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In a narrow lane in old Lahore, a postman named Rahim Baksh receives a letter he cannot bring himself to deliver. It is addressed to a mother who has waited four years for news of her only son. Instead of handing her the truth, Rahim picks up a pen...

When Mehr flies home to Lahore for her grandmother's funeral, she expects grief. She doesn't expect the doorbell to ring on the third day, or the steel tiffin carrier waiting outside, tied with a faded red cloth.Inside is her grandmother's famous...

"If you succeed in deceiving someone, do not think that he is a fool. Instead, realize how much he trusted you." — Imam AliKamran is a professional liar with three unbreakable rules. The third one is: never eat their food.Hired to trick an old widow...

Lucknow, 1934. Every evening beneath an old peepal tree, Ustad Nazir Ahmed, the last dastango of the city, tells tales of kings, tricksters and sorcerers, and thousands of listeners forget the world.But his young daughter Noor has a cough that will...

Twenty-three kilos. That is all the airline allows.Naseem Akhtar, seventy-one, a retired teacher from Lahore, must choose what to carry to a new life in Manchester: her late husband's cardigan, her mother's battered brass lota, or the cassette tapes...

Amna Siddiqui is tired of being strong.For a year she has risen before Fajr to ask Allah for a little ease. Her father is gone, her mother is slipping away into forgetfulness, her brother has fallen silent, and the family's old printing press is about...

بارہ برس پہلے ایک سولہ سال کے لڑکے نے اپنے باپ کی آخری نشانی بیچ دی، تاکہ اس کا بڑا بھائی دبئی جا سکے۔ اس نے ماں سے قسم لی کہ بھائی کو کبھی نہ بتانا۔آج ماں دنیا میں نہیں رہی۔ دبئی سے بڑا بیٹا، کراچی سے بیٹی، اور ملتان کے پرانے مکان میں رہنے والا چھوٹا...

لاہور کا ریٹائرڈ ڈاکیا رشید احمد اپنی پرانی وردی کی جیبیں ٹٹولتا ہے، اور اندر سے ایک پیلا پڑ چکا لفافہ نکلتا ہے۔ اس پر ایک نام لکھا ہے: مس لیلیٰ آیدن، استنبول۔یہ خط سینتیس برس پہلے ایک نوجوان نے اسے دیا تھا۔ رشید نے وعدہ کیا تھا کہ یہ آج ہی جائے گا۔...