Aseeb

Aseeb by M A Rahat opens in baharin on Shahaab whose father originally a pakistani has settled down with his wife from ethnic raised in london , shahaab are three siblings, his father a general manager in groundnut and olive oil industry used to narrate about his native land to shahaab, who is now a grown up young man, the father though never allows his family to go back to pakistan , himself makes visits for he has a property dispute , every visit lasted just two weeks or so, but this time its over two and half months since the father is missing, shahab reaches his never seen before land to meet his relatives to help him find his father, strange happenings greet him in his disputed property

Teen Butta Aik

a story of jealousy motivated crime written by Safdar Hayaat malik gives a real life account of a young woman married to a senior who had two young sons of his from first wife, the young woman schemes to get rid off all of them one by one to secure her own position along with her three year old son"s , but as luck would have it the investigator is the writer who logically and with his expertise very systematically solves the murder case of rayaz and fayaz who were found dead on their beds outside the house, just this made him suspicious, how , ..is a most interesting and gripping read

Waapsi

Waapsi by Samar Abbas is a story in first person narrative of shah zeb, who is killed , he experiences out of body perception, a second chance is given him to return to life to solve his case, he makes a list of who could have been the one to attack him, his two wives or son or daughter or his business partner, its refreshingly food for for thought, finally he again is ready to return to his ;ast abode

--from previous--

Akbar remembers how he had become a waiter in a hotel, from where he got a chance to act in films, four years were wasted thus, one day unable to reach his place of work on monthly salary base , he was sure he is no longer on the pay roll , he saw a car girl being forcibly abducted, the driver was missing, may be he was involved with the culprits, akbar helps reach the girl to her home, the father of the girl is a powerful man, and helps the young man like him who can be trusted with a responsible work get a- on -the- job - training with good decent money in khurshid jewellery emporium

Duniya Gol Hai

A beautifully descriptive story very well written by Ahmed Iqbal is a view of life from the point of view of a traveller who ends up from where he began, life seems to be going forward just by it self, spending , destroying every one else , though the protagnist - Akbar- is released from jail after fourteen years , he sees his father"s jewellery emporium turned fromjhurshid to new patiala emporium, he passes by like a mute spectator, he is thrown out from the but as he forgets to get up in time to get down at his stop, the villages have become cities, he from a twenty five year old young dashing man has changed into an elderly man of forty, ageing signs appear silently on his long beard, the word picture of life and situations, circumstances are accurately vibrant

--from previous--

Sarmad gets to see a notice with a picture of mahbano with a cell number underneath announcing a reward of one lakh to whoever informs about her whereabouts, he contacts them , reaches amir's house to find the nearby house wall had collapsed destroying amir's house , from the debris were pulled out two bodies understandbly those of amir"s mother and of the young relative --mahbano, for sarmad its a shocking news, he feels the reward clutched tightly in his hands slipping off

Gardaab

Mahbano sees it is the driver of the murdered motiwala who has helped her to escape from the house, she knows the killers are in search of her, they have temporarily been lured by the greed , so giving her just enough time to run away, she is put up at amir"s-- a friend of the driver--place, she is thiere as a relative of the driver, she tells both of them about sheheryar being her contact