Book review

 Novel: An innocent dream bleeds

Writer: saffiullah shahwani

Review:

As the name depicts about the dream that bleeds, the hopes shattered an innocent voice from the heart the beautiful thoughts in the mind all broken but how and why . That's what you come to know after reading the thrilling novel. The girl whose name was zeenat grown up hearing heart wrenching incidents of people in her vicinity how the women were killed by their husbands mostly were arranged marriages without the willingness of the girls these all shocked her and she always dreamt of marrying someone she loved who could give her love and care . All those dreams one day come true she fell in love with her dream boy but the irony was that her father Raees had given his words to his friend to marry zeenat with his friend's son who were very rich and prominent well known people of their place  meanwhile the boys father bring proposal to his house which he rejects after taunting him on the poverty. Zeenat when hears about her marriage with her fathers friend son she becomes upset and calls azeem whome she loved asks her to plan an escape so they both could marry . Both of their friends helped them to escape both went to Hub city ,stayed there got married ,soon Raees knew her daughter has ran away with Azeem thought it as an insult of his honour and started searching everywhere for both of them ,got their location and went to Hub but before he reached to Hub ,Zeenat and Azeem have escaped from hub and went to a sardar so that he could help him . Sardar agreed to give them security but made both his slaves. Both of them lived in worsened condition Azeem worked in the field and was not allowed to meet Zeenat who worked in the haweli after months they could meet . When Azeem got confirmed that it is impossible for him to escape from here he asked Zeenat to escape and he would divorce him so atleast she could live her life in her own way . Zeenat escaped and went to home of a takari in quetta whose wife took zeenat to a gynaecologist on the worsening condition of zeenat where she finds that she is pregnant. Now she begins to cry aloud asking herself why she got divorced if she knew this before she would have never agreed to get divorse ,still she has a hope that when she will call his father and brothers they would forgive her on her mistake and will take her home her family members got informed of her location went to take her back home bit on their way they turned the car to a place where zeenat death was planned and another story of honour killing was added in the list . 

This novel depicts the political situation and the problems prevailing in most of the societies in Balochistan .