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Alien friend                                                                                                                                                By Saad Salman



It was night; Rafay was sleeping on his bed. Suddenly he heard a horrible noise. It was coming from the street outside. Since no one was awake, Rafay went outside to see what was going on. He saw a huge space ship. The colour of the ship was red and blue. Suddenly a big fat alien came out from the space ship and said something that Rafay couldn’t understand. Rafay ran to his uncle’s room and woke him up. Rafay’s uncle was a scientist and he loved to do researches on aliens. Rafay told his uncle to translate the alien’s language into English. Uncle pressed the button and the alien started to speak. The alien name was Hoop. He told that he is from some other planet and he is here to save his friends. Hoop’s friends were in the Earth. Hoop also told that there is a team named Alien Force. They catch aliens from different planets and use their bodies for different uses. Hoop’s friends are caught by the team. Rafay thought for a while. Then he went to his parents and asked about it. His parents agreed so Rafay and his uncle promised Hoop to help Hoop’s friend. Uncle used his teleporting machine to go to the lab of the Alien Force. The three of them were in the lab. They couldn’t see anyone. Hoop ran to the room where all the cages were kept. Rafay also ran after him. Uncle took out his giant robot and stood there. In the room where the cages were kept, Hoop and Rafay saw that there were more that hundred cages. Hoop was an alien so he used his special power to open the cages. After a minute, all the aliens came out and Hoop also met his friends. It was not so easy to get out of the lab because three big robots came in front of Rafay and all the aliens. The aliens used their powers to destroy the robots but it was no use. Rafay was a brave boy, he called his uncle inside. Uncle ran inside with his huge robot. The three robots were like small animals to uncle’s robot. The robots had a great fight. The aliens also fought and the Alien Force was finished. Alien Force’s lab and their rooms were all destroyed. Uncle’s robot had a great damage but it was okay. One thing was very bad about this fight, forty-five aliens died. It was very sad news for the aliens. The aliens thanked Rafay and his uncle and they went to their planet and they all lived happily ever after.





The magic charm school                                                        By Mishaal Abaas



Here I am said Lisa excitedly as she entered the magic charm school. Lisa was always interested in magic; therefore her parents thought for her best and put her in a magic school. In her old school she didn't have many friends because they thought she was weird. But she was sure to make some friends in this school! She thought to herself. Suddenly a shrieking and horrible noise interrupted Lisa's thoughts, it was the headmistress! Lisa was amazed to see her because she was an ugly huge troll! Then all of the children started gathering up for the assembly. As Lisa was walking towards the assembly hall, she met a girl called Ashley. Ashley was very kind to her and showed her all the places in the school. Ashley didn't have many friends either, so they both became best friends!

When it was lunch time the headmistress told everyone about their rooms and roommates! Luckily Ashley and Lisa had the same rooms! Lisa was very excited.
The next day their first class started. Ashley and Lisa sat together. What are we going to learn in this class? Asked Lisa to Ashley. Well said Ashley we are going to be learning spells! After all the classes had finished. Lisa and Ashley headed towards their room. Ashley had slept when all of a sudden Lisa was shocked to hear a loud shouting voice! So Lisa got up and went outside to see what it was. As she stepped out of the room she started to follow the sound. And all of a sudden the headmistress grabbed her! She took her to a boiling pot of water and hung Lisa over it! Lisa screamed and screamed but no one heard her! Then the mean troll said I will eat you for breakfast in the morning!!hahahahahah she crackled.
The next day Ashley woke and was startled to see Lisa was not there. Ashley searched everywhere but Lisa was nowhere to be seen! Ashley asked everyone but no one knew where she had gone to! That night Ashley woke up and was very worried so she took a little walk around the school. When she got to the office she heard Lisa's scream's and hurried into the office. There she saw Lisa hanging over the boiling pot and saw the troll sleeping, so she untied Lisa and asked her what had happened. Lisa told her everything.
The next morning before the sun had raised Lisa and Ashley both went to the sleeping troll and boiled her in the pot! They told everyone and they were all very happy!
After that Lisa and Ashley both went to their own homes and lived happily ever after.
THE END!!!!!

