By Syeda Maah-Noor Ali There was once a vision and seventy years ago the vision became a reality. A vision of a separate state. Muhammad...

By Malahat Zafar ‘Ye Inquilab hai sir’ insists the peaceful protestor at the Farmer’s rights protest. Inquilab (revolution). Something...

By Ahhad Iqbal Growing up in the Pakistani diaspora I’ve observed many things. Great food, great style, great mannerisms, but also great...

By Madiha Zafar Like most people, I have vague memories from when I was as young as four or five. But there are just a few memories which...

By Ruqayyah Khawar Minhas It sounds odd but sometimes we are living in a place, where we were born, where we went to school and spent a...

By Marzooqa Deep in the south of the Indian Peninsula, known for its languorous canals and the tea-covered hills of the Western Ghats (a...

Told By Pakistani grandparents to Anonymous The Prophet Sulayman had this wonderful gift of being able to talk to animals. He was also a...

I was in Turkey over the Summer of 2019, a mere four-hour flight from Pakistan. Towards the end of my time in Turkey, I realised it would...

by Faryal Q. Khan The story depended on the number of people/children present in the room. Usually, it was me and my sister. And it was...

By May Thomas. Retold by Sophie Thomas Illustration by Sophie Thomas One day at the bottom of the garden, it started to rain. The rain...

Told in Peru By Anonymous When the world began, there was no night-time, only day. No one knew what sunrises were or sunsets, or how...

By Anwar Haneefa Coffee has been a popular drink among the Muslims at least since the 15th century and has always been subject for...

Written by Faisal Nazir Edited by Maah-Noor Ali Have you ever just felt continuously empty? regardless of how happy you are and how...

Welcome to our online Magazine section of Afsana - Our Stories! I'm Maah-Noor, a Final year English Student at Oxford Univerity,...