be the friend you want to have,
a good friend is like life and love who stand by in your needs but there after you must learn to cherish them
from the editor--
blessing is almighty's mercy,
His wrath is sorrow
to keep yourself blessed His will and mercy is needed that nobody else can bestow, the holy month of the last rasool muhammed salallahoalleywassallum is observed always with great sobriety and understanding , may the faithful be blessed and stay blessed
she held out her hand to pull him up , he was so surprised , they were going towards the river, on the way she pulls the new rope from the well where a man was thrown in to die, nobdy drank water from there, the rope was new , when they reached the bridge over the river she disappeared to the shocked khawar who began to believe she was a spirit , she again was like magic before himwith another rope she stole from a old woman "s well promising herself to return before dawn ,
khawar expressed his feelings that as a girl she ought to be afraid of him, a stranger, of wild beasts roaming in the dark and of something unknown, she was frightened of god, her father, lizards and rats, she invited him to touch her, in a second he caught her hand and found himself rotating in air, the sky was below his feet, and the stars circled, he was licking dust in no time, she was a expert in kushti style
resham was a gentle and kind young woman, a village damsel but nice, she takes khawar to find if he could see nurin "s body where the accident had occurred, on their way he shares his fear of being seen, she laughed because he was nobdy in that area, she was the one notorious like the devil
who salim? khawar wanted to know, resham was dilip kumar fan of mughle azam fame, once when her brother had gone missing she along with her father had visited Lahore to offer a sacred chadder on data mazar, then she had seen the movie, so what if khawar was not salim , he could at least pretend to be for the time being , when he went away he could be himself, how she had wept to see the beautiful anarkali singing the very popular song and dance sequence in the movie
Khadija beghum does not like younger cousins to call their elders by their first names, it is against her teachings but ajya tells her mahin wants her to call her by her first name , so does her aunt-maihin"s mother who wanted them all to know classfellows were equals , Khadija also took their side because she understood mahin was slow learner and getting bigger too quickly for her parents peace
ajya went to pick mahin up her senior by three years on her way to college , taya uncle lived near by, but as the parents quarreled on top of their voices , the silly daughter gazed herself in the mirror admiring herself, getting late herself, and making ajya also late , who spurred her to be quick, mahin lazily and arrogantly would ask her to wait , her father angrily declined to drive them both to college five minutes walking distance away, his tones made ajya find one more reason to be grateful to god that she was not born as his daughter
wearing lemon green clothes bought the year before on eid , very expenseive though had served their purpose well, every month ganya dressed up in the same looking beautiful, , they were her favourite , she had almost refused to take it for the high price but ajya had forced her to accept it for thei beauty and lasting quality, a decision both did not regret
father was rich enough on a high position and could afford anything reasonable but on values he lived a disciplined and simple life , so did his family, ajya naughtily shared her opinion with him that she too was eternally grateful to god for letting her be born as his daughter and not taya uncle"s who had a totally different temperament , whose daughter mahin three years older was her class fellow, who indulged in looking beautiful but was brainless
mother did not like the younger daughters speaking against guests who rejected their elder sister, Khadija also checked them for sitting with the guests with their elder sister and not helping her to serve, but counting how much everyone ate, leaving little for them , the greedy manner in which they gobbled up everything but did not accept the girl who had cooked and served them so nicely
Khadija beghum's sister was a regular matchmaker , she kept on bringing new proposals, but all families rejected ganya a natural beauty , brilliant and educated, because the definition of beauty has changed from nice to fashionable , from dignified to cheap tricks, though the father always found a reason to be thankful, like Khadija beghum , who were so satisfied and peaceful by nature that their middle daughter was amazed how they found some reason to be always grateful showing gratitude to god
the two young sisters analaysed how much guests loved eating what was cooked by their elder sister, every month at least twice for matrimonial alliances matchmaking was done in their home for ganya, who kept the house clean, and was a very good cook, but people were uninterested in skills they observed how much they had to show off
only the barber was brilliant and could not stop himself from asking direct questions, he asked from where he had come and where was he going, who were the people travelling in the wagon, khawar invented a sad sentimental story that made them so sad they would not hurt him by asking him more questions, but the barber wanted to know more, , the old man offered khawar to stay with him as long as he needed to, this caused the barber and the wrestler react in a way all men do when a stranger lives in the same house with a young woman like resham
