-he then asked him about the bicycle but the robber would not speak up, then they heard some heavy footsteps above and approaching , jabin "s face appeared and he told his father the police gad reached them, perhaps it was the stolen cycle they had brought, he wished he had not taken law into his own hands and filed a report of the stolen cycle
-he was on the bridge waiting when he saw two boys walking past him, one of them wore the same shoes he had got for his son, he began following them, his purpose was to give them a scare, one of them turned one way the other who had threatened jabin with a knife turned another way, he quickly caught him and forced him to a confession,
-in a local college there was just one science lab and the boys and girls had to share it, the teacher was rather conservative and drew a line with a chalk in the middle to segregate the boys and girls , who ever crossed the line had to pay for the first time starting from five rupees and second time the amount increased to ten and then to fifteen , one sharp mouth asked if seasonal rebate will be given for bulk crossings
-new village doctor to the grave digger- so how is life getting on with you
-the poor man- thanks to you all is good, since you started practicing in the village at least one order a week is certain
-hamid was injured in a bike accident and fainted, two days later he opened his eyes in a hospital room, he saw a doctor standing near him with a good and another bad news, the bad news is during his operation his good leg was cit off, from hamid"s mouth escaped a pained sigh, then controlling his emotions he asked what was the good news, the doctor explained his injured leg was getting better
-she said she was educated by her baba and need not go anywhere else, she was decided she will live there and apply for a teacher's job in a school, but all she got to hear was nobody ever took up a job specially no girl in the family ever worked outside their home, what will people say, that brother can not afford to feed her and she was forced to go out to earn her own bread
-she did not let her father complete his statement and said she was ready to marry anyone they wanted her to but they should not speak so again to her ,sahib khan patted her head , he laughed and promised he would never say such things again to her frightened daughter and after that he never got another chance to speak again, that very night he suffered a heart stroke and the hospital declared him brought dead
zalikha hundreds of times explained to him the little girl was his sister, but he was full of anger , he just hated the child , sahib khan was very accurately and in detail observing the situation, the problem was they both him and zalikha were aging and old age was painful, if god forbid something happened to him and zalikha who will support their daughter
-he said to bibi if she did not trust him she must get herself checked up from a lady doctor, when the hospital lady doctor confirmed the news zalikha was stunned , her prayers had not worked so long and now that the prayers were answered she could not contain her joy, sahib khan also rejoiced , their life , their world and their family was filled with so much happiness they had been praying for
--this time also it was a boy, actually not just one boy but twins and salahat khan placed one bundle into the lap of zalikha, saying it was not his and shabritin"s child bit zalikha"s and his brother sahib khan"s son, zalikha became nervous, how could he, the infant was shabritin"s child and shabritin was a mother , her tone was bitter and hurt , at least he ought to have taken shabritin"s permission before taking such a huge step
-the nature of time is to pass and it does pass away, salahat khan "s son turned two with the grace of almighty, all was going on well, one day she whispered in his ear another new addition was going to join their small family soon, he jumped up with joy not ready to listen any more , whether it is going to be a girl or a boy it will be considered not salahat khan"s but sahib khan"s and the new born shall be the heir of all sahib khan"s properties
- and the next day sahib khan called a capable lawyer to get their lands divided, in the presence of this competent lawyer the son was given his honest share sahib khan had inherited from his own father but not a penny from his own hard earned money, son kept fuming in silent rage but the situation was so delicate he decided to remain quiet
-the fool is asking for his share, demanding his rights, as if its his reward of hard earned sweat and blood, zalikha quickly gave her husband a glass of water to put off his rage, she spoke in her deep tone that in his father"s inheritance his son also had a legal share so better give him his share and let him marry the girl of his choice and just be free
-it was at the weekened he observed how swollen her eyes were, he asked her to go to the guest room and he will take care of khala as he was free and she needed rest, on his so much insistence she gave pills and dinner to khala and went to bed, he began to engage khala in some interesting gossip to spend her time, but khala seemed not at all interested in his conversation and was lost in her own thoughts
