worn by a woman leads khawr to come almost too close to declare himself a free innocent man when he found he was surrounded by policemen in the dark cemetery

Parwaz--Tahir Javed Mughal

khwaer and temur find themselves in a precarious situation surrounded , unable to escape, they start crawling dangerously forward until rescued by shah nawaz, who takes them to his den where they are given treatment, chaudhary aziz arrives after realising that he had been fortifying chaudhary"s empire most loyally though they were never on friendly informal terms, it is planned they must leave for afghanistan tribal pocket secretly to stay there or surrender, temur also desparately expresses his desire to meet mother before leaving for long time, both ride on horseback to the place lined up with hawthorn along the riverside where mother is stowed away in a huge vintage house

Musibatzada--Mirza Amjad Beg

The writer is also the narrator, shares his experience as a criminal lawyer, a retired headmaster approaches him, his son kamran a courier , soon to be married was imprisoned for killing the watchman of alfaridi apartments building, they were not associated in any way, not friends, no animosity, never lived in that area kamran had just gone there to deliver parcels, ironically man dirties his hands with crime to keep away from it , to stay clean

Nama-Yaqub Jamil

Michael , a german electronics company sales man is sent to switzerland on a business trip, in the hotel he finds his neighbour has stolen everything he carried including his papers and driving license, he starts walking forty mile distance to his company, he is new to the city, he gets tired and sits at the roadside for someone to offer him a lift, he desparately prays, car extraordinaire flies past, screeching brakes heard coming to a halt, reversing the most beautiful woman offers him a lift, Shela gets down , he meets another woman in wait for a lift on the highway, whose friends at a cafe exchange his car with theirs

Murdah Farosh

Presented by maryam K Khan-Adam jones was when a ten year old boy , he in eighteenth century london , enveloped in dark gloomy fog, joined his ailing father to dig up graves for they were corpse robbers, after digging the bodies up, they were sold , this was their way of earning a living, their family business, one night his father collapsed trying to stifle his cough , adam was left alone , he was just twelve , he meets another such robber who was more powerful , had more better contacts, a huge wheel barrow with useful tools, together they become partners, grave digging was a punishable crime , if caught and found guilty culprits were not flogged but hanged to a light noose to die a slow painful death

Lalkaar

By tahir javed mughal--imran is a sincere friend to tabash, who was beaten up, insulted by the seth saraj, imran gets even on his behalf, his men bang up the seth"s vehicle, the sacks full of rice get torn up, imran observes a two inch thick layer of rice covering on top underneath there is mud , he sends his man iqbal to follow the seth. imran gets a call from sehwal famous for bananas and a prosperous city , a location is explained, both imran and tabash reach there crossing sahewal to a remote village , unauthorised colony built on government land occupied and sealed and declared a world heritage ---harrapa village --where the seth"s vehicle was parked at his friend zalikha's place

lalkaar

Life is like a circus, play of death and survival, shahin, sando and the narrator watch first the stunts of imran and then the betters betting on shahzadah who would shoot at himself point blank range blind, after him one man from the spectators came up to participate , betters set their money on the tables and the man hit the trigger and the bullet hit him, he fell , the management rushed up to to carry him away

Raaz

by anees mirza--both sikender and mona have there jobs in jamnagar, she a goddess of beauty , he a handsome police officer, too honest for others liking, conspirators successfully targeted him to ruin his honest reputation by fixing up a case of bribe against him, one evening mona waits for him they are planning a date , dine and watch a movie, she opens the door to find her friend salma's brother asking her to hide him in her bedroom, soon sikender arrives , and minutes later police comes searching for a run away murderer from jail road, not knowing about the man is hiding in mona's room sikender sends away the police search party, mona reaveals the secret, entering the room they find it empty and someone running away on the street below, sikender goes to jail road to find out the facts, comes back to find a dead body under mona's bed

July-Huma

Huma july opens with a message on definition of social awareness, law is meant for placing criminals in their right place, sometimes serving them death penalty for damaging someone"s life, but why those go free who sell adulterated food , for petty money their conscience

is stripped out of them , they produce largescale poison to innocent public--servant of urdu language

Muhabbet Humsafar Meri

anjam ansar beautifully depicts life after marriage changes many lives, annie marries sarm , she gets up quite early , keeping every family member"s taste in mind she cooks meals for them , she is unassuming, non interefering, and responsible woman, her mother keeps inviting her over but annie is wise and unwaveringly begins her new life with her husband and in laws