Why cat chases mouse?                                                   By Ghumaisa Usmani

Once there was a loin, he was sleeping, but was disturbed by some noise, he woke up and saw that the cat was chasing little mouse. He was very angry and roared hardly, the mouse ran and hid behind a bush nearby and the cat ran away. The mouse came outside and said, ‘thanks your majesty; I will return your kindness to you someday’. The loin arrogantly replied ‘you are so small you cannot make any difference in my life’. The mouse was very disappointed and went. Actually the mouse was very friendly and was friend to many animals in the jungle whereas the cat had almost no friends because she had some irritating habits like she used to talk behind people’s back, she didn’t liked any body and nobody liked her as well and she had a habit of being jealous, she was jealous of many animals especially the mouse. One day the cat decided to see the loin but she saw the loin was trapped in a net and a jeep was standing beside it. The cat hid behind the tree. The mouse decided to see the loin the same day, he went there, after a minute or two he was there, and when he saw what was happening he told himself that this is his chance to prove himself that he can make big changes. So he went there and bite the men who captured the loin and in no time untied the loin with the help of his sharp teeth and when the loin was free he roared and men ran. The mouse proudly said “see I saved your life, made a big change in your life”. The cat felt jealous because she couldn’t do anything to save the loin but the little mouse did. Because of his bravery the mouse was very popular now and was announced as the hero of the jungle, and now he and the loin became very good friends. The loin organized a party to introduce the mouse as the hero of the jungle. Loin invited very popular and important people of the jungle to his party, the cat was looking forward for the invitation but was very upset to know that she wasn’t invited but she wanted to see the ceremony and she went, the guards stopped her because she was neither royal nor important. So she hid behind the tree and watched it from there. She felt jealous when she saw the mouse sitting beside the loin and said to herself that she has to finish that little mouse. The next day she made a plan and went to the mouse and said “congratulation on your achievement and can we be friends now” as the mouse was very friendly he said “okay”. Then while talking with the mouse she took him to a lonely place and waited for the moment to kill him but the mouse identified her plan and ran to the loin and was safe now. But the next day the loin was very sick and couldn’t even move so the cat saw her lucky chance and started running after the mouse but couldn’t get it and is still chasing the mouse.



The case of the meat shop                                              BBy  Abdur Rafay Khan     

      Wayne Weasely's shop "Ze Delicious Meat Shoppe", sold the most delicious meat the people had ever tasted. Other butchers also tried to make the same type of meat but none of them could produce the mouth watering taste like Wayne's meat.

 

Now Chris Stephen, the famous detective, wanted to know what was the secret behind the delicious taste of the meat. So he disguised himself as an employee for the meat shop, under the name "Ronald Goldfield". Stephen knew that Wayne didn't like to talk to police, so he had to disguise himself.
When he arrived at the shop he said To Wayne Weasely, "Sir I want to work in your meat shop and I want to help you in your work."
Weasely said, "Come on in sonny. By the way what is your name?"
"Ronald Goldfield." said Stephen.
"Alright Ronald, I want you to pack the remaining meat every day in crates and then you should put them in the pantry downstairs." explained Weasely.
"Got it!" said Stephen.
So each night Chris Stephen packed the remaining meat in the crates and kept them in the pantry. He used to see that the queue in the shop was like it was never going to end. But still Stephen could not get to the truth what was in the meat that made it so scrumptious.
Then one night when Stephen went down the pantry to keep the crates, he heard the sound of metal clinging to one another and turned around to see Weasely holding a huge cleaver above his head. He tried to chop off the head of Stephen but the detective knew judo karate and dodged him and in no time he pinned Wayne. He phoned Inspector Jonathon Holmes from the telephone in the shop.
"Inspector I have a cannibal pinned in this shop. Please come quick or I will lose my grip on him" he said.
"I am on my way!" said Jonathon Holmes.
At the police station Stephen explained everything, "I knew that Weasely sold the tastiest meat but I knew there had to be a reason so I disguised myself. Weasely allowed me to work in his shop. I couldn't figure out what the meat contained until today. He used to kill his employees in the shop during the night. Night was the best option Wayne had to make his move, because at that time the queues start to finish. He chopped their meat and in the morning sold the meat."
"But why only human meat?" asked Holmes.
"Because my friend, human meat is the only meat in the world which has a distinctive, delicious taste and no animal meat can match the taste. And once you get to taste it, you can never pull that taste off your tongue."
“Wow Chris you single-handedly caught a person responsible for innocent deaths. I'm totally impressed!” said Holmes.

