Shikast-e-Khwaab

Dreams are easy to fulfil after that they are no longer dreams, Amie was a teenager newcomer to town where the narrator detective captain is posted as the new chief of police racket to keep an eye on street warfare, gangsters and local hooliganism, involving young men of the locality, in the inn amie is the only fresher , regular members of the inn get very protective towards her, she is not a listener , taking up a job at a shop she shifts to a boarding lodge, harry and his opponent both are rivals courting her, the chief and the priest are fatherly , soon ammie who had left her home family for she felt being ignored , deciding to get an independent identity turning everyone"s head was a dream soon fulfilled but there was no satisfaction following her achieved goal

Aseeb

M.A Raahat draws a comparitive study between metaphysical and physical worlds, shahaab meets tahira khanam a woman of socio-political nucleus, aggressively active, self proclaimed , self made, woman of quality and wisdom , her daughter saira invites him to lunch with her at a restaurant , he feels he must for time being play on, although he senses he is being roped up by the women , so he tells them he does not care for any other girls , specially the host"s daughters , tahira khanam sends in a man at the restaurant to get her packed meal , the man exactly fits the description of the man missing from his murdered father's house, eagerly returning home he honestly shares his new found information with the host, who calls a police officer friend, the culprit is nabbed , but soon found dead in custody, tahira khanam appears on the site creating a havoc scene

Aadat

Samir Abbas produces successfully an image of habit is neccessity to personal individuality , crugar as Randel is sailing on a ship, he is a professional killer , he has a certain peculiar habit that can identify him from others, his target is also on the ship whom he has to remove by arranging an accidental death, but seeing the man he is so surprised that such a useless unimportant person should be targetted , in his third grade cabin randel hides his pistol under a sink knowing well enough that in his absence his cabin would be searched by the meanial staff, on deck he plans various methods of getting rid of his target, but randel finds himself being the easy target of serialwise accidents

Laddo

beatiful yet simple definition by Nawaz Khan -Trust is love, trust broken is hatred, ironically both leading causes to commit a crime, when he was posted in sialkot , it was a beautiful cool day after rain, the wheat fields were gently swaying standing crop, instead of regular horse back ride he chose to walk past the fields, where he met jamal in a terrible state , Laddo challnged him if he was so sypathatic he should help the dying man , and duty conscious, highly urged by his sharp senses and conscience nawaz khan carried him to local doctor , then to other places till lahore where godsent help a western doctor gave him treatment till jamal was able to share with the narrator his tale of woe

Bagule

M . A. Raahat carries forward his view point everyone wants to share his life with a trusted companion, like shehenshah khan with shermin, no need to explain to one who believes you for he would understand you, no need to explain to unbeliver who would never understand you, but his past experience starting from when he along with another prisoner escapes , he changes his appearance, travelling by bus not knowing exactly where he was going, what his destination is , is apprehanded at a restaurant by special police men carrying his picture in pockets as issued to catch him, he pretends he is not hamaad but saif, a petty shopkeeper , in the police jeep he attacks them again managing to flee, reaching a particular building he digs out a file he had hid there, he meets his old friend, sharing becomes easier when your companion is also your soulmate, both friends get away to have early tea and breakfast at a hutment with a hot mud earthen oven readying something for the millworkers expected shortly , hamaad meets a poorly elderly man looking at the tandoor for food , he is invited to join in, getting a blessing from him --may he once get what he wants in life--the restaurant helper wants to ensure his own position by asking them to show money, for the three men have almost cleaned up all the dishes served to them, distrust is not uncommon in ordinary man because life is totally dependable on breathing , life is unpredictable, life is cut short, life is unbelieveable, life is mortal, life is hard

Tasvir-e-ghumaan

Cinematic dramatised beautifully flowing language describing scenes evoking suspense and engrossing the reader to go on till he finishes the whole complete story by manzar imam, Farhad is a news reporter who begins to see illusion, his friends think he is hallucinating, farhad likes visiting his spiritual teacher at his camp where he happens to meet one after another situations leading to a murder of a girl , anwar is the closest man attendant to the teacher , the vision farhad sees so often disppearing tells him to find the facts there in the camp, but farhad is abducted by three men wanting to know from him what he had found out, as farhad is born intelligent and wise in the teacher's view he calculates who is behind the scenes , the mastermind evil mind, and is able to solve the case with his team"s hard work

Naqab Zeni

Dilawar was a young office goer, there he starts liking his boss"s private secretary Alyah, the office lift is only for the use of the building staff, quite rickety old noisy and ungreased, sometimes when it is out of function everyone including him and alya have to take the stairs up and down, wanting desparately to attract her he plans to become rich quick, his salary is not sufficient even for him, he has no other skills or talent to fund his scemes of attracting the young beauty, so he plans to break in three selected houses in his area, the story is rather hilarious, drama filled, suspense short with an unexpected end