La-Hasil an Amazing Novel

I was going to Karachi and I asked my friend Umar Ashraf if he could give me any interesting book to read while my journey. And he gave me the book La- Hasil (لا حاصل) by Umaira Ahmad, a well known Urdu writer, when he was taking me to the Daewoo bus service terminal at Rawal Pindi. I found the book quite interesting and enjoyed reading it.

The book is very interesting. It catches the eyes of the reader until he reads the book till its last page. It is very hard to leave the book before reading the entire book. Umaira wrote in such a way that one feels that all the scenes are happening before him.

The novel is about a woman, Khadija Noor, whose ex name was Katherine. She was an English Christian call girl, a daughter of a Pakistani father and English mother, who had not seen her father as he left her and her mother when he completed his British nationality papers.

Katherine spent her childhood in a very difficult way and when she was 16 her mother died and she started selling her body to earn money. She meets a Pakistani boy Mazhar Awwab, a student of Law in England and they both fall in love with each other.

After completing his Education Mazhar returns back to Pakistan to complete some work here and go back to England and get married with Katherine. But when he goes back to England Katherine is missed and he fails to find her. Actually she was captured by a gang and forced to be a prostitute again and her life goes hard once again.

She escapes one day and starts new life and one day Mazhar finds him and they get married and start new life. She accepts Islam and changes her name to Khadija Noor. They have a son and name him Zul Eid Awwab.

One day Mazhar calls his one friend for dinner and, bad luck for Khadija, the man is her customer. He tells Mazhar about her past and her name Dusky Damsel. Mazhar divorces her and takes the baby and she is left once again in complete darkness.

She leaves London to Birmingham and joins an Islamic centre and finds a new job with reference of Islamic centre. And now her life enters in a new phase.

How does she come to Pakistan? With whom she gets married in Pakistan? How do they adopt a girl and name her Umme Maryam? How the character of Umme Maryam? How does she find her son in Pakistan? The answers of these questions are quite interesting and Umaisra Ahmad has given all the details in a beautiful way.

In some lines one cannot hold his eyes and tears begin to flow. The time when Zul Eid know that Khadija Noor (Mama Jan) is his mather is very beautiful. In a nutshell the book is very interesting and every Urdu lover should read the book, and he will not think that his time is wasted.

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