Pen Is Mightier Than Sword

Balaal was bought by rasool allah to be released the next moment, he was given a place to stay at hazrat abu bakr, whose day started with morning namaz, followed by miking the goats, abu bakr was balaal's host who was a true servant of allah, of rasool allah, of balaal too, his gentleness was unbeatable, he taught balaal to be truly independent and self reliant by educating him , to read and write, attrh 's compositions were introduced, there was a similarity between attrh and balaal both were born slave

Hazrat Balaal

Son of a slave, became a slave himself, sold off like a beast, ill-treated , beaten up for not obeying his master umya, who had him whipped , left him for half dead, half alive ,half buried under a boulder , thirsty and hungry balaal sees a glimpse of divine vision , he is energised, he comes to , but can"t open his heavy eye lids, he was being bought by someone for one hundred darhams, umya asks for two hundred, abu bakr and zaid the sons of sal -allah -o -alle- wassulum had come for him, because rasool -rehmat- ullah -alle-salallahoallewasullum had known balaal had been touched by the divine light

Prophet Muhammed is the chosen one, on whom the golden words of holy Qoran descended -a Treasure of Wisdom

Taqdir Hai Humsafar

Muqadas mashal portrays beautifully winding up neatly in third episode --Bashar brings home his secretary safya . both disucssing intimate friendship , future promises of getting together closer , suddenly seeing rafya standing up there on the stairs they become quiet, Safya rudely asks her to get aside as she thinks her to be a housemaid, but she puts Safya in her right position telling her exactly who she is and what she thinks of paid employees of her husband who come home hanging on his arms, whether outsiders have more rights to advise her about how she should lead her life

Jan-E-Jan Tu Jo Kahe

A beautiful silky emotional sketch etched by the writer rahat Wafa--Tanya feels confused about her long time relation with adal, getting married, maintaining relationship and trying to get out of one bonding for another , her mother shahida begum is a bank officer , anxious to know whether tanya is impressed by khuram'as a man or is it his wealthy background , or if he wants really an allaince with her

Woh Jo Qarz Rakhte The

A beautiful daily routine slice of life painted sentimentally by Faridah ashfaq through a household--wasim returns home after many years staying abroad to find his house empty and being managed by mehsana-a family friend"s daughter he does not know, meeting first time she is owerawed by his personality and rude behaviour

Zakhm Phool Hain

A beautiful emotional picture sketched by Sherwat Nazir--Nada is a graduate young unmarried motherless girl brought up strictly in a conservative family , affectionate brother seems to her as if he is always spying on her , watching over her friends, her grandmother has taught her how to dress up properly, but her friend has a friend outside home , nada desires to be fearless like men, getting bored at home during vacations ,not wanting to learn stiching clothes, or cooking or be in the kitchen she wants to be free

Kitchen Beauty

Kitchen is the place to cook and feed the family and friends, but the reader gets fresh beauty tips , using the kitchen as a beauty clinic, turmeric, mint, onion, ginger tomato can also be used to improve your looks and level of confidence

Fun - e-Zaiqa

An invititation to readers to try out new dishes at home, chicken korma, chicken kofta, chicken hazarvi with home made tomato sauce quickly done, followed by sweet mango sewiya

Jehaan Phool Ko Khilna Tha

A story beautifully written by shaziya aijaz shazi about namra who is well educated responsible young woman who can decide for herself chooses to marry her tutor friend, but circumstances push her to marry a wealthy man selected by her father

Silsile Muhabbet Ke

A beautiful definition of marriage by iqbal banu, --Shah min gets married to her classfellow of different background, but fails to understand the reason for getting married, explained by the writer that life partners must understand and complete each other's necessities, or like shahmin uncaringly would permit her husband to get another wife,

Pul-E-Sarat

Maryam looks intently at maraz's picture, there is no reason she could find to refuse this arranged marriage, she compares herself to mamoona married to asad a wealthy buisnessman, who gave diamonds at his own function, feeling rather low maryam is a prisoner of circumstances, without any future hope of ever getting a catch like asad, she gives consent to their marriage

Maa

A beautifully painted graph of motherhood defined by Sherwat Nazir, the narrator reminiscenses her childhood when she appealed to her mother who was extremely lovely not to show up before her friends for they compared them , the narrator in comparison was not up to her mother's remarkable beauty, when she herself became a mother her own daughter made the same request urging her not to appear before her friends

