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... it was the first time ever in his professional life  that  his aim failed  had to hit the target, it was definitely not his fault, not his mistake  , it was good fortune of the target and considerable misfortune of his own  the trigger was squeezed here and the target bent with a sneeze   there. as a result the bullet was released  certainly accurately towards the target but the target remained absolutely unharmed and the bullet hit someone else

He was a sharp shooter, sniper  , professional killer  paid to eliminate anyone at a certain  ammount, he was perched on a  under construction site for past half hour aiming his sniper scope that had basically two functions to perform first to frame the target and second to  pin point the target, , today his simple task was to shoot a high profile politician down

mazlum

..dear tanya someone has come, open the door, tanya was sunk deep in her pile of books her head lowered when she heard her ammi s voice 

Ammi please you open the door yourself i am studying  

Dear  daughter the stew will burn  otherwise i never disturb you while you study, meanwhile another knock on the door was heard, this time it was louder and stronger, as if the arrival  had totally lost his patience

Tanya wrapped her chaader around herself completely before dragging her feet into her slippers towards the door

She was a student  of b a  , her exams were close , college had freed them to prepare from home , she was seriously  studying day and night at home, she was good in all subjects except english which was  testing her comprehension

Education   from government  schools had left her weak in english,  besides  graduation level englush was quite   high in srandard  , it could kill anyone , she needed professional help a private tution at home preferably but family s financial condition did not allow it

zaroorat

..the scottish people are notorious for  being misers

 During a church service the donation pkate was circulated, the scot  placed one pound   , the priest was surprised and exclaimed one soul was saved from going to hell

The scot put one more pound on the  plate and asked if now two souls were saved from going to hell

The father confirmed   it was exactly so

The scot  explained there was no  need of the pounds on the plate any more and  picked up the pounds and  slipoed them into his own pocket

ishq natamaam

...he was the chieftain of his tribe , shamsher khan  was still energetic at seventy plus , he had been the head of his tribe since his father  died thirty years ago and the burden shifted onto his shoulders, 

It was his bad luck   at seventy one  life  suddenly presented him a turning point, he went out hunting accompnied with his security and surrounded with his staff , he spotted a  deer and  shot him  down but the wounded deer attempted to escape by   jumping   out of sight, the tribal chieftain  predatorially  chased the  escaping prey and slipoed from the slope crashing down  thirty feet below , he was alive but his back was badly broken, he since   was bedridden

pardes

 she banged her both hands on the dholak with excited energy and rani s dholak started officially for the function, her lovely melidious  voice filled the whole  area full of women , it was a massive open yard  that  comfortably accommodated entire village , all the chairs were arranged  in the back  outlining the  gathering  , the rooms were emptied, qamar was  snooping around with his group of boys  trying to have fun , bamboo cots and bamboo handmade stools were arranged towards the womens section , all the aged and elderly  occupied them , all the teenage girls and other younger women settled down around the dholaki beat to enjoy the show , it was the first opening scene  of the dholak beat kept  fifteen days ahead of the  wedding  it was a tradion  followed for genrations

Folk gidda  also started from this  dholak opening beat, older women folk  started the dancing  ,  then gidda started  and one by one younger girls joined the elderly  women  on invites , dragging laughing teasing  others to join in speaking singing  tumbling over each other falling  over each other  enigmatically brightening the wedding house , girls are birds , chirpy and sweet adding so much  meaningfulness to life itself , girls are birds  who decorate homes and surroundings  before flying away, bari barsi begins with the first dholak beat   double meaning funny  songs are sung and every profession  is presented in a twisted distortion of memes 

page 57

...amma ji,  please take your nedicine, salma heloed her mother in law to sit up and swallow her medicines, amma ji was unable to get up for four days , on shammo s  engagement day amma ji had overeaten and got indigestion now it was troubling her, it was impossible for her to swallow anything , her burning ulcer was  making her miserable , all the heavily oily fried  greasy foods had activated her inner  illnesses , amma ji could not even take a step without someone s support, it was  her old age related weakness and  deteriorating health  problems issue  but even nimmo and shammo were  no better

It was an occassion of happiness , both had completely ignored bhabhi and with all their hands  stuffed themselves with the  delicious feast, both had reached their ends , unable to breathe , , they  were diagnosed cholera, anwar had taken them to the dispensary and that is completely a different story

Thankfully the lady doctor was still present at night at ten , who immediately   took action and emergency treatment started on them with  putting them on drip, amma ji was given medicines with follow ups and several more prescriptions, when nimmo and shammo  s condition slightly improved  amma ji   gave them a generous verbal thrashing

page 180

...it was a courtroom scene , aniq ahmed stood  in the witness box , he was accused  of killing his elder brother, aniq was a necganucal engineer  just returned from quwait

 His lawyer mirza beg  opened his argument  in favour  and defence of hus client anuq that he was not a criminal, that anuq was a decent law abiding  citizen   who lead a peaceful life , it was a conspiracy against him , his eldef brither was murdered and anuq was   falsely accused  

The  prosecutor   looking at the judge  sarcastically  cut in that his friend and colleague had used  terms   decent citizen and false charges , he must explain  from  which country  has his client come and  is he a national of this country, what is the basis of  this case being false  and a conspiracy

The defendant  priceeded to explain  his client   was  deliberately brought here  , there is no witness , murder is not an easy casual  thing to do specially of your loved ones ,  there is no motive  ,  and he will prove it in the future proceedings