from previous...

,.... sara told amayam  it was arbaz,s proposal brought by hina his sister and mother , arib wanted to eat his food , sara alone cooked  for arib for he didn't like anybody's  cooking,,  taimur, s mother was trying to hurry up  his wedding, asking for instant  rukhsati,  disappointment was clearly visible on others faces

from previous...

....sara was instructed to  take tea on trolly  to serve the guests gathered in the lounge,,she was feeling so shy, teasingly she was rebuked not to  over react to the pleasant  situation,  amayam began ushering her , hina and her mother sat sara  close to them, amayam smiled,  groom,s mother  expressed her fears for taimur  who could have gone astray and married a wrong bride 

from previous...

....amayam  goes to the kitchen thinking sara had called her to help her, sara tells her shyly  this was a marriage proposal  come for her, , arib stepping in after  amayam  says was it not crazy of them to send a proposal for  her,  that shyness  suddenly exploded and sara argued arib to explain  what he meant exactly by that

from previous...

....amayam was shopping books  and stationary with arib in the market,  she  was phonher to quickly return home  for Hina  had come  with her phuphu,  it could take them more than one hour but this was enmergency,   she turned her car homewards,  reaching home she found all of them waiting for her in the lounge 

from previous...

.... raksha explained her self,  girls always m6st leave their parental home after they get married,  she too was daughter of the family,  one day she had to go away  and then arib will miss her cooking he was so used to,  sara then entered the scene asking amayam  what wars were her future plans  after  completing her MBA, like all homely girls  amayam  was not given a choice and her brother decided she did her MBA, now others will decide what should she do in future 

from previous...

....ramsha  entering the kitchen abd opening  various  drawers asked  amayam what was she doing, well she was now making  sweet milk rice pudding, Aruba had ordered it , he relished her cooking, he would definitely miss her when she is gone,  ramsha, s statement  made her look at her  startled 

from previous...

....  sara  praised  amayam,s grecian beauty,  but she argued she was Italian  looking not Greek,  sara agreed it was her short nose , so flat noses belonged to Chinese so she was Chinese, but amayam was tall and the Chinese women were not that tall, exaggerating  her height  to equal  eighteen feet ,  by that time cooking was done  and she shut off the stove, sara ran out into the corridor as amayam  chased her to  directly  run into some one 

page 32...

....sara looked at amayam who was cooking  food in the heat of the kitchen, her face flushed and sweaty yet highighting her extraordinary beauty,  expressing her opinion  that the college  management  must be blind not to have selected her fir tge role of the princess with her perfect grecian looks instead they selected  ordinary looking girl

from previous...

....almighty  instructed Moses not to fear at all

....to remember always His presence was around 

....to go to the pharos  both to tell

....almighty is the owner of the world 

....therefore  we approach them

....said pharaoh  to Moses  then

....you were absent  and not around long time 

....you killed you must remember 

....Moses confessed  his sin

from previous....

....when Moses was instructed by almighty 

....all those belonged to the clan of  pharaoh 

....Moses exclaimed  he was scared

....hus heart sinking his tongue speechless 

....he had killed  

....almighty declared not to fear at all

Rehman hy John bada rehemwala...

....almighty sends instructions to them

....they who have forgotten Hispower

....He alone shall  display His strength 

....don't  they see the lands and world 

....signs of presence of almighty  there

....only almighty can save you  as your protector 

dua...

....getting out of your house 

....first you must pray

....because in unseen corners

....at unpredictable time

....in what appearance 

....waiting long to pounce

....death

....claws clutching   you

....not letting you then recite

....so dear friend 

....every time you leave  your house 

....first pray it could be the last

gazal...

....its a strong complaint  that they are not loved 

....they are loved just that love is not expressed 

....talking of love sometimes  of hate

....no wall is dividing sentiments  in between 

....success makes whom arrogant 

....who loves such of them

....doing the tasks that mind commands 

....never defying personal character 

....reciting the same  gazal repeatedly 

....not offending the invited readers in gathering 

from previous....

....abbu, dear , I shall always remember and miss this house , its walls comfort and space  where I grew up,  surrounded with those built in brick  to give protection  and shelter,  the cool shade that comforted me like its warmth enveloped  me, buried deep in the memories of this is my childhood,  it was not merely a house but a place of worship to me,  my precious  joys  are treasured here in the yard,  the winter sun and the summer heat, the waters and the smell of mud will make me nostalgic,, abby dear when I am gone protect my butterflies, nurture my blossoms,  take good care of them as you did of me , her voice choking sobbing never believing one day she had to give up all she appreciated in her early life 

gazal...

