Thursday, July 15, 2010

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