Load shedding Ke Fayde

@Bills are cut down considerably

@Family interaction increases

@Elders can watch over their children"s activities

@Habit of saving is developed

@Employment opporyunities for candle makers and torch sellers increase

@Patience and tolerance can be practised

@In ome voice unanimously public learns to offer gratefulness to god when power cut is restored

@Ntional integrity and sense of brotherhood and fellow comradship is cultivated

Khabron Ki Duniya

If you are fond of taking strolls at night but are afraid of the dark , new pair of socks are available that produce light while walking , the heat of energy by walking is discarded and used by the tiny bulbs fitted in the socks that illuminate them

Intekhab--by muhammed allyas

it was a dusky sunset, getting quite dark, two guards patrolled the streets, seeing people gathered round a corpse on the road they approach to find the dead man was well off,

faridi plans to use the hired man found tied up in the dungeon by sajjad to catch the real murderer, the man was getting instruction by the same annoymous caller blackmailing sajjad, the instructions to the drunkard were sent on the collar tied up round a dog's neck, along with cash to maintain his drinking habit

Anokhi Rehzeni

Sir Sajjad was quite a strictly punctual man, he enters right on time to find three plates laid at the dining table, rezvana his daughter sympathised with the forgetful chef, she knew how her father would lecture him on discipline when he would serve them the dishes, the trolley was pushed in and her father questioned him why there was a third plate on the table , rezvana had not invited anyone, and sir sajjad too was not expecting any guest, the plate was being removed and a loud thundering voice from a room came along with a man to whom it belonged that he had placed the plate there for himself , he pointed the pistol at them all

Taabir--Shakir Munim

George Sprouce was a teacher and lived alone, still a single,though his mother died some years ago, gets a recurring dream for past two years that he opens the boot of his car to find a dead body of a brunette, one day he is stopped by barbara a new dance teacher he meets , she needs a lift up to her car parked some distance away, he closes his eyes tightly when she gets down to pass by the boot of the car so much thankful to him , he gets psychiatric help explaining his flashes and visions yet the disturbing dream becomes more and more clear

Takht-e-Sitem--nusrat jehaan

Helen sits sipping her drink with murphy in a restaurant on a free port remote island, she is tired of her husband, many a times attempted to kill him or get rid of him somehow but such usual extreme step is taken by killing someone with a knife, or a pistol or strangulation, so her friend murphy suggests she ought to plan differently for instance observing what he is terrified of , if it is heights, or snakes or poison and then tell him there is a snake in his room that would be more effective , eventually obsessed by terror , the sight of it would kill him

from page 273

Johny walked past the woman in a dark corridor, she looked extremely scared of him, he was going to a business office located in the professional center that remained open during the night, visitors signed in their name and time in a register, both take the same lift , liftman was taking them both up to the seventeenth floor, the woman still terrified of him stalking her turned a corner and stood before a doctor"s office, he passed her and at the end of the corridor opened a door to a lighted office, his fiancee waited for him, he checked his pockets , his pistol and velvet box with a diamond necklace worth forty million dollor was there, after greeting each other he was hit from behind the back of his head , when he opened his eyes the woman lisa who thought he was stalking her asks him not to tell anyone she was there at the doctor"s because his husband was jealous and it was her husband"s office where johny was hit, the necklace was missing and his girl friend was killed

-from previous--

shahab tells serfaraz they were served a legal notice by a certain huma khatun, second wife in pakistan of their dead father imtyaz khan, shahab decides to meet her , he takes nadir khan in plain clothes along with him and introduces himself as imtyaz"s son to a young attractive woman in early thirties and nadir as his friend, they see imtyaz"s picture framed with huma khatun holding floral bouquets in the photo placed in the room

Aseeb---M A Rahat

Shahaab calls his brother serferaz to discuss family matters, serferaz arrives with saira, asks them to talk openly before her as she was his confidante , shahaab refuses to disclose his matters in her presence, and says it depends on serferaz to broadcast what ever he chose on a road crossing ,or sharing his secrets with saira was absolutely his own personal choice , but shahab decided not to reveal his father"s family matters before her, saira got up to leave the room, her tone resonating with admireable strength ordering serferaz to listen to the family in private