....separated  is soul ever since  beloved left

....life is filled with complete darkness since they left

....loneliness  ,sorrows of separation and pathos

....surrounded is the vacant settlement by robbers of residents

....your absence turned  blooming spring  to  rustic autumn 

....life is absolutely meaningless without you

....was not  lightning glances enough to kill

....life is intoxicating sentiments  with your wholesome presence 

....how can fake flowers emit fragrance 

....disappointing  those who admire authenticity 

....there no complaints remain about life anymore 

....one more person  was found just like me 

from previous...

....buncha was very natural and sensitive,  now bothering her was Adnan who was incapacitated,  her eyes emotionally  flooded  disturbed him, he tried to explain he would definitely recover,  her beauty was enhanced  with her sincerity,  , his beloved was once again shedding those precious pearls 

from previous...

....her tiny soft heart would get hurt  at smallest insignificant  matter,, it could be anything like raza sahib reaching home late from the university,   sometimes  it was begun Raza,  s blood pressure,  on other times  her bus  was un well that made innocent and naughty  guncha cry

from previous...

....guncha was a carefree  curvy stream  yet highly emotional and  sensitive,  she would break into tears at   simple  things,  whether she had a fever or saw someone in pain  she got extremely  disturbed and depressed,  her eyes flooded,  , she would get hyper  and lost her peace of mind 

page 17...

....they embraced the newborn baby  delicate and rose petal like inn their arms, ahned adored her innocent looks,  both parents  were divided  emotionally,  then khairan  reached Pakistan,  both sisters ayaba and khairan were  not on friendly relations,  begum raza tried to contact  them but their behavior  already had broken off their bondings,  newborn  guncha, s father ahmed   after  the demise of guncha,s mother  came closer to raza begum and  raza ahmed

from previous...

....like any normal person Howard also  loved having new cars, he owned a Cadillac and a couple of rolls Royce', in his monkey brain an idea was born to  fit his cars with steam engines to increase their speed, he got his idea executed and drove it  on the road  for a few weeks but he was banned officially  , his car was a threat  to others

from previous...

....Howard was diagnosed  partial paralysis,  he could not  change or do anything with his limbs, he decided to hire a hotel and moved in with his wife, girl friends,  nurses, staff to stay there,  he had nothing else to do  but sit in his chair , he recovered and paid the hotel their rent in  more than nine digits

from previous...

....rita  was an amerian   actress, her daughter was married to prince agha khan, on 1980 when rita fell  terminally I'll her daughter  looked after her till rita died at the age of 68, , Howard had reached the heights of success and became arrogant and insolent,  he began shooting of a film bear his house 

page 67...

....howard was  made to love, love was  quintessentially natural to him,  in 1947 he fell in love with rita,  they were seen together  roaming    , driving ,  here and there,  newspaper  stories  spoke of their love,  that rita  reached his apartment in a car, his bedroom lights turned on,  she  stepped into  his apartment and the lights were turned off 

from previous...

.....Howard  was careless carefree and  once told his reporter friend he invited three different girls on a date on the same day same  time  same spot , he didn't meet them and watched them and their  behaviour,  when the  girls turned out waiting long time for him he enjoyed it  very much,  then he appeared before them and explained  what his experiment was taking one of them  away to have fun

from previous...

....ella rice divorced Howard because  he was not like regular  husbands who obey wives and come home  and follow a set  routine,  after giving him a divorce she married james and happily luved with him for fifty nine years till she died in 1992, 

from previous...

....Howard  became much intrested in technology,  actively participated in his flying club, then jumped into  the  movies,  he opened a company, he also bought and sold real estate  and soon enough  multiplied his assets,  in 1925  just at the age of twenty  he married ella rice,  he lived with her till they divorced in 1928 in California 

from previous...

....Howard played golf with his  seniors  and established himself as one of the best players in Las Vegas  but he had to stop playing golf after an accident in 1920, thereafter he  didn't want to stay home and moved into a rented room in a hotel,  he  joined a flying club

page 65...

....he  sold off his father's  spare parts factory that was making profit and at eighteen became a millionaire,  he was profiteering from the factory but had no technical knowledge about spare parts and  now with the money he began planning to invest it in some other business he could understand  and besides  playing golf he knew nothing 

from previous...

....Howard  was born December  24 1905 in Houston  and died 5 April  1976, his last home was Houston  Texas,  , his father was a merchant,  his uncle was a writer director producer of films, , not much other information is got about his relatives,  his father wanted to be  a lawyer but found  out it was not his line and put away  all the books,

page 63...

....nobody can be blamed for  anyone who has  all the luck in the world,  luxuries,  wealth, established business  relationships,  status,  power,  position and name and fame,   Howard  was  one such  man and reaching the peak  he lost perspective and began  behaving crazy, with nothing else to work for, nothing to strive for,  nothing to struggle for,  no aim left

from previous...

...a small boy fails in his class and instead of telling his father he had failed he asked him when father as a school going kid failed was he beaten up, if grandfather  in his class failed and was bashed up by his father and was it not  high time both  father and son  got together to change thus family tradition of cruelty to children 

from previous...