-khala "s BP suddenly shot up, she was rushed to the hospital at night, she stayed there for two days, all that time day and night shamin was with her, on the other hand he kept spinning between office, home and hospital like crazy, on the third day khala was discharged and returned home, some peace and rest was felt, for her sake shamin constantly stayed with khala,
-khalu expressed his feelings , he was happy with him,for his support and help, he could depend on him,, he told khalu not to say like that for it was his ethical duty, he was not doing any favour , khalu stopped him from speaking any further, instead he began expressing himself, he was aware he was doing his duty towards him but the world never was so committed as him, nobody is so honest in performing his own duty, all he could do was make him his new MD
-it is nice to sacrifice personal likes over the likes of the loved ones, she said mahi had insisted she had bought gifts for them all and wanted mazmal to use them and accept them, and was she not looking good having accepted them and using them, there was no reason to refuse , what made him and anyone object to it, her manner of speaking so far was exceptionally simple and her sudden question thrown at him made him jump he answered in a sad tone, , who am i to object to your decisions
-he said his nature was absolutely different from mazmal"s , shamin smiled and asked how was it possible that two incompatible persons live a life together, the question was relevant and yet it was unanswerable,
-love is more important than nature, because love can soften every one , even different minded people come together to live together for life in love, love fills up lives and leaves no space for attitudes that are shown by the strong minded and strong natured
-ammi asked madshar to take her to shamina"s it was very important and she had early morning spoken of it to mazmal but he was an uncaring man , when she rang him up he said he was busy with his friends enjoying,in the farm house, it will take at least two more hours for him to reach home, when he will he must be so tired and will not want to go anywhere with ammi
-khalu was a strict man , but he did not squeeze his fist and rather handsomely paid to teach him, in fact he always made it a point to praise him before khala, that he was far better than mazmal who was immature , this was the main reason for khalu to return from canada back to pakistan, to discipline him from becoming a loafer and focus on business
-zalikha screamed at gul why he was such a mischief maker, her scream made gulzar jump up as he dropped his match box and all the sticks fell around scattered, zalikha tried to catch him but he slipped out of her hands and ran away, zalikha quickly held her daughter and looked at her with motherly love and spoke to her warmly at that point her husband sahib khan stepped into the room smiling and asked what was going on between mother and daughter he also wanted to know
-he sent his uncle with his marriage proposal
-but alas, his fate is low
-himself got married to his nephew"s beloved
- what a forgetful nature matchmaker has
- it is usually said that english is a universal language because it is spoken globally and connects peoples and cultures but this is a mere myth and not correct, if the population worldwide is divided into five main linguistic groups- mandarin, spanish, english , hindi and arabic the facts say english on this index is on the third position
-hakim sahib's daughter was an amazing beauty, he just once visited the hakim sahib "s place when he needed some help in fever, usually he followed alopathy but this time why he turned to the hakim"s clinic he was not sure, the clinic was on his way , every time he passed the clinic he would read the board, perhaps he was also a honorary lecturer in come western college
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it was one winter night of january, he looked at his wrist watch the radium showed it was ten, ,but the darkness, silence and eeriness suggested it must be past mid night, he was then with the ASI in the cemetery, for winter they had added extra warm clothings on their uniforms, besides the junior officer was carrying his official bag containing hand cuffs, locks and torch and so on
-the officer described the scene and the conversation so accurately that the murshid asked slowly defeated if he had some bugs planted in his place and was listening , the officer explained his close associate had turned police informer , mukhbir asked for the details but the officer knew he could never disclose the identity of his informer bakhtey and instead must keep the secret for life and to tickle the man"s mind he answered mysteriously there was someone so close to musrshid who was not loyal to him,
-he asked annoyed so many followers visited him every day how could he tell who all visited him in a day or on a specific day, his pride was evident, the officer coolly ignored his rage and asked who particularly visited him last friday during the after noon, adding asked the officer who was he so much interested in knowing about , the officer explained he wanted to know about the person who was not a local resident of faridkot, he described the man repeating the description bakhtey had given him, startled the murshid said that was taimur