Bhook--Kashif Zuber

Alice with her friends and brother plan a trip to spend their annual vacation for a month in remote siberia, they chart out a map , after getting it confirmed , fly in their private jet, on entering the turbulent french skies the last thing before sending emergency message may day alice remembers the plane crashing, the cockpit and the tail end break off , falling away down the hill, the middle was in which alice and her friends were , she slowly opened her eyes to see three pairs of human eyes intently gazing at her , looking quite concerned for her , she tells them what and how others died

Harisah--page228

Khalifah mamoon alrashid ordered his chef to prepare harisah a feast of wheat and meat specially for his guests, the meal was served without the main course, the clever chef explained he forgot as forgetfulness was a tradition set up by hazrat adam since time immemorial, the khalifah also gave him similar punishment that hazrat adam was by the creator for forgetting to obey

Takraaw--Nawaaz Khan

balal accompanies nawaz khan , they are forced to break their journey in the last dying out hours of night, in a village , knocking the door of the hut , it is opened by a vilage farmer, who is terrified to see two men standing at such an odd time , plastered in grime and mud, in soiled clothes, nawaz khan tells them they are the police, this is more a reason for the farmer to get even more frightened, he lets them in, nawaz khan needs fresh pair of clean clothes to change, the farmer"s are short he borrows from his brother, feeling how simple the farmer is nawaz khan is extremely impressed , till he overhears the host whispering into his wife"s ears that they must be prisoners at large , escaped from the local jail

Parwaaz--Tahir Javed Mughal

Khawar escapes from the so called encounter site to be captured by the officer to be taken to shehwar's father's mansion, khawar tries to explain he is not the one who killed her, but chaudhry aziz "s confession was recorded is stolen by the arrangement of shah waris , and anwar and his wife who had somehow obtained shewar"s hair clip are also missing

Tanha Safar--Shamir Abbas

Melisse in tennessee lived with her parents, the police officer father always worried about his daughter"s welfare, the rising crime rate , terrible number of incidents against women and his daughter was so special and precious to him, he taught her how to defend herself, she gets a job three hundred miles away in atlanta city , every weekend she drove her sports car taking roughly three hours to reach her parental home, spent the night with them and next day sunday left after dinner at eight to reach her flat in the city to join early morning rested properly , she could always get help calling emergency on highway

Rezeq-e- Halaal---Salim Farooqi

Obstacles in life test one"s convictions, the narrator "s elder brother-zishan , after completing his schooling joins a stationary company to suppoert the family in hyderabad, he was soon given a rise and married off , their father retired, zishan opens his own stationary store in kerachi, and shares a room with a friend, within three months his business doubles, he calls his brother and wife , they move into a bigger house, the story teller starts helping zishan in his business

Raaz--Tanveer Rayaz

Gone for a morning walk , as jim - a physical therapist from maryland did with debbie , one early winter morning by the sea side , felt mist rising , enveloping the faded scenery, debbie was gazing intently the play of tides, for she had an artistic nature, but she could have done that sitting inside the cosy comfort of the car, suddenly she pointed at something being carried by the splashy waves that she thought was a lost treasure trunk, he thought it otherwise a drift wood heavily being pulled back and forth by the freezing winds

Lalkaar--Tahir Javed Mughal

Sculpted with an easy expertise of a perfectionist, the story revolves around in opening lines this edition with the two sisters keeping a keen interest in antiques of great value stored at their home, salim is on their pay roll, imran asks iqbal to follow him cautiously , for he seems to be holding back more secrets than he actually claimed to reveal about his job with the sisters, worried iqbal might be caught following salim tabi nervously asks what could happen in those cases if their own location was disclosed, imran tells tabi iqbal was trained radio artist who can change voices and has many other contacts he could send in case of being exposed, next morning imran, iqbal and tabi have their breakfast of nihari naans, with long glasses of lassi--buttermilk together,

Mazaaq--Salim Anwar

Jamal instead of eagerly complying, or impatiently succumbing to sonia's charms, or readily confessing or firmly reassuring her decided as a seasoned police pfficer he was to throw her question back at her-- if and how she was certain she could see their future life together