"It's elementary my dear friend." smiled Chris Stephen. 



Honest                                                                               By Azam Tariq Kohistani

 

 

 
I don’t know what director thought to give me the job to find an honest person for the office. He also asked me to take interview and select a suitable person for the job. I couldn’t say no to the director and make him angry, but they are only few honest people in the society, anyways I gave an advertisement in the newspaper and after a few days a large crowd of young men arrived at the office for the interview. The first person who entered the office was a handsome, tall young man with a full beard, without wasting any time. I asked him, “What’s your name.”
“My name is Mohammad Omer Hayaat and I have done my masters in Urdu”.
“Hmmm” I sighed, deep in thought.
“So Mr. Omer Hayaat! How many place have you worked at before?”
“No sir! This will be my first job if ……? “He left the sentence unfinished.
“You mean this is your first job interview ever?” I asked in utter shock.
“No sir it’s been two years since I finished my masters and have been trying really hard to find a job but luck is not with me, luck only helped me where only bribe can work”
M. Omer Hayaat tone was filled with sadness that I could be easily felt
“Have you brought your documents with you?
“Yes sir “He handed me his documents,
I looked at them and they were perfect for our company’s level, but we needed an honest man because……..!?
“Ok so Mr. Omer Hayaat! Now I’d like you to hear our work details. We need a person who is “honest” because when it comes to money, many honest people have fallen off the wagon and up until now our three agents have bad deeds where money was concerned – This not a government but a private company and dishonesty in money is never tolerated by the company, that’s why they are in jail. To fulfill the customer’s trust we must have an honest person. Can you prove that you are an honest person?”   
“Sir I will not let you down.”
His tone was very confident but this kind of trust had us fooled us thrice.
“Ok, you may leave now I didn’t have any other choice to trust them blindly.
After that one different man came but except for Mr. Omer Hayaat , Abdul Hameed and Osama Farooq , no one else impressed me. Company had already paid their loss because of cheated by 3 agents. So now, it’s important to test them. I was in deep thought about which of the three men was best for the company.
“Sir its, time for prayers.” Said the peon to me and I was startled, by his voice as I was in a really deep thought. I couldn’t hear the Azaan as my room was soundproof while walking towards the Mosque unique idea came to my mind which solved my problem.