-the murshid had in the middle of the field built a living place an abode for himself, when he stepped into the abode the officer was not worried much for his police station was just a five minute walk from there and he could walk back in the dark, jami welcomed the officer , jami was a large sized muscular man loyal to the murshid , jami quickly grasping the situation ushered the uniformed officer into the murshid"s room
-his treatment removed all the worries from the mindscape of master muhammed yusuf , explaining what he understood from the husband of khalida was that she after her lover"s death also believed herself pledged to him and mentally was not prepared to be wedded to anyone else,
-these elders also more than some times make foolish decisions, he said frowning, he believed all was abba ji and the maulvi"s mistake, if the fathers had not persuaded them so stubbornly into this marriage all would have been fine, for the three main persons one must never speak against , first of one"s parents who bring him into this world, second the teacher who instills in him thoughts and the third like the maulvi who guides them
- and then she died just ten days after she got married, khalida "s name was not written on the grave because she had not accepted him as her husband, so how was she his faithful wife, as one could see on her grave next to her name was written her father the maulvi"s name, the officer said he had seen the grave and also his face and noticed each and every passing shade of expression
- she saod she will get them their food as they talked, her manner seemed rather changed , she was a different daulat bibi from her previous self, the investigating officer politely refused to have her serve him food, she also argued how was it possible he will stay without eating, she swung her hands in the air , the first thing yusuf did was eat when he comes back from the school
-the third most important family was of master yusuf, he was his parents only child, he was twenty seven ad was a primary teacher in the local school and taught grade third and fourth , his gather was a trader of beasts and usually had to make frequent trips outside faridkot, these days also he was gone towards gukra
-when they reached the murshid"s residence someone was already present in his abode, she explained they stopped outside and waited, she heard him say inside today the matter of the grave must be resolved, she heard the other person answer he had talked to a boy and the matter will be resolved at night,then minutes later two men emerged from the murshid"s room, one was his servant and the other an absolute stranger
-ehrn the old grave digger told the investigating officer about his murshid who had some powers and would get annoyed to know how the old man was discussing him , the officer pitied his condition, he asked if he ever thought of the almighty who created him and his murshid, awkwardly the baba explained he did have much faith in almighty, the officer said he who fears god fears nobody else and he who asks Him depends on nobody else in the world
-baba was an old weak sick man and he was now finding his job rather tough for him, so he had kept his nephew a fifteen year old young healthy boy alyas to assist him , though he was not around, because the boy had gone to see his parents in qila shekhopura , the officer asked the cemetery of the village where he was a grave digger was quite small, so he must be aware of each and every one by name who were buried there, the old man explained the bigger the town the bigger the cemetery
-the investigating officer said it seemed she wanted to tell him something, she nodded , but first he must see chiraghdin the grave digger , she will wait for him to return . respecting her suggestion and knowing she had some very important piece of information to give he went in the room to see baba chiragan alias chiraghdin who was tucked in , he at once sat ip and shivering said he was unwell or would have come to meet the officer himself in the cemetery but his fever did not allow him
-the investigating officer asked all the gathered to leave and he decided to see the grave digger in his room where he was lying sick , the mourners left but one woman whose speed seemed deliberately slow and who kept on looking at the officer drew his attention, he asked her to stop and tell him her name, she came closer , she was an ordinary woman with plain looks in her mid forties , she said she was bakhat bibi and was called bakhtey
-he again visited the same spot of last friday where the grave was , the soil was damp and soft and grass seemed old, he was not ready at all to believe basharat"s dead body walked out from the grave, this was arshad bibi"s belief and he had to prove her wrong and for that he must gather evidence and facts
-the officer asked who this khalida pointing towards her grave, arshad bibi said she w as the daughter of a maulvi and died one month ago, she was just married when she died, startled he asked what did she mean by that, was she saying the dead woman khalida was married