Haath Saaf- Maryam K Khan

Nell was a young man during 1975 terror striken belfast, troops had taken control of the perimeters, he decides he had to breathe free in the london air, his father tries to advise him not to leave his native land , he could survive in little , everyone was known to them, he was also a familiar sight, nell reaches liverpool and starts operating on rush hours on over crowded tube trains, on board he would wait for right time to strike, with expert precision when passengers were jolted at the halts on stations he would pick pockets, till one day two irish terrorists in their twenties high jack their train , he had already pocketed a fat purse of an elderly english retired army man reading a news paper, but as he was about to get down the two barged in forcing all of them to raise their arms and clasp their hands on their heads, they had certain demands, the train driver on the intercom was instructed not to stop at any station or at every halt a passenger would be killed

Tezkya Nafas--Alif Siddiqui

Noted criminal lawyer salha abad alkarim successfully solves yet another case, amidst flashing cameras she looks more sad than joyous at her professionalism, she shares how naila and her husband Salaah aldin were married happily for about twenty years, their two teenagers adorned the home, also were they doing well in their respective colleges till salaah aldin becomes business partner of farman who had a foreign wife , separated seven years, last had come to visit them in kerachi when he had married julia, farman promotes their export business and finally comes to stay with them on the upper floor, and their teenage daughter falls from the roof top , slipping accidentally hitting hard her head smashed up on the fall down on the road

Guftgu--August Huma

It is not for cheap publicity but for shere love of uncorrupted magical beauty of Urdu language that huma urdu digest brings sensational amazing suspense stories gathered from across the boundaries of continents , intercultural mysteries and serves them at the readers" threshold with dignity and pure ettiquette , the circulation price is low , the pleasure is high

Muhabbet Humsafar meri--Anjum Ansar

When the magic spell clears off the enchanting dark gloom-

Why reality is still invisible obscure--

Shehzadi married to naved cunningly starts segregating the family, she is invited to join the family homecooked simple meal with the rest of them by mother and sisters-in-law, shehzadi moaning she is advised to have only meat dishes of her choice goes to her room, naved returns to find her alone , as others eat, shehzadi weakly gets up to cook boiled rice for herself but falls down on her bed, naved gets biryani and jumbo cold soft aerated drink , looked upon greedily by his nephews and small neices , but shehzadi had demanded it, she feels she had emerged victorious, it was her first victory, she had won naved over who was ready to pick a fight for her against his foolish mother

Hazrat Balal

Hazrat balal was born slave to be released and become the first biographer of Salallahoallewassulam, who was born poor and orphaned early in life, grew up as a shepherd watching on the sheep grazing silently in natural surroundings, of most peaceful nature, of logical mind, fair judge, unbiased, never taking sides he was the first to enter the holy hajar when it was renovated by the then quresh khalifa with the timber of the shipwreck to safe guard the holy relic of hajar asood , the four tribes started a war to take over the control of it, but rehmetullahalle, rasoolallah salallahoallewassallum prophet muhammmed was born to solve this problem, he was chosen to decide, he made the four representatives of each tribe hold a positing from each direction and lift the holy relic to the right height and then placed it where it still sits

Shehr-E-Dil--Shamma Hafiz

Manal is ironing clothes , she finds a beautiful chic brightly coloured vibrant dress , her sister arma remembers it was bought by shamir in emergency when she had lost her veil , shamir is waiting for her, manal asks her to wear that very dress, unaware of the undercurrents when shamir looks up to see arma silently following manal into the room, life "s backwaters have once again thrown them together , the time tide once again had brought the two of them so close

Allah Ki Hifazat Mein

Hazrat Ibn Abbas had an association with rehmetullahalle rasoolallah salallahoallewassalum prophet muhammed and so believed the asker ought to be granted food, shelter and clothed , long after the traces of the rags on him remained would also be the cause of spiritual fulfilment to the one who had willingly given in charity

Jaan-e-Jaan Tu Jo Kahe---Rafat Wafa

One early evening rafya and adal bring a huge gift wrapped shopper of packed feast for ama to find tanya with her father iftakhar and mother rashidah gone shopping, adal had opened up a new business recently , when ama ordered the dinner be served for those who were present whether tanya and her family were absent because it was their family custom to dine at the same fixed time regularly, rafya and adal feel bad for zertashya 's condition, silently cursing nerghis for her unnatural behaviour towards her own daughter

