Yeh Ghazi Yeh Tere Pur Israr Banday by Bisma Ijaz

About this novel

Yeh Ghazi Yeh Tere Pur Israr Banday (Urdu: یہ غازی یہ تیرے پراسرار بندے) by Bisma Ijaz is a very long Urdu novel of journalism and a secret mission. It is full of patriotic spirit and takes its title from Allama Iqbal’s famous poem about the faith-driven warriors of Allah.

The novel opens with lines from Iqbal’s poem about the ghazis whose resolve parts rivers and deserts, for whom martyrdom – not spoils or conquest – is the true goal of a believer. Then the story begins at five in the evening at Pakistan Public News, better known as PPN News, where an emergency meeting has been called and every senior reporter and journalist in the city has been summoned.

Our heroine has only just got home after reporting on an accident. She has asked her mother to warm up some food so she can eat and rest, when the office calls and tells her to come back immediately. “Kya musibat hai,” she grumbles – she can’t even eat in peace! But she decides she’ll eat first, rest for exactly fifteen minutes and only then go to the meeting. Luckily the head office is near the bazaar, fifteen minutes away by taxi, and she has to go alone anyway, because no one is free to drop her.

ایک ہنگامی میٹنگ، ایک خفیہ مشن، اور سال کی سب سے بڑی خبر۔

Of course, she arrives late. “Miss, you are twenty minutes late,” says Sir Azeem coldly, gesturing for her to sit – and whenever he’s annoyed with her, he calls her “Miss” instead of her name. As soon as she sits, he begins the meeting they had been holding for her. Their focus must be the mission, he says: if it’s covered properly, this will be the news of the year. Not a single point should be missed, and above all, no other channel must get even a hint of it, or the entire plan could be ruined. When he asks if anyone has questions, she innocently asks what they should do first – earning a glare and the reply that he has already explained. Work begins in two days.

Bisma Ijaz starts with a lively, slightly stubborn heroine and a tense newsroom, and the poem promises that brave, mysterious soldiers will soon enter the story. A good choice for fans of long army and patriotic Urdu novels.

You can read Yeh Ghazi Yeh Tere Pur Israr Banday online here or download the complete PDF for free. You may also like Kaif E Baharan by Sabeen Ahmed and Wo Jo Qaraz Rakhty Thy Jaan Par, or browse more army Urdu novels.