the barber was the only messenger as he had more places to go every day, he had in the morning given a hair cut to the officer in charge who believed the accident occurred because the driver was drunk, no bodies were found, he was not even aware of khawar"s being a survivor
khawar in one long gulp finishes the warm glass of milk, out of the room there was a buffalo, a goat , and a huge pile of dry straw, some hens around , the old man did not go anywhere , where could he go, his two other visitors sat talking about the patient , when khawar emerged they all turned to stare at him, the barber was working on the old man's white beard, the other man was a mountain of flesh who flirted with resham , who threatened him she would go to his fiancé
khawar asks where was he, she innocently tells him giving him the vague location of his whereabouts, he was in the middle of nowhere, on oneside horsedrawn carts -tongas carried villagers to bus station that took them to Gujranwala, the village was actually muaradanwalai distorted to mardawali, , on another side was khairo gaon,and somewhere near by was sahewal,, resham"s pride was apparent that she was the only educated girl drop out from school , , that her maternal uncle was tailor who had stitched the clothes for her last eid season she wore
khawar had come to after two days , he had lost everything precious, resham had saved him because she had gone with friends that day to finish her weekly washing ,on the riverside, she could swim,,other girls ran away seeing a dead body floating in the river, resham pulled him out, called a local nurse and he was in time given medical care
the old man called out to resham a young woman in twenties who had saved khawar, he wanted to know if others in the wagon had survived or found dead, the wagon was still not recovered, the simplicity of his rescuers did not inform him much
he had been a good swimmer , but without practice his lungs gave up, soon he collapsed, when he opened his eyes he observed he was in a small poorly village cottage room, on a coir cord charpoy, a plain cotton mattress and a pillow, a window on one side , and an old man puffed his hooka , when khawar cried out with pain the old man thanked god for bringing him to life
he opened his eyes , his mind played the flashback in slowmotion, his wagon had exploded , there was someaccident on the bridge when they were crossing over the river , he had like an expert diver filled his lungs with air to breathe under water,, he could hold it for two minutes then he died, he had died he knew it , in the van he looked for nurin before dying she was also dead
nurin started weeping because khawar was making fun of their situation, she was worried for they were locked up inside, the door was shut , khawar suggested they could get out only if they turned ants, or by magic the doors flew open,
the friends reputation and understanding and faith on each other and their own choices and values they stand for makes them so authentic and real, admiring each other their case was solved , both live to remember the judge never let the wrong doer go free under any circumstances and a police officer "s last case remained unsolved for the public but justice was done, the accused was punished, honesty in work matters, the purpose must not be defeated
the day of Khalid's retirement had come, he was having his tea with his olf childhood friend -the session judge -when an urge to offer a couplet Khalid said--
no dagger in hand, no stain on sleeve
what a deadly game it is, what a wizard you are-
Khalid and his associates with their heads joining to solve the murder of the accused in the court found the reports revealed it was some deadly poison which had made the dead accused fall before the judge and the other present during the trial, pressing his chest in acute pain
the session judge had called him this time to inform him about the accused who was released , though all knew him to be guilty but the witnesses were compromised and sold out, changed statements and upper law experts pressurized him to change his verdict, all that police officer had to do was to give proper security to the man so that he would not be eliminated , to make his last case memorable before he retired
both were childhood friends, afaq ahmed -session judge and Khalid randhawa police officer, now their children had been married and they turned family, it was their daily custom to spend time together discussing and having tea, he was the judge and he was retiring after his last case as police officer
the sun had snk in the far distant line of horizon of the desert, Robert walked this time purposefully not fearing his death , he could not run away, slid was a professional killer, but as fate is fate nobody can avert what must come
slid who in the beginning had been very aggressive found Robert very interesting, giving in to his final request as right to know who was it who had hired slid to remove Robert slid tells him it was janko claud, shocked Robert exclaimed he was his best friend he had believed, slid advised he ought to have selected right friends
Robert also shared how his seven year old daughter adored him, she drew his pictures and signed them with a flare of a great artist, though he had little time but he made it a custom to tell her stories before going to bed
