Ujra Diyar By Mehwish Bint e Zahid

About this novel

Ujra Diyar (Urdu: اجڑا دیار, “a ruined homeland”) by Mehwish Bint e Zahid is an Urdu novel of about 100 pages that opens with a young woman in the rain. She tears off her jewellery in anguish and swears she will not marry his friend, because her life is not a game to be handed over.

The story then follows two lives. In one home, Ayan’s family celebrates as he takes seventh position in the CSS exam and turns down every other department to follow his dream of becoming a police officer. Far away, Sarfraz, who married abroad and built his whole life there, tells his daughter Neena to pack: this week they are going to Pakistan.

Ujra Diyar By Mehwish Bint e Zahid (Complete Novel)