The three of them were sitting in front of me, after about two minutes of silence I broke the ice.
So my brothers! There is one job…. And three candidates……. I was in search of one person …..so right after taking your interviews I gave three of the company’s employees your addresses and sent them there to find out from your friends and neighbors exactly how” honest” you are? According to their reports all three of you are very honest and along with your neighbors but…….” I left the half sentence …..”
But what sir? “The three spoke in chorus.
“But that special honest quality was found in just one of you three.”
“But sir who is that lucky person who is honest in your company’s sight.” Inquisitively could be easily found in Abdul Hameed’s tone-
“I’ll tell that too but first I want to answer the question you all are hesitating to ask.” I said with a smile.
As soon as I became silent the inquisitively and eagerness on their faces increased.
“Sir we are feeling a lot of eagerness.” Usama farooq said changing the topic.
“Your’e eagerness will be eased in a few moments.” I said enjoying myself. “The thing is that if only one person is worth for the job then why did I call the other two. So my respected brothers, the answer to this question are that I want to tell the other two their mistake so that they may not repeat it in the future.
All three of them got even more impressed by me after listening me. Now they were completely silent……..and their full attention was diverted towards me. At that time if any piece of paper flapped they would had irritated look on their faces…….but there was complete silence at that time.
“The person worthy of this job………”
Leaving the sentence incomplete was perhaps my habit, but at that moment only their hearts were beating.
“Is Mr.Omer hayaat……because you two haven’t been offering your prayers since long time while Mr. Omer Hayaat daily offers 5 times prayers.”
“But sir…….”
“I have understood what you were saying” I said without letting them complete.
But the truth is that the person who is cheating his creator (Allah), so how will he be honest with his company. My sentence made them bow their heads with shame, but I was hoping that they would not repeat this mistake all their lives and that was success for me……….

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A Hard time 

 

Yesterday, I went to the park with my dad. We have been close my entire life, I literally fall into that category of, “Daddy’s little girl”. At least once a week, my husband, kids and I would meet him the park. We would let the kids play and catch up on everything. My husband and I worked at the same company and we both lost our job due to the former banking crisis. Things had been hard for a while. I mean paying for the house, the cars, the kids and everything else had wiped out our savings and we even had to get some government assistance. That day we are sitting in the park and my dad pulls an envelope out of his jacket and hands it to me. I looked at it curiously. My parents were not very wealthy just blue collar workers their entire life. I opened the envelope and there is a letter, and a bank statement. My dad looks up and says, “Honey I know that you have been having a hard time, and it’s not your fault. Your mother and I discussed it and we decided it was time to give your inheritance to you early. We love you all and we don’t want to see the two of you and the grandkids suffer if it can be avoided”. I had no clue that my father and mother had been saving up for me since the day I was born. He handed me a check, bank statement and a hand written letter. The check was for over $200,000.00, the statement was transferring it to my name and the letter said, “I’ll always take care of my little girl”.

  

 


COol Inventions                        by Aisha Abdul Quddus

 

 

 

 

Yesterday when I was using vacuum cleaner to clean my room, suddenly I thought, ‘Who was the person behind the vacuum cleaner. I have never read it in books, let me find it now.’ Then I opened my laptop and searched for the person who made our lives so easier. At last I found it. This is what I found. ‘In 1903, Herbert Booth became the brains behind the vacuum cleaner’ Thanks to Herbert for inventing the vacuum cleaner. Now the very same day, when I was taking out ice-cream from the refrigerator, I thought ‘Now who is the man behind the refrigerator. This time I asked my daddy. He told me ‘In 1851, Dr John Gorrie came up with the idea of refrigerator, inspired by his plan to keep fevered patients cool through pressured gases’ Now today when I was completing my holiday’s homework, as I had to draw diagrams so I used my best pencil and then you know what happened and this time it was my elder cousin’s turn to tell me about the invention of pencil. This is what he said ‘Pencils were the idea of Conrad Gesner from Germany, who took the soft material of carbon and encased it in wood in 1565.’ Friends last month when I was going to school, as you know that there is always construction going on in Qatar so at one spot I saw a big mountain of cement. Then as soon as reached the school I asked my science teacher about the invention of cement. She told me ‘Cement which is used for building, also known as Portland cement was invented by Joseph Aspdin in 1824. He was a British soldier and he mixed limestone and clay to form a stronger substance’ Friends do you know how to play Chinese whisper, Well, I do know. I think so that most of you would not know about its origin. Let me tell you about it. Once there was an officer who sent a message to a relay of solider. The message was actually ‘Send reinforcements, we are going to advance’ but the intended recipient received it as ‘Send three or four pence; we are going to dance.' This is how this game started. Isn't that funny!

                                                

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