Sandas

She is representing as the narrator the universal woman, married , professionally skilled, talented, independent financially, yet life partner is incompatible, at every level she feels she is humiliated, why? because she too is absolutely incompatible to him

Sub Keh Do

Cautious and wise person knows who is sincere and how much to reveal and how much to conceal, the right time to talk , right time to pause, correct moment to be silent and proper rush of flowing words whether they should be checked in time or allowed to be shared

Rehmet Badlti Hai--Lebna Tahir

Adil an only son -brother of his three sisters gets married to tabi, a born show off, ready to use her feminine wiles , to exploit him, she equipped with natural tears ready to roll down any time, her voice turned sweeter than the sweetest melody ever heard, her cooking skills produced adorable dishes when it suited her , it was when she wanted something done for her out of the way so she could impress others and take the bows and wows or she would harshly ignore him, others had no meaning in her life, they were merely tools she should toy with, the realisation of her such behaviour dawns on her one day, why she behaved so , her parental background was instrumental

Muhabbet Humsafar Meri--Rashidah Rafat

Watching his favourite live match on Tv Omar flatly refuses to accompany his mother to attend the wedding of her relative , there was another reason --difference in social status of the families, Omar's was a simple middle class and the other"s was high wealthy famous reputed well established in town, father agreed to go with his wife, but he was getting frail with age, younger brother was not allowed to even touch omar's bike so finally omar had to dress up and looking quite dashing left with his mother to attend the function, the qazi sat on the stage waiting with the groom for the bride to arrive on the stage , but suddenly a beautiful woman holding a three year old's hand stepped forward claiming she was groom"s wife, the child wrapped its arms tightly around his legs calling him father, the groom admitted she was his wife natasha, his first love but his mother forced him into this farce of a marriage , they left and the bride's father was consoled by everyone, omar's mother knew how exactly ahsan bhai was feeling and what he was going through, soon omar found he was pushed on stage , garlanded , pictures taken of him, he was married off to the bride with his consent

Honey Fried Chicken Wings at Fun-e-Zaiqa Is khana Khazana

Start to impress your volunteer spying neighbourhood by cooking honey fried wings, the aroma will bring all of them drawn like a moth near you-

@Add oil to the pan and heat it

@Add garlic -ginger paste and stir

@Add the wings and roast

@Add water and salt to taste and bring to a boil

@Let it simmer for sometime till dry

@Take out the wings to cool them

@Mix well the eggs, flour and honey

@Dip and deep fry the cooled by now wings

Don't share with anyone

Mom Ki--Memuna Khurshid Ali

There is eternal war between the old and the new generations, between their thinking, between elder and younger siblings, this rivalry is to establish one's supremacy--as babli ironed the family clothes her elder sister offers her her favourite best turquoise dress babli could wear to show off herself in the coming party, babli knows it is a bargain , wailing she refused to take the bait thrown at her, she can"t cook a meal standing soggy sweaty in summer heat during power cuts because she is using formula face cream, her friend opened a new beauty parlour and experimented golden colour on her head that she covered quickly to hide from others at home, elder sister got the perfect point to blackmail babli to cook the meal

Muhabbet Zad-e-Hayat--(Jine Ki Raah)--Iqrar Ahmed

Trust is the mirror once shattered is not put back together, its fragments hurt, the story is an attempt of revising social biases, sarah is married , the law permits her, her religion permits her to choose a life partner but parental control restrains her, still she gets married to the man of her choice legally and is as a result abandoned by her loving parents support, once degraded by her family she becomes totally dependent on her husband"s mercy

Zindgi Ki Rah Per---Iqbal Banu

Love of free aimless roaming spirit is a vagabond-

One wholesome love unsettles him so-

Spring is one of the seasons in life, but there are other seasons too, meryam seated on the steps feeding her chicks looks around at the lush luxuriant bottlebrush swaying, orange blossoms deliciously sweet fragrant, honey bees gathering nectar from luscious flowers in full bloom, her mother and grandmother enthroned in their comfortable perches sideways pecked at her with their taunts, wanting her to go with her husband arif, as they believed parental home for a married woman is just a transit camp,

