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sophiamirzaofficial · 2 years

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Shahzad Akbar used FIA against Dubai business tycoon in Sofia Mirza false case

LAHORE: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's adviser on accountability and interior Mr Shahzad Akbar used the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to run a vindictive campaign on behalf of actor and model Sofia Mirza against her former husband and Dubai-based Pakistani-Norwegian businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor, according to court papers.

Shahzad Akbar and Sofia Mirza, whose real name is Khushbakht Mirza, are best friends and Shahzad Akbar used his powers as one of the most powerful ministers of Imran Khan govt to attack Umar Farooq Zahoor by linking him to former DG FIA Bashir Memon as well as using the FIA powers to bring him down.

In June 2020, Sofia Mirza launched a a complaint at the the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore’s Corporate Circle about an alleged fraud and money-laundering of around 16 billion Rupees from a concerned citizen Khushbakht Mirza about the Dubai-based Pakistani-Norwegian businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor. FIA sources have said that Shahzad Akbar guided Sofia Mirza to make the complaint so FIA could be used against Umar Farooq Zahoor.

The complaint made its way to the PTI govt’s cabinet agenda via the Interior Ministry, being run by Assets Recovery Unit (ARU) Chairman Mirza Shehzad Akbar. The federal government gave a go-ahead to the FIA to probe the alleged fraud of over 16 billion Rupees by Umar Zahoor and his relative Saleem Ahmad.

The cabinet was told by the Interior Ministry that two separate cases have been registered against Umar Farooq Zahoor by the Corporate Crime Circle of the FIA after completing inquiries in both cases and during the inquiries it came to light that Umar Farooq Zahoor and the co-accused had allegedly committed a bank fraud of $89.2m in Oslo, Norway, in 2010 and another fraud involving an amount of $12m in Bern, Switzerland, in 2004.

In her complaint to the FIA, the concerned citizen Khushbakht Mirza didn’t reveal she was known as model and actor Sofia Mirza and she also didn’t disclose that Umar Farooq Zahoor was her former husband.

This publication has obtained a copy of the original complaint by actress Khushbakht Mirza made before the FIA in June 2020 which triggered action against Mr Zahoor.

She alleged that Umar Farooq Zahoor and his family were involved in money-laundering; had committed “crimes and frauds in different countries including Norway, Oslo; defrauded a bank in tune of $20 million dollars; was convicted and wanted in Norway; committed fraud of $120 million in Switzerland; was involved in smuggling of minors; committed fraud of 9.37 million Turkish Lira; executed shady deal of $510 million in Ghana; owns millions of Dollars in cash in the shape of black money and many houses and properties in Dubai and Pakistan worth hundreds of millions of Dollars including in Dubai’s upper class districts, Sialkot, Gwadar and Islamabad.

Sofia Mirza accused the businessman of being involved in gold smuggling, owning expensive watches, keeping millions of Rupees and gold at home and bank lockers in Dubai, owning Rolls Royce, Mercedes and BMW and accused him of illegally getting “billions of Rupees” in fraud from various countries; defaming Pakistan and trying to defraud businesses in Pakistan. She asked the FIA to “please initiate inquiry against this hardened criminal for the sake of country name and billions of Rupees fraud”.

The cabinet didn’t ask any questions before approving the summary presented by Shahzad Akbar. The Interior Ministry didn’t tell the Cabinet that the complainant Khushbakht Mirza, known in showbiz industry as Sofia Mirza, was actually the former wife of Umar Farooq Zahoor and that they have been at war over their two daughters who have been living with at their free will with their father in Dubai. Twin sisters Zainab and Zunerah have told the UAE Shariah court they want to live with their father. They have bene living with their father in Dubai since 2008 after the couple ended up in a divorce.

The cabinet was not informed that the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a Shariah Court of United Arab Emirates had already settled the matter of custody of the couple’s two daughters Zainab and Zunerah. Before the registration of two corruption cases, Ms Khushbakht had also managed to get a case registered against Mr Umer Farooq Zahoor and others for kidnapping his own daughters. The FIA, despite being cognizant of the fact that it is a settled law of country that case of abducting own children cannot be registered against any of the parent, proceeded with registration of case against Mr Umar Farooq under instructions of Shehzad Akbar, who was at the time Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan.

After the Federal cabinet approved the summary, FIA Lahore Chief Dr Rizwan started action against Umar Farooq Zahoor: his name was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL); non-bailable warrants in one of the FIRs were obtained from the Court without fulfilling the legal requirements and on the basis of said non-bailable warrants, his passport and CNIC were blacklisted and Red Warrants were issued through INTERPOL.

Umar Farooq Zahoor, who is Liberia’s Ambassador at Large, initiated legal case against the FIA’s vindictive action.

