Ishq Ka Sheen / عشق کا شین


Aleem Ul Haq Haqqi - 2014
    It took author more than 13 years to write and goes on. Six parts have been published so far and seventh is on the way... Its has been published daily on website www.ummat.com.pkAleem Ul Haq Haqqi is also a Poet with takhalas (name) Shaam

Aik Mohabbat Sau Afsanay / ایک محبت سو افسافے


Ashfaq Ahmed - 1998
    Ashfaq Ahmed is a consummate master of words.

Qaisar o Kisra / قیصر و کسریٰ


Naseem Hijazi - 1926
    It follows Asim, a young Arab, who leaves his homeland to escape the barbarism there in search for peace and finds himself caught between a bloody war between two great powers of the world.

Sifaalgar / سفال گر


Bushra Saeed - 2012
    Sifaalgar is a story about different Human from different regions.Bushra Saeed very beautifully focused on the characterization.The main theme of this novel revolves around one of the elements of life SIFAAL(In urdu) means Soil.Soil is one of the most important element in the human life.It is one of the basic elements present in Human,Life,Earth and everywhere.Sifaalgar is a story of all the ups and downs that are embedded in Human Psychology,Faith and beliefs due to social,cultural or religious pressure.She depicted the society as a Kumhaar(in urdu) means Potter.This potter is present in different forms,different relation in form of a mother,father,teacher,friend,leader...Sifaalgar is a story of characters belonging to 2 different eras.Both eras are entirely different and Bushra Saeed depicted the plot,the characterization,the scene depiction so wonderfully that one can hardly find any flaw in it.Main Protagonists of Sifaalgar includes Ibraheem,Ahmed(Grant),Parniyaan,Alba Marsello,Umar,Sofia and Hakeem Begum all belongs to different eras have got different priorities about life but they are knitted so wonderfully that one cannot leave the book unread.In short Sifaalgar is a book which actually reduced my thirst for reading a fine piece of Literature after a very very long time.

Haalim Part 2


Nemrah Ahmed - 2019
    It’s a long novel with episodes and each episode will have a separate title.Its the most different and unique thing I have ever written, or has ever been written in Khawateen Digest."Nemrah Ahmed

Nadaar Log / نادار لوگ


Abdullah Hussein - 1996
    The story of this novel takes place during 1897 to 1974. This is the story of a generation that has no urge to protect and fight for its rights, people who have accepted everything as fate and have left themselves to the flow of time. The story really gets a takeoff after 1947 when Pakistan gets independence and the people who fought for certain ideals are pushed to wall by those who happen to be in corridors of power. The novel describes those years of indifference, difficulties and turbulence which first germinate the seeds of undemocratic governments and then it leads to secession of the country in 1971. The novel suggests that this was the period where if truth was upheld the history and the geography of Pakistan would have been different but since people kept silence which tantamount to a sin, so they have to reap the wages of this in shape of disintegrating the federation and losing their brothers. Nadar Loog is the story of a people who had great ideals but were found wanting in action when it mattered to stand and assert. This is the story about poverty of action and deeds that leads a nation and people to a state of flux.

Bin Roye Ansoo / بن روئے آنسو


Farhat Ishtiaq
    Its a simple love story in written in a simple manner but with a touch of class and novelty. Farhat Ishtiaq has always expressed human feelings and emotions in her stories. This novel Bin Roye Ansu is not exception and she wonderfully expressed the feelings of Saba Shafiq, the lead character of the novel. The feelings of Saba Shafiq are so strongly expressed that readers will feel the same emotions of love, happiness and sorrow with each and every step of the novel characters.

Fasana e Ajaib / فسانہ عجائب


Mirza Rajab Ali Baig Suroor - 1867
    This is kind of literature which is the link between dastaan and novel. It was written almost 175 years ago but still found attractive and appreciated by critics. Although the language used is obsolete even then reader can find it interesting. There is brief vocabulary given at the end to help reader understand some old terms. Fasan e Ajaib had great influence on other books of its era and writers of that time tried to wrote books in its style. It was originally written in 1824 but published after 19 years in 1843 from Matba e Khusni Lakhnau.

Yaaram / يارم


Sumaira Hameed - 2014
    There she meets Aliyan, a British Muslim who is the center of everybody's attention. Both are broken souls, bearers of terrible burdens but when they meet, their fates are forever intertwined.It was first published in Shuaa Digest: July 2014-March 2015.

Raja Gidh / راجه گدھ


Bano Qudsia - 1981
    Gidh is the Urdu word for a vulture and Raja is a Hindi synonym for king. The name anticipates the kingdom of vultures. In fact, parallel to the main plot of the novel, an allegorical story of such a kingdom is narrated. The metaphor of the vulture as an animal feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals is employed to portray the trespassing of ethical limits imposed by the society or by the religion.Bano Qudsia has written this novel drawing on the religious concept of Haraam and Halaal. Many readers tend to interpret Raja Gidh as a sermon, in which Bano Qudsia puts forth her theory of hereditary transmission of Haraam genes. Naturally the plot is woven to support the thesis. In the opinion of many readers and critics she manages to convince them that the pursuance of Haraam, be it financial, moral or emotional, results in the deterioration of a person's normality in some sense. She seems to suggest that the abnormality is transferred genetically to the next generation.Apart from the above implication the novel has many social, emotional and psychological aspects. The nostalgic narration of the historical Government College Lahore and of the Lawrence Garden Lahore lights upon the days of seventies and eighties.Bano Qudsia is among those Urdu writers who would think ten times before writing a sentence. But she does not sacrifice the flow of the narrative anywhere in this novel. Her characters are not black and white ones as some of the critics would like to suggest. Every sensitive reader who has attended a college or a university in a Pakistani setting is bound to find some similarities between themselves and one of the characters.Plot: Seemin Shah, hailing from an upper middle class family, falls in love with her handsome class fellow Aftab in the MA Sociology class at Government College Lahore. Seemin is a modern and attractive urban girl and attracts most of her male class fellows, including the narrator (abdul)Qayyum and the young liberal professor Suhail. Aftab belongs to a Kashmiri business family. Though he also loves her, he can not rise above his family values and succumbs to his parent's pressure to marry someone against his wishes and leave for London to look after his family business. Now the long story of separation begins.

Zero Point / زیرو پوائنٹ


Javed Chaudhry - 2012
    Good tool for intellectual grooming.

Naqsh e Faryadi / نقش فریادی


Faiz Ahmad Faiz - 1943
    It contains his earliest poems - in nazm, ghazal and qita form - that set him on course to becoming the greatest and most-read Urdu poet of the 20th century.

Dil Darya Samandar / دل دریا سمندر


Wasif Ali Wasif - 1998
    Powerful, moving, poignant - this is a soft book with great depths to it.

Dastan-e-Amir Hamza Collection / داستان امیر حمزہ سیریز


Maqbool Jahangir
    

Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa: Iqbal's Dialogue with Allah


Muhammad Iqbal - 1991
    Shikwa (1909) and Jawab-i-Shikwa (1913) extol the legacy of Islam and its civilising role in history, bemoan the fate of Muslims everywhere, and squarely confront the dilemmas of Islam in modern times. Shikwa is thus, in the form of a complaint to Allah for having let down the Muslims and Jawab-i-Shikwa is Allah's reply to the poet's complaint.