Robert tells slid he was ready to die , there was no choice, no use doubling his offer he had rejected already, he loved his faily, two kids and his wife, son at thirteen was poor footballer , thin and not bright at passing the ball and unable to speculate its moves
Robert begins to share his personal life with slid , who already knew him and stubbornly made him to dig a grave for himself, by the evening, when Robert asks for a cigarette, he was allowed to smoke his last cigarette, slid was rather impressed by Robert , his attitude and toughness,
the man opened the dikky and dragged his victim out, who was tied up, untiying his mouth he said how he would like to die, some options were given , Robert said he was ready to give him millions only if he would free him,
the man dressed up in syle looked around , the desert was for miles and mils without a soul in sight, the dawn casted light, it was at least one hundred degrees , he went towards the dikky, knocked on it and stifled sounds came from within
that car stopped with a sudden jerk, skidding to a halt on the sand, the driver got down and banged his door noisily, dressed in most distinguished style, his cut was extraordinary, wearing poloroid glasses,, branded shoes,
chanda debated with her self, what Josephine had told her, money was all important and for that using men as social ladder was fine for women like them, honesty and hardwork would tire them , easy life was their goal, if she was also ready to join such practices chanda could without any stigmas attached could find many protectors
chanda asked Josephine what was her reasons for liking her so much, what was her relationship with her father, Josephine explained the true nature of the natural sin, , how she was giving her father and other for money companionship
Josephine was a staff nurse in her forties, over weight and not so pretty , the reason she was still single, she spent her time in performing her duties well and doting on chanda and zarina under training nurses , helping them to improve their grades to get a degree
chanda came home , holding her marriage licence, her husband was doctor muanwar ali, , she recalled how she was given a friendly advice by another doctor to make this fake marriage work and prove herself worthy of her husband , if possible, because it would make her then the most fortunate woman on the earth
moisture is quickly dried out , good oil massage before and ater bath if regularly instilled in habit makes the skin look better and glowing, specially lips become parched and painfully torn feel does not allo one to speak or eat or open his mouth freely, winter care tips are given
over possessive parents hover all the time over their children, desparate and jealous, this is not proper as much as neglecting them, taking proper care of children is to allow them certain freedom, guide them wisely , be protective, and let them have good friends , with whom they can share their ideas, and learn more skills and develop talents
carrot is a amazingly rich store house of proteins vitamins and minerals, benefitial to human beings, easy to grow, easy to cook in different styles or consumes raw and uncooked in salads and juices, easy to get ,this wonder equals red palm oil and cod liver oil in nature
waris ali answered the call, it was barhan, asking for directions to his house, this was unexpected, he had never thought barhan would like to come to his house to see sitara in his absence
tears rolled down shabina's cheeks, but there was not a trace of any emotion in sitara's eyes, they decided to see each other again, as jabar ali came in shabina retreated her steps , she was to leave
the doctore suggested to chanda to be ready early morning by five to leave without being noticed from the hospital to get a fake marriage licence, , she could have the rooms on the left to herself
his brother in law left and the family reunion was very satisfying and emotional, late at night he suddenly woke up to find his wife was missing , looking for her in the washroom, other rooms, passages , store rooms, he found she was not there , the door of the basement was a jar and he heard her talking to someone invisible as she laughed softly discussing him
he was returning from America after three years, in kerachi the airplane landed safely , he looked around for his wife shamina and daughter naghina in the crowd , they were waiting for him with his brother in law who drove them home
faisal was using that rich woman --daughter of a rich distinguished man to climb the social ladder, on the other hand zenab married to umar finds her fortunes had changed for the better, umar got better position, a house, and things in general started improving till one day afya comes back
life is always incredible , life is unpredictable, faisal and afya in three months time living together in a house without his parents have certain freedom every new bride wants, zenab enjoys the family set up, her bedridden old mother in law, a quick tempered sister in law who is over clever and quickly had shaken off from her duties dumping them all over zenab,, but zenab is not only good natured but kind and unassuming, not expecting anything in return
afya"s father was paralysed, nobody ever mentioned her name it became a taboo, zenab was happy because she loved working in the house, she cooked, cleaned and liked the dresses given to the bride , the home she missed , the freedom of having first hand things , she enjoyed, though she was not married to become a fulltime hosue manager, but it was understood that umar had enjoyed afya's company and she was just filling up the gap,
