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....both sisters shamima and nasima were married into the same family,  with time tgeir affection for each other grew even more,  shamina had two sons naved and farid nasima bore two girls zehra and zainab, a son Salim,  both sisters lovingly watched their children grow up and fondly   betrothed  them  making their own relationship  stronger , naved and zebra were extremely happy with their  engagement but farid was  in love with his class fellow  fakhra  so he simply refused to  accept his elders  decision,  naved and zebra were married 

After marriage  zehrra tried to persuade  farid but he wouldn't,  zainab liked  farid very much,  when  farid refused to comply zainab commited suicide,  more deaths followed  shamina  experienced life was cruel to her, she was  left all alone to live , life was tossing her around,  life wasn't behaving as she had expected,  with time  fakhra won over her mother in law  s respect but zehrra  didn't melt,  zainab dead farid was married to his choice , zehra started hating  fajhra for her goodness,  she even hated her children,  zehra became a mother ten years after her marriage  meantime  fakhra had  had three of hers,