....she was a graduate, married and extraordinary beautiful,  life is very long and not so easy, compromises  have to be made to get along  whether  the mind allows it not, values allow or not, life  is demanding , rani goes to her bedroom  without cooking  for herself and her lawfully wedded husband  liyaqat, she slept like a  log, she woke up hours later hungry, liyaqat tells her he too was hungry and decided to get food from outside,  there were several missed calls on her expensive cell phone  , she waits for her packed food and  rings up  the caller of missed calls

from previous...

....liyaqat looking at her worrying said he had asked his boss for forgiveness  and now they must hope for the best but she was to come along with him to the hotel  for she too was invited if she refused  liyaqat, s boss might send him to jail and she will be left alone in this new strange world  and how and what will she do, she refused and could not eat her food that he already knew of, he ought to have said all this after the meal was over , but  her refusal  annoyed liyaqat and he screamed at her

gazal...

....every  traveler  leaves after staying a few days 

....in every rest house and inn nobody stays long enough 

....shades of sorrows  color life

....which consists of a few days

....tide of time that made your small nest 

....shall be undone in a few days 

....ambushing your life is silently waiting your enemy 

....your beloved waits in garden  but your life is over 

....one day you shall declare it yourself they are unfaithful 

....so be closely involved with life itself 

....one day all the beauty must perish

....youth is deadly just a few days 

....poetically  creative moon and stars are the theme 

....simply to stay in romance a few more days

from previous...

....liyaqat informed the headmaster about his transfer to Lahore from multan, he also agreed with liyaqat, she got herself busy in packing,  reaching multan two days later liyaqat left to join his post in Lahore,  he explained they would not get official residence  in Lahore like the one in multan so he will take charge and arrange for a rented house and three days later he came back and they  both left for kahore early next morning 

page 11...

....and it was the next morning  that liyaqat declared they must go back home,  though she still wanted emotionally to stay on there for some more days  remembering  her mother  but he explained there was a phone call from his office,  the official enquiry against him was completed and he was found not guilty,  he was now transferred to Lahore 

from previous...

....she began relaxing,  life was treating her nice,  she was  brightening up as her life was smoothly moving on, but suddenly some idea cropped into his mind  and he decided to sell off his ancestral house, his siblings arrived , they were against the  idea but he stubbornly refused to listen to any one,  he sent his phuphu aunt to multan, then he got himself fully into the  selling  of the house,  he got fake documents  made and his siblings  got that corrupt man arrested

from previous....

.....she discussed the matter with her abusive husband liyaqat that she had passed inter and wanted to join  BA classes, with late fees she was admitted to her classes, liyaqat seemed to  be cooperating  , just two months were left for exams and she focused determinedly  in her studies,  lyaqat would drop her to the examination center and wait until she was finished and drove her back, all seemed to be going fine, he had stopped beating her 

from previous...

....she was sick of this  lifestyle,  it was becoming impossible for  her to  breathe freely,  she had no choice but to suffer,  somtimes  she thought of going back  but the condition of amma was poor and she then changed her mind, , she almost daily spoke to her on the phone,  the head master had bought  amma a cheap mobile phone,  from here she used her expensive phone to connect with amma, and one day the head master  informed her she had passed with good grades and  she could  get admission in degree college 

page 9...

....this was an absolutely new manner to lead a life,   totally different from what she was used to so far, in the past all those who surrounded her were kind and generous,  amma, ABBA,  brothers, headmaster and others,  none of them was rich but they all were very sincere and helpful,   this new life was absolutely new to her,  there was no end to  shopping  hut the atmosphere was choking with the smell of drunkenness,  where a woman was illtreated,  such  people lose respect and socially  discarded 

naat...

....all the mechanics of the universe in its entirety 

....recite  and resonate day and night  with meanings of baat

....hajj, zakath, Rashid, roza, and namaz

....five precious  pearls  are  gifts from the aqa

from previous...

....across the window  the moon was slowly moving  towards the end of its journey,  abruptly its journey ended,   the left over night also passed off  painfully,  just like that  golden dreams of  evergreen  future  buried  underneath  the ashes of  shattered  sentiments,  all the past memories  kept hurting   to merge  their identity into the passing off night

shab e mairaj...

....how to narrate  the tale of night of ascent 

....how to wrap up entire sea in a container 

....in whose praise the universe is made

....in his  aura  all heavens are made

....the world  is built in whose light

....abundance  is  bestowed from whose light

....without his presence nothing was po

....no angels no life no skies would be

....who can praise  your ethereal beauty  truly

....who else can equal you can describe you

....desire of seeing  almighty rose in mind

....to meet the beloved  love was  born

....

page 12...