Pul-e-Sarat--Qesra Hayat

Prayers can help, where medication fails--

Elina is disturbed terribly, her behaviour pattern is changing rapidly, her best friend is dying in bits in hospital, her parents abusively blaming each other for her pathetic condition, elina in her chic modern fashionable half clad scanty dress covers her head with a piece of fabric , sitting up raising her arms she starts praying for friend"s well being, what should be begged for , long life of friend, or what , she is unsure as she has never before prayed so desparately, her husband enters their bedroom to find her weeping , he drapes her properly with a larger shawl, she gets annoyed, after meeting her friend she decides to visit her parents, a strange feeling pulling her, she finds her husband talking to her mother about elina's weird attitude, mother speaks up her mind, but the husband refuses to give her a divorce, elina is eavesdropping silently on her own family , in her mother"s house

Pakiza Zindgi Of Evon Bin Abdullah

The preacher practised what he preached by remembering every moment of life could be the last he inhaled, not lusting to live, using life - force to clear his conscience, to establish and maintain spiritual conduct to achieve higher level where direct contact with the creator almighty is established, because man overlooks the creation"s beauty displayed before him in his greed for accumulating wealth that he can not carry with him , he must give alms in charity to send the value of his kind deeds done to ensure happiness in after life

Aur Kuch Khwab--Ashna Kaushar Sardar

Save your ego , lose a friend-
Lose your ego , save a friend


Anya malik is a young professional woman-an event organiser hired by tughlaq family to arrange a theme party, she falls into a pond, unable to swim she half drowns, maraj tughlaq brings her about, she does not tell at home she had almost drowned, she sends sara to substitute her, at home her saviour sits enjoying her family"s hospitality, she shares her experience with adnan, who suggests she declares she is already engaged to someone, the arrangement of the event she organised comes to an end, but at the last moment she is to change the whole theme again, that would mean overstaying , doing it all over the second time, on aysha's orders-maraj's sister

Dard-e-Mushtark---Masroor Jehaan

Life is unpredictable finds out shaman, one friday as she offers prayers and burning incense sticks at the cemetery , with her three year old daughter reshna, she is driven to her home by zamaan, who gives her a job of a PRO in his import-export business company,primarily out of sympathy for a widow and also there was a vacancy he had been ignoring for long because he strongly dislikes scandulously scantily dressed up model clone secretaries, a beautifully written emotionally humid , warmly saturated story

Qesra Hayaat

Writers are born, they are god gifted like singers, talent is exhibited by practise and the more one practises the more it gets polished, qesra hayaat has brought out a research work book on the names of sal-allah-o-alle-wassallum, her novel pul-e-sarat is being published serialwise in pakeeza anchal, her style of writing is informal and conversational, attractive and simple, quality of writing is more important to quantative,

August--Pakeeza Anchal

The holy month of shabaan brings joyous tidings that the holy month of ramzan is approaching, so said the prophet muhammed rehmatullaalle, rasoolallah, salallahoallewassullum, it is the month of preprations for the coming celebrations, the night of worshipping, is here the fifteenth of the month of shabaan after sunset till the dawn , pakeeza anchal prepares wholeheartedly to keep the magazine"s price low and standards of urdu culture high,

Adhaa Bater-Ibn Sufi

Digmoore was a press associate reporter at a goverment building, his weakness was searching for single women, disgruntled, separated segregated, thinking of moneka, his last recent quest, he gets a phone call, anonymous caller asks digmoore to look for a red envelop in the pile of his post arrived on the tray before him, digmoore finds his picture in compromising situation with moneka, the caller asks if a copy of it should be sent to her husband or to his wife, or he would cooperate readily with him to destroy his target

Dohri Jeet--Yaqub Jamil

What is real treasure--if it is not contentment,

Fulfilling life is not acheived without self satisfaction, a sense of self worth and peace of mind, thapa is sailing from mumbai to england , his italian co- passenger morya with his wife and daughter share a story of how morya became so wealthy , finding real treasure in life is an ordeal, but morya gets more than his share, doubled happiness, multiplied joy, beautiful narration of a diver who along with his friend were set out to fulfil a condition of getting rich enough before they could ask for elivera"s hand in marriage,