Mere Chand

A story by Sherin Hyder, the narrator working in Dubai for six years gets two messages , one from his native land that his father is down with a heart attack, the other from his best friend recently married coming for dinner that he met with an accident, divided, crushed mentally,. he leaves for pakistan to see his father, there he meets maira with her twins, the narrator remembers how they had been married for two years , she had taken khala -divorce from him

Aur Kuch Khwab

Anya Malik shares her fears with Adnan regarding Maraj Tughlaq , a dashing young handsome, well off, well behaved, well educated rich titled man who wants her to organise his function

Al Kabir----Asma al-Husna: 99 Beautiful names of Allah

Al Kabir is one of the attributes of allah, by reciting and properly remembering it the faithful practitioner"s honour and self respect increases, prmoting him to a higher status

Khush haal Azdwaji Zindgi

Rich experiences shared by married women and women writers, each one believes without mutual understanding , patience and common sense and sensibleness, whether one is educated to compete with their qualifications in the outer world but intheir domestic affairs woman should be mature and wise, she can"t always stay the bride wanting her husband to frame her like a painted delicate stuff for ever, life is at every step a test

Nishan-e-Manzil

A debate by masroor jehan about daughters being blessings , whether they should be educated or is high schooling the absolute limit after which they should be married off, what kind of education is considered right, is it forced by parents pushing them to fulfil their own dreams , leaving no milestone unturned, ramsha decides against her family , she has aptitude to further her goals, and she also gives moral support and proper guidance to make her own daughter a useful citizen of a responsible society

Ghazal -page 43

Submerged noisy life reached the harbour

The nocturnal delights not in illuminations loud

Now listening intently to regretful pain

Long enough I heard songs of joy

Silenced voices, lowered eyes glued below

Clearly heard are sounds of insensitivity

Those igniting got decayed

Your empty promises like dried up river flow

Behold I lay her in the tomb of silence

let the noise of crowds approach me

Aggressively sacrificial souls searches for you

Just once did I hear my hopeless heart smile conceitedly--Shayar Naqvi

Page 41-Ghazal

Today in this camp, Future unfolds somewhere else surging

Wind swept leaves a falling

My nomadic wild streak a chasing

Everyone pristine around me unchanging

Wounded, I kept smiling, my roaming greed tormenting

Expecting of blossoming

Up with ties of glances of smiling

Born free, I gather smiles escaping

Beloved foe, the sky is a stranger

Earth too not mine to belong

Clouds of dust are rising

For the love of non belonging---

Jaib Jaalb

Ghazal , Page-31

I turned stone, unable to move,

Not letting me wash out my weeping heart,

Solitude intensely searching for you,

Your image disturbed me all night long.

A tide of unshed tears settled in my eye,

Dreams unstrung fell scattered thereby.

Drummed my heart your silent name,

World untouched of desirable pain,

Nasir her memory is inseparable companion,

Never letting me alone in this carnival world--Nasir Zaidi

Ghazal --Bahadur Shah Zafar-Page 25

Talking has never been so impossible for me before,

As Your gathering has never been the same ever before,

Who has stolen away your virtues of patience and joy,

My Heart , you "ve never been so emotionally turbulent before,

God, your eyes have cast a magic spell,

That never pained me so much ever before,

Zafar , what"s your reason to be actively spoil,

Eternal youth appeared never so divine before

Muhabbet Aik Kushmkash

A new novelette by a new upcoming writer Ashmira Saba-Tabash is sent to speedpost a letter , her ailing mother has sent for her uncle who soon arrives to find tabash"s father is already dead and mother requests him to look after tabash after her , the uncle with tabash's consent takes her to delhi from amabala to stay with his family , with a promise if she ever wanted to return she was free to do so, , in the new compact two storeyed house in delhi, she is given a room and meets her hostile relatives for the first time.

Anwar Nazhat

Born in pre partion india, married off quickly during the partition at fourteen to settle down with her in laws in pakistan, educated privately at home, widowed eighteen years later , now lives with her grown up children not like helicopter parent with them, has an insight of oriental writers and novelists, intervewed by ghazala siddiqui the publisher owner of the magazine herself

July Pakeeza Anchal

The beauty of pakeeza anchal stories are illuminating the minds of its readers, spreading like forest fire the popularity is amazingly catching up from canada, to america, to europe, to africa to the middle east ,thankfully to alert readers taste