Every line below lives inside a real book by a Pakistani author. Read the quote, meet the book — and take the story home.
“A heart, bruised and battered, bleeding all over her soul staining it perhaps permanently; was it a lost cause?”

“The Khawaja Siras, in due time, offered him the shelter he longed for after the death of his father.”

“As the sun disappeared below the horizon and the birds chirped whilst making their way home, she smiled at me, one last time and this time, I returned the smile.”

“My life had been a musical but now it felt as if there was a narrator that read my life out loud and changed its course at its whims.”

“However, now he is stepping into the digital media industry, he has to change his rules and make new ones – or better yet, go with the flow – a concept he never followed, but now he has to.”

“My brain will always see beyond the average, I walk the world with her perspective of the world and the sky and call of the mountains, but do you have a choice when it comes to love?”

“Everything about our circumstances is transitory, but what most of the people believe in and seek is a higher power or creator.”

“” he smiled, “Are you going against her over the man she snatched from you or for the sake of the subjects that suffer under her reign?”

“John giggled and let the smile linger a bit on his face as he struggled not to lose his cool amidst the entertaining men.”

“” Candy emphasised, turning and facing the entrance to the cafe, she raised the phone again, this time at a ninety degrees angle, “Okay baby, smile!”

“The man, who once was friendly, helpful, full of joy and laughter, turned out to be a dull, blue, irresponsible and negligent who was always annoyed with his wife.”

“With the pills, I was in Prozonia; a sickly and impalpable greyness and without them, I was buffeting inside the sound waves of a cacophonous melody.”

“At times, it feels the urge to make life a bit deeper, a bit more poetic, a bit more rhymed, and a bit more mystic.”

“Among admiration was her dearest friend Nishat and among the envious ones was Natasha and her two side kicks.”
“Coming down the pike, they shared jokes with each other and discussed their lives,commemorating the time they were spending together.”

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زیرِ نظر کتاب ماہی شاہین ؔ کاشعری مجموعہ ہے جس میں انھوں نے اپنی خوبصورت شاعری کو پیش کیا ہے۔ ان کے اشعار میں ایک تسلسل اور خوبصورتی دکھائی دیتی ہےجو پڑھنے والے بھلی معلوم ہے۔جیسے یہ اشعار ملاحظہ فرمائیں
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
ناصر خان نے اس کتاب میں عمدہ اشعار بھی قلم بند کیے ہیں۔ ناصر خان کے اشعار میں تعلیم کے حوالے سے غیر معمولی جوش و خروش پایا جاتا ہے۔ ان کا شعری اسلوب بےحد رواں اور منفرد ہے۔ اس کتاب میں ان کی یہی خوبی نمایاں ہے
I'll meet you there is a poetic book that leaves its readers stunned, to say the least. It was published fairly recently and beautifies the world around us. The book's theme caters to multiple topics and since it is set in modern times and written as poetry, it leaves a lot to be imagined by the readers. The readers are creatively transported into an entirely different world that is beyond the human imagination.
Aysha Khalid is a Turkish poet, she does not believe in the boundaries of language to express herself or her imagination. That’s the reason, she has chosen a Pakistani publishing company ‘Daastan’ to publish her collection of poems.
”یہ ڈھاکہ کالج کے قریب ایک پُرہجوم بازار تھا۔یہاں ضروریاتِ زندگی کی تمام چیزیں دستیاب تھیں۔یہ ہر طبقے کے لوگوں کی خریداری کے لیے سب سے مشہورجگہ تھی۔ایک بہت اچھی مارکیٹ تھی جہاں زیورات، بیگ، کپڑے، اسٹیشنری کی اشیاء، بیڈ شیٹس اور تکیے وغیرہ ملتے تھے۔“