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... it s during one of those days  when they were planning to send tipu  in a welfare organization,  tehrim then got a matrimonial proposal  from a  distant village chaudhary,  he was  a rich man,  he was  also politically active and once  become the  m l a, he had  married off his  young  sons,  wife was illiterate  and  ordinary looking,  

Someone  put in his ears the name of  the daughter of chaudhary shaukat that she was beautiful young and well educated,  so the Nika was quickly arranged,  rukhsati wasn't done and the groom who was  abroad  perhaps had a romantic angle there  gave a divorce and walked away 

Tehrim   kept hearing such  arguments around  but she wasn't  involved directly,  Khazar and harun were quite happy with the alliance  because they saw how beneficial it was  for them,  harun believed abba ji would  get a ticket for him,  Khazar  was elder and hoped for favors from abba ji above  harun but the decision lay entirely on who was selected by sayyad chaudhary  for  elections in pind basa , there  were  several  contenders  besides them more ambitious and promising 

That evening  all sat having tea  in the  yard  tehrim was seen  lost and silent  staring at her tea cup  this made chaudhary  shaukat  miserable,  he asked her what happened  dear child patting her head, she  then  startled  came back to her senses,  she shook her head,  it wasn't anything at all 

Khazar and harun exchanged glances