Every line below lives inside a real book by a Pakistani author. Read the quote, meet the book — and take the story home.
“When she laughed, the world would laugh with her and when she wept; the whole world would want to comfort her.”

“Present- a profound moment experienced here and now but by reliving the past and by accepting that yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.”

“How could he get him to understand that he wished nothing more than to wipe the whole thing from his memory but the nightmares refused to leave him alone?”

“Even though my mother has a heart lined with marshmallows for me, she never refuses anything that I say.”

“Sameer always felt that she was overfilled with her thoughts and wanted to pour her heart out but her dumbness placed a permanent obstacle in the way; “what a life of hindrance…” thought Sameer.”

““We can’t always protect the ones we love,” Ansa gazed off into the distance lost in her own thoughts.”

“Even the walls looked bored and the courage inside me collapsed till the last word inside my mouth shattered and I choked.”

“Adnan learned that to earn the clients' confidence and to keep them happy is imperative even if you cannot deliver the work on time.”

“” Joked the Director who stood in front of a giant painting, “Come,” he took a sip of water from a glass, “I want you to meet someone special!”

“Candy looked elegant in it and as she walked down to the limo, his attention was on the smile she wore than the dress she had on.”

“The rest is upon God, if he wills then only will our efforts and good hearts be succeeded in bringing a change, because individuality aside, we are stronger together.”

“From quite a while, I have been trying to figure out one perception of love that explains it all yet all I’ve come to is its ashes, scattered & dispersed, let alone the whole fiery universe of it.”

“When they both entered the hall together, many eyes lift up looking at the beautiful pair that had just arrived, some looked with envy and some with admiration.”
“Therefore, as far as to acknowledge it, I would like to acknowledge my friend, Syed Soban Khalid who took time out of his non-busy life and gave my novelette its first read and hence suggested and edited it.”

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یہ کتاب ڈاکٹر رشید احمد شادؔ کی زندگی اور اس سے وابستہ یادوں کے ساتھ ساتھ ان کے قلمی سرمائے کی امین ہے۔اِس کتاب کا پہلا حصہ ڈاکٹر رشید احمد شادؔ کی بچپن کی یادوں، ہجرت کے سفر اور اُس کے دکھوں کی داستان کو پیش کرتا ہے۔ اِس میں اُن کی ملازمت اور اعلیٰ تعیم کا ذکر بھی موجود ہے اور ازواجی زندگی بھی تحریر ہے۔ عزیز رشتے، ان سے وابستہ جذبات و احساسات اور انمول یادوں کا خزانہ بھی یہ کتاب خود میں سموئے رکھتی ہے۔ڈاکٹر رشید احمد شادؔ کا اندازِ تحریر سادہ، دل چسپ اور رواں ہے۔ وہ سادگی سے خود سے وابستہ لوگوں کا ذکر کرتے ہیں اور اپنے جذبات و احساسات بھی لکھتے نظر آتے ہیں۔اس کتاب کا اگلا حصہ شاعری پر مشتمل ہ
Explore Sana Ahmed Alvi’s writing journey, inspirations, and the mystery behind The Night She Drowned in this engaging author interview.
ہر کتاب کا ایک خانہ ادھورا ہوتا ہے اور اس ادھورے کونے کو قاری اپنے تصور کے رنگوں سے بھر دیتا ہے۔ بہت سی باتیں ان کہی رہ جاتی ہیں مگر سننے والا ان ان کہے الفاظ کا بھی مفہوم اخذ کرلیتا ہے اور اسی طرح بہت سی کہانیاں نامکمل ہوتی ہیں مگر دیکھنے والے کی نگاہ اسے مکمل کر دیتی ہے۔یہ کتاب ناتمام قصوں اور کہانیاں کا گھر ہے اور انھیں مکمل کرنے کا اختیار قاری کا تصور محفوظ رکھتا ہے۔
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مصنفہ نے ان افسانوں میں مختلف موضوعات کو چھیڑا ہے اور سچ پوچھیں تو یہ کتاب ایک خوش رنگ گلدستے کی مانند ہے جس میں طرح طرح کے رنگ دیکھنے کو ملیں گے۔ان کی ہر کہانی کا طرز تحریر مختلف ہے تاکہ قاری ایک ہی طرح کی کہانیاں پڑھ کر اُکتا نہ جائے۔
Love Recycled is a romance novel that follows Ali as he navigates his way through university and then adulthood. It portrays love in all honesty and with all its facets.
سلمان کا شعری اسلوب بےحد رواں اور منفرد ہے۔ اس کتاب میں ان کی یہی خوبی نمایاں ہے۔ انھوں نے بہت سے موضوعات پر قلم اٹھایا ہے اور ان کے ہر شعر میں شاعری سے محبت جھلکتی ہے۔یہی نہیں بلکہ وہ کمال کی منظرنگاری پیش کرنے کا بھی ہنر جانتے ہیں
Daastan, founded on the very notion of being able to tell your stories by putting one's word out there in the world as a whole, becoming a part of this universe; materializes its principles through the journey of thousands of authors we have published. One such journey is that of Mahnoor Kareem, a teenager from Rawalpindi who grew up aspiring to be an exceptional author and chose to become one of them. From finishing a book in a single day to becoming the author of one, she is a treasured Daastan-published author. In an interview, she revealed that her father used to write short stories for so