....he wanted to  be happy,   he wanted to come closer to aqaba but his past was  not letting him, his helplessness was  apparent in his tone,  she would ask Adnan  how long will he  moan and groan complaining of his past,  who can change destiny anyway, nobody can  be partner  in destiny, 

ey yar rere Andy...

....Adnan  clutched his head tight,  his mind was grinding  him,,   the  noise was tormenting him, he just wanted to get rid off that sound,  he was sitting in his dark room,  guncha  just then  came out from  raza sahib,s room  and crossing  past Adnan, s room to go towards her own,  he heard the grinding sound of the wheel chair,  he shut his ears but his mind wouldn't stop  thinking  of it

husn...

.... all the lost civilizations and the evolved ones  have historical evidence that they used herbs  to beautify and embalm  the dead and the living,  these creatures  were more godly and  to stay godlike in appearance they gained  knowledge of ordinary and extraordinary  things  and  practised  healing and adopted  this  herbal   lifestyle,  modernity has merely  developed more technology and  luring commercially  a community of  clientele  who would like  believe  its their good luck to grab the herbal product showing pictures  of vintage herbs their grandmother  used  at home 

mayonaise...

....bext time you make a mayonaise sandwich just remember to  save a spoonful for your home beauty treatment plan  as a cosmetic  moisturizer product,  it also is a good hair conditioner, its useful  In a  little more ways, besides a its a good facial  cleanser and home cleaner, 

dopatta...

....dopatta us a large wide quite long  veil to cover a woman from head to toe , in the olden days English brides also wore veils  as did  women in many cultures , usually these veils were silk or delicate net  transparent  or translucent  white or black but modern time women  are mostly working outside their homes and the paces of the world is speeding up  so many dignified and traditional  accessories  are discarded to be replaced by other newest versions but  dopatta  is more of a completion of a dress and adds  personality  to the wearer

from previous...

....on hearing the  news of her father's  fatal  accident  the whole village turned silent  in gloom, amma fainted,  it was explained the bike was hit by a fast speeding car coming from abrabad,  then  the killer   car speeding up disappeared  in the distance in the direction of haripur,  nobody noted down the number of the car

from previous...

....their village was situated between haripur and haweliya,   her abba  every morning on his bike ride to hawelia,   Jamaal always accompanied him,  from there he caught  a bus from abraham to haripur to attend his college,  he was aspiring to become a police officer 

from previous...

....her father's advice  in her mind  got fixed up and she worked harder and never again  came second in her class, in  matric she held third position in entire district,   she had just begun to dream  but suddenly  all  of her dreams crashed  down and ended,  she aspired to be a doctor but she was left orphaned 

from previous...

.... her parents kept her name  rani, what she is now called  she is not ready to disclose so rani it be,  that rani who was the pet of her teacher father and favourite of her brother,  , that rani who if stood second in class cried her eyes out, ,  teacher father explained it was her own fault  and nobody else to be blamed 

khoonewafa...

....after reading her story  she is certain  every one will use bad language  which if used against decent families  honour killings are recommended,   but nothing  like that is going to happen in her case because  there us nobody to support her and fight for her, she herself also wouldn't  get annoyed because what she is today only such abusive  words could  suitably  decorate her, how she reached this position  is narrated in  her story  and the reader will agree she is  wrong doer

from previous...

....he decided to travel to Jerusalem before waking  sharu,  from the resident Jews in Berlin posh area ge had come to know that James Philip was to  arrive Jerusalem at four, he focused on Jerusalem and succeeded to  get Into  james philip  ,a place,  he was in a room speaking to someone on the phone,  his manner was of deliberately pleasing  who was on the line 

from previous...

....sharu was fast asleep,  if someone is beautiful  that person will look far more attractive  sleeping,  the ugly also appear even more  ugly,, he  had set the  things in the bags by then, in his o6he kept his daily wear  and some important documents,  all the rest was placed in sharu,s bag,

page 299...

....the wall clock  showed four whether daytime or nighttime  was  an old argument,  quickly freshened up and began checking the two bags, soon he and sharu were to  stay away from each other for a while,  he was not  happy at this decision but Jessica had given a sound suggestion as long as he didn't  ibd a suitable companion  sharu must stay elsewhere,  he could time travel  anywhere anytime  freely 

extract from chirag taley by mushtaq ahmed...

....he is not scared of  insignificant  physical  problems that get instantly cured by  swallowing  a pill or taking an injection,  in fact painkillers should be given not to the patients but to their visitors  who curiously  visit them to spend their own time,  if these visitors are stopped patients usually  recover faster 

page 297...

....braggers  live in a world of imagination  created by them, two  bragfers not one day,  one of them said he just returned from a country so hot where  hens gave boiled eggs, the other said he also recently returned from his trip to a freezing cold country where spoken words freeze in the air and are melted first to get the meaning out of them 

from previous...

