Manzoor Kazim Hussainabadi

The people of the village were very beautiful as their deeds were never ugly. And it is said that handsome is he who does handsome work. The villagers would not lock their doors neither they would ever collect the working tools from their field in the evening if they were to work in the same field the next day. The villagers were so peaceful, religious and trustworthy that locking their store doors at night was not a custom and there prevailed a strong bound of social trust among the people. They would leave their tools like spades, shovels, wheelbarrows etc., in the fields and no one would even touch them. They would leave their stores unlocked to find the things safe, the next morning. One day, in Hltanmosa, a strange thing happened to Apo Trangpa, an innocent man of the village. When he reached with the dawn in his field of wheat, he did not find his newly brought spade which he had himself left in the field the previous evening so as to resume his work in the field as soon as he ...

It is a common surveillance that more often than not, the least expected things happen on the globe and affect people either optimistically or pessimistically. If we glance back into the historical events for the course of a decade, we hit upon occurrences that caused bewilderment to the world which were not even thought of before. For instance, the attack on the world trade center altered the world political scenario in a flash, and gave birth to the thought in the psyche of the West that the ‘Muslims are terrorists’. Tsunami swept away the lives of thousands of people, in a few seconds and left the world lamenting for its helplessness in the hands of God. The recent Iran – American conformity on removing the sanctions once imposed on Iran left the world in a state of mammoth astonishment. The earthquake of 2005 almost turned the mountainous areas of the country especially, “Bagh” and other adjacent regions inside out. The terrorists assailed on Peshawar school and seized the lives of...

Salem, a kind hearted king of an ancient empire, had a son eminent for his wisdom, piety and strength. The Prince was idealized in the whole region and kings and queens of the adjoining countries desired him to be married with their daughters. When the Prince turned twenty-five, the ideal age to be married for a bachelor in that country, the king asked him to look for a life partner. Though, the king wanted his son to be wedded with the daughter of Shams Uddin, another king of the neighboring country and a friend of him yet he wanted not to impose his own pronouncement on his son. To the astonishment of the king, one day the Prince said, “Father! I have a question to find out the best life partner for me, and whoever gives a satisfactory answer will be selected as your daughter-in-law.” The king, at first was really astounded to listen his son’s strange way to select a wife but soon approved his demand as he had confidence in the wisdom of his son. So, soon the condition kept by th...

Knowing not what to do after its creation, the mosquito directly flew to a human being with the intention of sucking some blood for its survival. It was kept in its instinct to suck human blood, and that’s how it goes. But, while hovering around the body in search of a better place to settle, the first thing, it ever saw on the human body, was the human ear.  The mosquito was so fascinated by the sight of such a beautiful thing that it forgot its mission and directly fell in love with the ear. It was a kind of love at first sight. In other words, it was one sided love of the mosquito. It was so attracted by the beauty of the ear that it couldn’t help flying near it to express its heart felt feelings for the ear. At first, it hesitated a bit and then reminding itself ‘now or never’ mustered up all its courage and dared proposing the ear. When the ear heard what the mosquito said, it couldn’t believe its own ears and when it lent ears to what mosquito was saying, the ear got really f...