page 244

....Shahid returned to his bedroom  to find dikky sitting  there with his bag open,  three types of eye drops  stood on the table before him,   labeled   morning  afternoon  and evening  respectively,  picking up the evening drops dikky  squeezed a few drops in his good eye  keeping the eye shut he spoke to Shahid  is uncle  feeling well 

Your unfair statement against  dada Jan  has  hurt my father   very much  explained Shahid  rather  dryly 

It is best for him to stay in bed  spoke dikky  strangely  though I wasn't aware  that abbu sold tge house which was dada Jan  s , I wrongly believed all this time  you all were  having a  wealthy lifestyle   spending  dada Jan  s money,  he opened his eye to put back tge eye drops in the bag

Why three types of different drops for the same eye  Poked Shahid,  is there some serious problem with you  and your eye 

The doctor also has the same opinion  he replied  uncaringly  that is why  three  different  drops were given me , 

Could you please explain what exactly happened to your other eye asked Shahid  cautiously 

page 231

....within next few days he gathered enough information on shamina , she had done her m bbs but was not practicing during her mbbs days she  was married to a Germany returned  wealthy man  who divorced  or rather sge did him , after khula  her ex husband  shifted to  Germany 

Faraz ali adored his daughter  always supported her emotional and financial needs  he was a man of rigid principles  , nobody could  go against his principles not even he himself 

One day nashad met sgammi and she erupted angrily,  her nose was quite broad and rage made it look even worse she attacked  nashad,  what was he doing and what the heck he thought of her she wasn't a fool,  she exactly knew who was he meeting 

Nashad  did his best to explain  it wasn't really what she was thinking  she was completely mistaken,  he was interested in shayri  , his family was interested in her , but he was only interested  in her poetry,  she was asking his opinion on her compositions that's all

charaghar

... nashad had shifted to Lahore from Karachi,  impressive  housing society  was his new residence of his own,  his house  was built in a  sprawling area,  fantastically  fully decorated interiors  , because the house had been  kept locked  fir over two years  it  needed  some repairs and  thorough cleaning up,  therefore  Nasha gad reached his house in Lahore five days earlier 

, his wife was supposed to come later with their  one  and half year old infant 

A plumber and carpenter were  working  in the house,  there was a beautiful  wooden  cabinet in the master bedroom,  it needed some  retouching  at its back , the gap had to be fixed so things won't fall down 

Nadim the carpenter  on nashad s orders  pushed aside the cabinet  away from the wall several  fallen things  were  found  on the floor 

A few children's books, a few pencils,  one ballpoint  a few visiting cards  and  several  small more items,  there was something more that astonished him , he sat motionless  staring at it 

from previous

... ear specialist  sat his patient  , the patient asked nervously  what was hus fees

Only two thousand 

Nine thousand  the nervous man asked to confirm 

The greed  suddenly  took over the specialist and he rudely replied  fifteen thousand 

The poor patient  nodded submissively

from previous

..one  time  mirza ghalib  received a huge selection of dastarkhwan from admirers,  the silverware were  massive in size but food was  barely enough 

, the poet wisely  stated the utensils  were a royal display of wealth  and food a miserable  poverty  stricken  leftovers 

page 223

...a young man appeared  at a military  office  to join the army   in Vietnam,  he was certain he will fail his medical eye check up , he was short sighted, the army officer  asked him to describe tge map  from ten feet away,  tge canditate  could nit see anything  , he was stood  near the map   a couple of feet from the chart yet he couldn't  find  the locations,  

He was passed  fit  for r hand to hand combat 

page 211

....his flat was as  disarranged as his  life,  he quickly  turned aside the bed mattress,  under it was some  change of coins   and amidst them some bullets   he quickly  filled up his pockets with  metalic  sounding  coins and  bullets  and picked up his revolver,  the weight  of the revolver  suggested it was fully loaded 

George was still in tge corridor  when he spotted danger , two men emerged   from the lift and leaped  towards George,  he in a fraction of a  second  decided what he must do,  he turned to run,  the two  men  screaming chasing after him 

George got inside his flat locked out the intruders  , at that very moment  tge locked door shuddered,  both men in their   wickedest  form fiercely had thrown themselves onto the locked door