....a poet beautifully  has expressed ..

..time has never passed and shall never pass  away 

.what passes away us life itself 

.so let's  make proper use of time passed by 

from previous...

....if we take a look at our  daily routine  day and night do we feel satisfied  is all so well and satisfactory,  don't  we spent  all time  eating drinking backbiting,  gossiping roaming aimlessly,   wasting away  uselessly and believing it  us something special and important, all this time  ticking off from moment to days weeks months years get   compiled into  collective  past

from previous...

....hazmat abadulla bin abbas  explained...give priority to five main points before  other five

.1.youth before old age 

.2.health before disease 

.3.self reliance before dependency 

.4. Leisure before occupation 

.5. Life before  death

page 287...

....the holy prophet  thus spoketh  ...on the judgment day  each mortal shall be  asked  four questions  unless they are correctly answered  he won't be allowed to  enter  the heavens, 

..1.hiw was the life spent 

..2.how was the knowledge he acquired  used

..,3.,how did he earn his living and how did he spend his  savings 

...4.how did he use his body

waqt...

....each and every  mortal must taste the taste of death,  there is no escape from death,  it is final and ultimate  truth,  those who love life must also remember death is bigger than life and life embraces death , life is pledged  to death given to mortals on lease for its value and it must be returned when the lease is up

from previous...

....sharp knocked at the door and the old woman asked without opening the door who was it, he said he was sharp investigating king krus murder case in which her name was mentioned,  she was georgia who was present when king kris was murdered,  the woman said she was lenny and not georgia, he argued why did she live for free in police officers house since the case was shut thirty years ago,  when she was not married 

from previous...

....eureka  he screamed enthusiastically,  sharp had found what he was googling,  he grabbed his dark glasses and walked up to his parked car and drove off,nothing could stop him not even the traffic jam, he reached his chosen destination and parked the car two doors away , he was when just thinking of getting out to knock at the designated  blue old door that must have looked attractive  thirty years ago an old woman reached the door , suspiciously looked around and quickly opened the locked door and slipped in

page 266...

....sharp found it not so easy to get himself involved in king kris murder case file reopened after thirty years, he looked at the postcard  of the hotel , on the back of the card information about the hotel was described like an advertisement,  one hundred fifteen rooms,  swimming pool,  restaurant  ball room and more and other facilities,  he turned towards his computer monitor and began a Google search 

from previous...

.... hot sweet carrot halwa is that all you can talk of in such a romantic night, raksha was ready with verbal attack to defend herself,  can't  Rohan talk of anything else besides food, he looked shocked,  how much he had missed eating home cooked food she didn't know,  he asked if Sunday was fine to invite Jawad,  ramsha, a turn to get a shock and who is Jawad,  he looked rather annoyed,  how quickly she forgot  his best friend jawad 

from previous....

....ramsha liking rohan,s presence and happy to be back and trained to avoid cooking goes to the terrace , the night was romantic,  she  spontaneously spoke out her heart  unwittingly looking at rohan still holding the coffee mugs expecting him to say she was more attractive than the night but  all he said was carrot halwa was perfect dish for such a night 

from previous...

....instead of  teaching ramsha how to cook she taught her lessons  to avoid such situations where she could be sent to the kitchen,  raksha returned to her Rohan, s house, it was eleven at night , she looked around for him he came out of the kitchen holding two steaming  hot coffee mugs, inviting her to have coffee on the terrace 

from previous...

....ramsha  told her mother what was wrong with her week old marriage,  her husband had when come to see her as his selected bride  they served green mung halwa and chapli kebabs saying ramsha cooks extremely well,  he relished the good food that was served and declared he will marry this girl for her  delicious culinary skills equal to his mother's,  raksha broke into loud tears to escape from cooking the dishes her husband  believed she could cook easily,  she returned to her ammi ,s home in rage scare and mixed feelings  of defeat  

from previous...

....sharon asked Dell who was now an old man to cooperate with him in krusty king murder case, it was reopening and Dell  was the chief detective in the case, dell was irritated,  sharp must read more newspapers to get information,  how could an old man like him remember in detail  every point , he then had two main suspects but there was not enough evidence to prove them guilty,  sharp doubted his intentions,  perhaps he didn't want to act against them and let them go and didn't  properly build a case  and so the case was not solved 

from previous...

....outside the hotel the wind blew hot , the intensity of the heatwave spread through out the hotel lobby, corner to corner  the  terrible heat was felt, yet  the hotel was buzzing with its regular  activity,  crowds were seen  mingling and mixing,  from the dining hall of the hotel  music playing loudly could be heard filling up the   hot atmosphere,  the man, s  feet tapped unintentionally to the music 

from previous...