-everyone has in some manner heard , read or experienced and seen the incidents related to the dead and their graves, the following is a unusual tale of the extraordinary kind, it was a winter on its peak, he was newly posted to that police station one day he reached his office as regularly on routine punctually, he was informed there some strange incident seemed to trouble shoot last night in the cemetery
-his eyes as if lost their shine and he pilled out his pistol from the holster, it was then he felt some commotion behind his back, first he thought the girl must have succeeded in getting up on her feet and managed to get out, then sudden three explosions were heard one after the other, as he heard the bullets whisk past his left ear, he saw herald was bullet ridden, his dying moan was painful as he fell down
-he said they were in a gallery, what was the problem executing the task in the old fashioned manner, if he had any money he would come to buy a painting there of his choice, but herald declared rather helplessly the painting unfortunately was not for sale , it was an art piece gotten from a museum, all others paintings were on sale except this particular one, to confirm he showed his painting that he held in his hands with the tag
-on khala"s persuasion he continued his studies and managed to complete his B .Com, he was in his final year when khala returned with her entire family to live in kerachi, khalu felt kerachi was suitable for his business, when he finished his B.Com khala invited him to stay with them, abbu did not stop him from visiting his khala for he was annoyed with him and was certain his sister will manage to guide him better
-the matter was so that his khalu uncle had gone to earn money and khala aunt stayed back home alone to run the system smoothly singlehandedly , the eldest son of khala aunt was mazal ahmed who was a year younger to him and hadya was four years younger to mazal, khala "s life was trapped in her children and after her sister died her son also became her life,
-he had heard so many tales of cheating and deception but he did not know was one day his own heart will cheat on him, leaving a vacuum in his chest to settle down on the feet of shamin akhtar who was already betrothed to someone else, and this someone was none other than his own khala"s son mazmal ahmed, whose mother was his khala who showered all her love on him
-friendship was defined as animosity
-stranger he was in his own native land
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-there is a difference between man to man
-this was maintained as a rule
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-when he talked of his rights
-he was laughed at
-all his arguments were taken as madness
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-never was brought a word of complaint
-all their life on tongue
-this patience was considered a weakness of theirs
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-the faceless are famous all around
-the real faces were ignored as useless
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-why one should settled down where
-where pleasantness is highlighted as unwanted
-hamza exclaimed -come on amna the woman is merely an actor of the movie,
-so what , she is also a woman, stamping her feet in rage amna walked away to the door, he ran after her calling her mad, she agreed she was mad for him, he somehow managed to stop her , he promised never again to praise that heroine, in fact he declared he will never see her movies in future, a smile came on her lips but her eyes were filled with tears,
-asya bano explained to hamza the girl nghma was nice and homely and from the family, cousin from his father"s sister"s side , that his father was also happy and longing for this matrimonial to finalize, all were happy, but hamza had forgotten the definition of happiness, amna had swept off all their joys in her eyes and gone into deep sleep
-he stopped and said to hamza his son he was aware in what condition amna was before them, four years had passed, raza ahmed"s voice trapped in his throat as he asked how long will hamza wait for her to come alive again, he would suggest hamza accepted asya bano"s proposal she was interested in for past one year , but hamza was not ready to give any other woman the same position he gave amna, who was so dear to her that on her birth asya bano had asked for the new born"s hand for her son hamza, but it was destiny that amna fate rejected her to be his wife and just a week before their wedding this mishap took place
-it is nice to sacrifice personal likes over the likes of the loved ones, she said mahi had insisted she had bought gifts for them all and wanted mazmal to use them and accept them, and was she not looking good having accepted them and using them, there was no reason to refuse , what made him and anyone object to it, her manner of speaking so far was exceptionally simple and her sudden question thrown at him made him jump he answered in a sad tone, , who am i to object to your decisions 
