Teray Meray Darmiyan By Ana Ilyas

About this novel

Teray Meray Darmiyan (Urdu: تیرے میرے درمیان) by Ana Ilyas is a romantic Urdu novel that begins with a girl running for her life. Haala is hiding on Lahore’s busy Mall Road while men hunt for her, and she knows that if they catch her, they will throw her to the vultures.

She spots a white Alto with its door unlocked, slips into the back, pulls her black dupatta over herself and lies flat between the seats. With her eyes shut she prays: “Ae Allah,” I have left everything in Your name, please get me into safe hands.

اے اللہ، مجھے محفوظ ہاتھوں میں پہنچا دینا۔

The car belongs to two friends, Zamin and Asfand. They have been inseparable since childhood, joined the Army together and then, quietly, the secret services, something very few people know. Their families live in Islamabad, but with terrorism rising in Lahore they have been posted there and share a rented flat in Johar Town. On the drive home Asfand teases Zamin for forgetting to lock the car, and Ana Ilyas describes Zamin as tall, broad-shouldered and serious, the kind of man girls notice. Lying silently behind them, Haala hears the words “secret services” and decides Allah has answered her.

When the car reaches their building, the two men sense movement in the back seat and reach for their guns. Zamin clamps a hand over Haala’s mouth and warns her not to make a sound. After everything she has been through that day, she simply faints. Now two trained agents, who have handled countless tense situations, have no idea what to do with an unconscious girl in their car, and the scene turns from tense to funny as Zamin grows irritated and Asfand can’t stop joking.

The opening mixes fear, dua and humour, and the title, “between you and me”, hints at the rishta that will grow out of this strange first meeting.

You can read Teray Meray Darmiyan online here or download the complete PDF for free. If you like Army and agency heroes, also read Ana Ilyas’s Mohabbat Ki Chaon and Dharkano Ka Ameen, browse our Army based Urdu novels, or see all Ana Ilyas novels.