....a man in  chocolate brown double breasted  suit stood by the hotel counter,   he wore colorful shirt and matching brown neck tie,   he held evening newspaper  in his hands,  he was reading some piece of information  engrossed  deep into it,  yet he was aware of what'll was happening around him, his curious eyes glanced at his surroundings keenly from behind the newspaper,  

page 263...

....revers said he  knew sharp  was a writer, sharp said king kris was in the hotel to perform, someone attacked georgua and to protect her king kris got killed, racers who was then present followed the killed, revers said if sharon knew all this why was he digging  buried stories,  it was because of revers sharp was taking  so much interest in this case and reopening it because what was it that revers was  removed from investigating this kris king murder case when he had seen the killer

from previous...

....rohan loudly called out for ramsha to come and watch him cook or how will she learn to cook to next time cook at home to feed him his favourite simple dish, he was deftly working on  the kitchen board, raksha was shocked,  all she could think of was the sky had fallen on her head, she didn't cook at home,  she didn't know how to cook any dish, she didn't know how to cook pan chicken or anything else 

from previous...

....she just said she couldn't cook pan chicken actua6she ought to have said she didn't know anything except makeup  decorating herself,  wearing new clothes, dressing up, shopping  and partying,  her innocent looks melted him and he smiled broadly , he said lets go then, she was relieved,  so after all they were going out to eat at the barbie  night, he said he will put on his apron,  apron..? what an apron!!!, that was not the  proper dress code to dine out at a restaurant,  rohan smiled and explained  he was not taking her out but he was entering the kitchen 

from previous...

....ramsha was married four days, she was still the new bride dressed up and decorated  in her bridal , her husband Rogan was also a dashing young man, life seemed enjoyable,  she planned to eat out at the barbie  nite, hanging her arms round his neck, he also lovingly said nit tonight because he wanted her to cook at home chicken  in the pan , the smile evaporated from her lips to  be replaced with genuine  fat tears in her eyes as she confessed she couldn't cook

from previous...

....ramsha showed her elder sister's  power over warisa  commanding her to  not speculate  what was  the matter troubling ramsha  but to bring ammi  because she wanted to speak to her, warisa tried her last time  to know what was it that ramsha within a week of her marriage returned home looking so emotionally uoset

from previous...

....warisa  giggling asked  if Rohan bhai was like her favourite serial  hero  in sasural ek jahennum..(in laws  are hell)  the prince charming who brings the new bride home to tell her he was not in love with her but loved someone else  and married her for the sake of the family,  she had to be obedient and servile and please  them all

from previous...

....warisa kept on asking  but ramsha was silent  statue  unmoving and not answering,  warisa  shook her  to her senses, rams, s  eyes rebelled and  a torrential  emotional  storm broke out,   her broken voice softly uttered a word ...deception 

..warisa asked for an elaboration was Rohan bhai like a hero of a movie already had a  secret first wife  tucked away

No, she shook her head 

from previous...

....rashma  asked warisa what was she asking she had not heard,  warisa rolling her  brown   eyes  said she said nothing but rashsma, s face sad expression said volumes,  reshma asked and what was her face saying,  warisa simply  declared  her face said everything she was trying to hide from them all

page 73...

Warisa looked at her elder sister  beautifully  decorated recently married and couldn't hold back her tongue and commented she looked quite put off ever since she arrived,   asking her elder sister who looked grim and engrossed in her deep thoughts  if all was fine with her,  warisa  climbed into her sister's cot to sit more warmly,  elder sister was startled  and turned to stare blankly at her three years younger to her warisa good looking and curly haired a student of inter

gazal...

....expression of love is not necessary 

....meeting  the beloved is also  helplessness 

....both are two  opposite shores in differences 

...staying together  also has lots of distances 

gazal ...

....if you count my sins I shall  affirm them

...or else how can I afford to confess them 

...let a feeling of  empathy  be born

....o lord  so that he would feel belonged 

....all who don't  trust his sincerity 

....he can't  wipe the dust minds clean

....don't ask the limits  of his faithful  love 

....

from previous...

....she would return home from school crying,  shumaila   had mixed feelings of sorrow fear and anger for the stalker boy who frightened her sonya, the only thing they could do was leave that colony and move away somewhere else  but where and how,  the mother tried to pay her daughter to comfort her

page 67...

....sonya was just fourteen  but looked bigger for her growth was wholesome,  she was an extraordinary beauty and attracted many a  dirty glances than admiration,  loafer boys waited for her in the corners of the street , they followed her singing  songs invitingly  and she had to be extra alert, one  crazy  boy became more passionately demanding and sent her messages,  shumaila  became nervous when the boy declared sonya is his and will marry him only or he will kill the groom 

from previous...

....she slept  peacefully  that night, even a small  house can prove  heavenly  if life partners are not abusive and trust each other,  in the morning  life presented a twist in fate,  abbas handed her an envelope asking her to open when he is left,  hus elder son had become a doctor in America,  and his daughter was getting married next week,  he was going to America to live with them,  shumaila gingerly slit the envelope  to find she was  just  divorced

from previous...

