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the father -in-law of the dead woman doubts Kader , who lives three houses away , that he could have been involved in the crime, whereas officer Malik makes him to talk, Baba jamal is a traditional khoji--an expert detective who knows his job well, he is like a magician who stares in the mud for foot prints leading from the crime scene to the house of kader khan , but from a different route , the route that taken by the dead woman from her house to the field is different from the owner of the footprints found , the owner of these according to baba jamal is a woman of heavy strong built who had wrestled as signs left- has apparently taken another route , the baba reaches kader"s home , and the junior officer assisting Malik reveals the identity of Kader"s wife that perfectly fits the description of culprit, heavy, huge, with big arms , legs , hands and feet, stout , strong

Baisakhi

Baisakhi is a murder mystery that revolves around the theme of having on e"s wishes fulfilled like in fairytales but still remaining hopeless, for the granted wishes serve no perpose at all, person stays habotually discontent, the narrator is an ivestigating officer, a potter finds a woman"s dead body from where he used to get mud by digging the earth, how he solves is yet to be seen,later

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If wounded- heart shall be pained

This infliction must yet be healed

From here some day I shall reach another abode

Somewhere for certain- to my future destination

Uncomplaining I am of your treachery

You must be ashamed but of me

Seasoned purity withstands all tests completely

Impurity absolutely is roughening

Noone lives forever in this life

It must bother you sometimes

How much strain can you take

If poked with sarcasm of hate

Not considered a beauty Mazhar

Though may be a rose bud she is stone hearted

Bagule

Tarab Ali calls up a meeting at home, every one is present, everyone wants to know why, tarab ali asks kashmala to remember clearly, recall the incidents that happened that day, when her husband had died drinking the poisoned milk , brought by her for tarab ali, she says she did not get it directly from the kitchen , not from the milk pan, but she was handed it by Nishat who had stopped her on her way to tarab ali:s room , nishat had asked her to carry it there, tarab ali tells his wife quietly to take away kashmala from the room , nishat becomes nervous, sin written all over her face, tarab ali says kashmala had never before brought him milk, it was the duty of nishat , or his wife or the servant, so kashmala was the victim he thinks aloud, the milk was meant actually for tarab ali, but he escaped having it

Avar Khaan

The sultan Ashman sat in his palace, he is informed the lady of Hungarian origin wants to see him, every one at the court including avar khaan, alao khaan the sons of the sultan and other male members of their clan waited for Doyana hungarian princess in hiding, she wanted to accompany the army on the move, as other ladies were going along with their husbands and soldier sons, the sultan tells her she was told before to mix and mingle with other people of her christian origin in and around the palaceso she could find a suitable match for herself, some young nasrani man to live her life with, she tells the sultan she already has decided to get married to a person of her liking who is not a christian, nor does he have a family nor any place to live, the sultan thought he knew who the young man might be--Abad Alrehman Ghazi--it was as she smiled her consent

Muqaddar Ka Sikander

The narrator is awefully upset at his life taking strange turns, he blames himself and his wife Zulekha and the man who made him read the tips and magic charms in english from a book in his possession from long, Pathhar baba-The Stone Teacher gave his medicine to all those who needed his treatment, the narrator was poor , wanting to change his life style , to better it he alng with Zulekha goes to the Teacher, knowing the narrator was well educated he was asked to read out few tips ranging from blood pressure, breathing problems, heart diseases to harness the inner self to make it do whatever the practitioner wanted him to do for him, narrator is advised to wear-- as the book text was in english , written by an englishman , never before read and understood by the teacher who spoke only urdu , to wear--new fresh under garments, shirt, sweater, coat, trousers, matching neck tie, hat , socks and shoes before calling his own name in a secluded field where noone could disturb him, narrator cant afford these things and it is for the culture that lives in the cold climate, but he had to follow the rules, his wife sells off her jewellery and buys him all, dressing up properly wearing a very expensive perfume that was mentioned for perfect result to capture his self he calls his own self in the field, successfully , the result is seen in the appearance of his mirror figure approaching him from nowhere in particular, who asks what he wanted, narrator before giving him any instruction decides to return to the teacher, when narrator moves, moves with him his captured self image, at the same speed, maintaining posture, , the police catches the narrator for speeding up that he was doing to get rid of his self--humzaad, but the clever self drives away while the narrator is caught, released later, beaten up, joints trembling he comes to his teacher who is surprised to know about his being successful at capturing his self so quickly which the teacher also had never been able to do, but then the teacher bangs his head saying it was not his image but Akhtar Hasin whom the teacher instructed as well to go to the same field to capture his self image, and it must have been him who had shown up on his calling, both the narrator and Akhtar hasin thinking the other to be his own mirror image

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Mah bano runs to the one room local village school opened up run by Sheheryar, who was there , who was demanding more rooms be added to the school as in summers tightly sitting groups suffocated , man bano introducing herself tells him quickly she was mah bano in desperate need of his help against the chaudhary, when at that point the door banged open noisily and enters Aftab teacher, he looks quite nervous, he says that chaudhary:s jeep is seen approaching them, suddenly both mah bano and sheheryar seem to get upset, there is no place to hide her, sheheryar had clearly heard her say before she needed help from him, now looking around they see he classroom devoid of all furniture, no corner , no cover, no store, no curtains, if she went out through the door she would have to confront the chaudhary, or wait in there for him to see her, the chaudhary must have heard the mosque announcement --the reason for his being there to meet sheheryar, what fate awaits her is --continued