....she asked him lovingly if he was staying with her, he was , he needed to relax and rest, she  happily  declared she will cook something special,  he asked her not to cook anything  , they would eat out instead, she was pleasantly surprised,  they dined out, roamed around and returned  at one past mid night  she was extremely happy,  abbas now she felt was so warm and  sentimentally  close to her heart 

from previous...

....abbas got her a rented  one room set with some basic furniture  and it was  thankfully just for twelve hundred  he could afford,  it was enough for both mother daughter  , shumaila asked where was he going, he explained back home, shumaila had expected him to live with her , she was his legally married wife,  abbas also explained his home was from where  she had moved out to the rented home,  he had many haunts but his home was just one and only one  where he lived 

page 65...

....she  was hurt, abbas said she was merely a burden to him, he could not  afford to  buy or get a separate  accommodation for her,  she had to live with him in the same house  whether she liked it or not,  shumaila then decided she would  take up a job but is it easy to find a decent job,  she began looking for one after sonya went to school,  sonya returned at two  and shumaila couldn't leave her home alone,  she also couldn't  go to office  job that would keep her  occupied till late hours, finally she got a suitable job in a school 

from previous...

.... shumaila  explained to abbas he was her husband so sonya was his daughter  too, his daughter was his dignity and honor,  he must protect his women folk and stop these dirty men from entering their house again or,,...he asked threateningly what did she mean by her incomplete statement,  shumaila completed  her sentence  she would  call the police  for domestic violence and  abuse, abbas  pushed her hard against a drawer,  her head injury was bleeding as he left, she embraced her girl and both were nervous and scared

from previous...

.... shumaila created a scene and drew the attention of all present in the house,  abbas came and began accusing shumaila for being  an overdramatic person,  he  straight away  refused to  support sonya , she was not his child, if shumaila  wanted she could send sonya away to live with her maternal family,  shumaila was stunned into silence,  her sonya was in danger here

from previous...

....that day she had a headache and  sonya went to the kitchen to make tea for shumaila,  several men had come visiting abbas, talking love , women, wine and gambling,  suddenly shumaila heard a choked scream from the kitchen,  she ran towards the kitchen to find a lecherous man standing bear sonya who was quivering like a leaf, shumaila  blindly began beating  the man

from previous...

.....as sonya  was growing up her worries increased, different types of  men arrived home who looked at sonya with eyes  that disgusted her, their  disgusting  minds troubled her for her own sake and for her daughter's, she discussed the matter with abbas who made fun of her, after all sonya was not his own daughter 

from previous...

....the clerk  seeing the identity card waved him towards another man quite old sitting  bear the window,  ,  clad in bew brown suit hus white hair stood out, he held an old newspaper,, next to him was kept an old fashioned  hat,  he neared him and asked  if he was mr revers,  the old man  turning his eyes away from his newspaper looked at him and asked who was he, he introduced himself,  traver sharp from Los angels times,  he wanted him to cooperate  on king kris old case file he was researching on

from previous...

He didn't like the attitude of the clerk  , his manner of talking was not correct,  he ought not to  speak like  that to the customers, something in his training  was missing,  he was  behaving  big shot,  sharp was about to  comment  on his behavior but held his tongue  back tight,  he pulling out his identity card showed it to him instead 

from previous...

.... one passer by asked the men  pushing the stretcher whose  body was being taken towards the ambulance from the  red brick hotel,  not believing  it was king kris his favourite pop star, 

Tge hotel stood grand and majestic as always , the stormy winds  could  not harm it at all, perhaps  the time and world's  view had slightly affected it from outside  but it was still the first choice for the  foreign tourists 

page 361...

....the hotel built in red brick  had a sorrowful  feeling surrounding its walls ,  this red brick hotel was situated  in a corner  on the forty  second street at central Avenue,  not far from Los angels,  it was extremely windy street at that time,  , two men emerged from the hotel  with a  covered  dead body on a stretcher,  the uniformed men  walked past the crowds towards the  ambulance  waiting near the club near the hotel 

from previous...

....he entered the shop,  a man sat with his back towards  him working on a project,  as the man turned to look at him he was shocked,  this was the same face he had just sketched with a pencil onto his paper, he had seen a vision of this man being hanged on water but the man in the sketch had cruel ruthless  expression and this man with the same face  had a soft tone, gentle smile, kind expression,  sweating  from working  he pulled out a red kerchief from his pocket to wipe his face, greeting the visitor he stood up to  welcome him 

from previous...

....he  had been walking  for some time and must have walked five  or six miles unseeing,  only when someone asked what the time was and he mechanically answered ten to seven he realized  he had reached some unknown area , for the past one decade he had lived around yet never been  here before,  debating whether to go back or go home he saw a small shop that attracted his attention,  in the window were carved stones, he decided to find out what was the shop selling 

from previous...

....though all the doors and windows were wide open  yet some  kind of boredom prevailed,   what could be  the coolest thing around that would comfort him, , he began thinking and then thought of  the swimming pool in the near by park 

page 258...

....the topic of conversation was one morning thirty years ago,,it was a  faded listless morning,,he ate his breakfast at nine, he lit his cigar ..giving a glance at the newspaper,  he went to the garden to sit  there  perhaps some  old forgotten  thought might  crop up in his mind, and he would sketch it  with a pencil  into a portrauture

from previous...

....he can never  forget the date 20 August 1989 , that was thirty years ago when he was merely a twenty five year young man,  yet he could easily recall the strange day  vividly today in his old age, james clarence now fifty five,  his eye sight  dimming and unable to read his newspaper  besides this no other problem stops him from enjoying his life fully

from previous...

....there are some  traffic rules that can inspire others...

..if two cars crash into each other  it's always the cheaper car driver in the wrong

..between a lady driver and Male driver  its always the lady driver who is right

..the local native tongue speaking driver is always wrong  and English speaking is right

...the driver in uniform and branded clothes is always right 

from previous...

....a client  asking his property dealer if he was trying to sell him a house bear the railway tracks

..of course,  like he had said the house had transport facility available at its door step 

page 241...

....a wife complained to her husband he had promised before marriage he will keep on loving her after marriage as well, the man simply said he didn't know he will marry her

from previous...

....she conversationally asked the old man who else lived in the village house with Abbas, s mother, his response was an eye opener, abbas was already married,  his two sons were sent to be educated to another town,  his elder daughter was in the tenth and youngest was eight,  this revelation was hurting,  he was a father of four and always  said he was a bachelor 

from previous...

....she asked the old man asking for abbas  in , he was sent from the village  with homemade  things from Abbas, s mother,m they introduced themselves,  abbas had told his mother he was staying with friends m the old man described abbas had become rich in the city and rebuilt his village house near sargodha, bought lands and his mother did not wish to leave the  village house  and Abbas also did not want to bring her to live with him

from previous...

....the first two years passed by  , abbas spent these years touring mostly,  she got used to such a life,  both mother and daughter were each other, s support,   it was in the third year of her marriage,  that afternoon she had her meal and lay down to take some rest with Sonya when the call bell rang,  there was an old man asking for Abbas 

page 61...

....when the secret  became open secret his fears were removed,  abbas freely  got himself involved in his  activities,, he returned home roo late too frequently,, before his entry entered  smells of drunkenness, that was not all, his friends started visiting him,  but that didn't end there,  they spent time gambling and drinking,  she had to play a dutiful wife  and hostess,  the type of friends  abbas had  their eyes scared her, abbas disappeared for months in between,  she would breathe more lightly,  now she was aware of him being active in blackmarketing 

from previous...

...he freshened  up and returned to the room,  some time later  both azur and his father  returned,  they called him suleman solving his problem  of what bame he should be uuuuuu7,  the three of them sat down to eat, a voice from the next  room called out loud and clear  if muhabbet ali needed a hair  cut, leaving his half  eaten  breakfast he left, azir in his father's absence asked him if  his uncle  amir bakhsh had brought him from the village after his mother's death,  he silently nodded

from previous...

...air introduced himself saying  he was muhabbet ali, s son and extended his hand to shake his,  without a word he shook his hand and azir asked him to wash his hands  as azir will get him hot fresh halwa and  poori, baba had told azir  the guest had eaten nothing since last night,  azir stood up to leave so he also got up, right outside the room was a courtyard,  there was a tap ,  next to it was a bathroom and a  kitchen,  azir pointed towards the tap  and left

from previous...

...uncle amir bakhsh had promised him  he would come back  in three days but he arrived on the fifth night to see muhabbet ali, , he had  come to see him twice , once with his clothes in the night,,  apparently all the clothes were bew and recently bought readymade,  , all the time uncle stayed there he kept talking to muhabbet ali and his son who treated him like a special guest 

from previous...

...he felt  past event was repeating  itself, she was a popular celebrity, he was just an ordinary man,  friendship between them was not practical  nor possible,  she laughed out heartily extending her hand that he could not avoid but had to hold it  that she shook it with so much warmth and enthusiasm as he relapsed in his own reverie reasoning  why was it happening again 

page 239...

....so you speak balochi also  tahid asked him,  he explained in baloch  exactly like she  knew sindhi and he Turkish,  she smiled,  complimenting him on his interesting  entertaining  character and  good looks,  she could  be  friends with him,  her bold remarks reminded him again of  sanobar who too was rather so bold,  straight forward and  frank,  she spoke her heart out