The Additional Session Judge Lahore Rafaqat Ali Gondal vide his order dated 29.03.2021 set-aside the non-bailable warrants issued earlier as same were obtained without following the mandatory legal procedure provided under Criminal Code. The Court observed that Section 87 and 88 of CrPC 1898 provide a complete procedure which has to be followed before declaring any accused person to be a proclaimed offender and proper notices have to be issued to the accused person before issuing perpetual warrants against him or declaring him a proclaimed offender but in this case “no such notice has ever been issued to the applicant”.

Mr Farooq also approached the Lahore High Court for removal of Red Warrants issued against him. Honorable Justice Shujaat Ali Khan after hearing the case at length, directed the FIA vide his Order dated 09.06.2021 to immediately withdraw the Red Warrants issued against Mr Zahoor.

The court observed that any criminal proceedings against Mr Zahoor is being the ambassador at Large for the republic of Liberia since 2019 for the regions of Middle East and South East Asia including Pakistan he enjoys immunity under Article 29 and Article 31 of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations which provides immunity to the ambassadors and diplomats against all kinds of criminal prosecution, arrest and detention.

The FIA challenged the said order before the Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan where it was upheld. The malafide of FIA reflects from the fact that despite the aforesaid orders of Superior Courts, the FIA has so far failed to withdraw the illegal Red Warrants. It is worth noting that Mr Zahoor has also filed a Contempt Petition against the Secretary Interior and others for not implementing the Order of the Honorable Lahore High Court.

A recent court order has again exposed how the FIA officials acted outside of the law to go after Umar Farooq Zahoor while Shehzad Akbar and FIA’s Lahore Chief Dr Rizwan conspired with Sofia Mirza to hunt down Umar Farooq Zahoor at any cost. Despite the clear orders of the Honorable Lahore High Court that Mr Zahoor being ambassador at large for Liberia enjoys diplomatic immunity, the FIA again issued a Diffusion Notice against Mr Zahoor and his brother in law Saleem Ahmad on the pretext of active non-bailable warrants against them in cases of Corruption. To save himself from the illegal FIA action, Umar Farooq approached Judicial Magistrate Lahore in the court of Ghulam Murtaza Virk who heard the case.

The court’s order reveals that FIA effectively lied to the Interpol that it had permission of the same court for action against the businessman and issued Diffusion Notice in pursuance of the said permission. Judge Mr Ghulam Murtaza Virk noted that “from the bare perusal of reports it reveals that in both the cases FIR 36 of 2020 and 40 of 2020 neither any non-bailable warrants of arrest have been issued from this court nor any report has been submitted by FIA. Therefore, the stance taken by the FIA authorities in diffusion letter written to Interpol that challan in both the cases have been submitted before this court is against the record.”

Umar Farooq’s name was mentioned in breaking news headlines when the PTI government had a fallout with Bashir Memon, the former DG FIA, who publicly alleged that he was asked by former PM Imran Khan to cook up cases against Maryam Nawaz, Khawaja Asif and others - and was sidelined and removed when he refused to abide by any illegality.

In March 2022, it was reported in charge sheet against Memon that he had facilitated illegal Pakistan visits of Umar Farooq Zahoor, against whom there was a pending Red Arrest Warrant and a request to INTERPOL for his arrest. Media at the time had linked Zahoor with Memon and raised the issue of alleged corruption but none had any idea that at the heart of the whole controversy is a broken marriage and custody battle of two daughters.

Umar Farooq Zahoor’s lawyer said: “It is apparent from the orders of the Court that the FIA has personal axe to grind against Umar Farooq Zahoor and malicious campaign and prosecution is being run against him for extortion of money.”

Umar Farooq Zahoor believes that his former wife used her connections with Shehzad Akbar, the former Chairman of the Assets Recovery Unit (ARU) of Pakistan who controlled FIA, to initiate action against him.

It was not just a coincidence that Pakistan FIA started cases against Umar Zahoor when authorities in Switzerland had decided to end case against Umar Zahoor while Norway police had already dropped the case. Authorities in both the countries had informed FIA that the cases will be closed and that’s when cases in Pakistan were started in urgency.

Court spares show that authorities in Switzerland started a case against Umar Zahoor and New Zealand national Shaun Morgan for running an illegal bank called “Bank International” from December 2003 to February 2004.

Swiss authorities confirmed that on 7 December 2020 the case against Umar Zahoor was dropped without any further action due to lack of evidence and the issue of time-bar.

About the same case, a Turkish citizen Erhan Kanionglulari had made a complaint in 2005 to Pakistan authorities and on request of the Turkish embassy a probe was started against Umar Zahoor. The Turkish national had alleged he was the victim of alleged fraud in Switzerland to the tune of 9.73 million Euros.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) started an inquiry into Umar Zahoor and the Turkish national visited Pakistan to assist the inquiry but gave no evidence to back up his claims and even then the NAB went on to investigate Umar Zahoor. After finding no poofs of corruption, the case against Umar Farooq Zahoor was closed by the Accountability Court Karachi in August 2013, giving him a clean chit.

A case was registered against Umar Zahoor in Norway in 2010 on the allegation that some bank officials of Nordea bank of Norway colluded with some private persons to fraudulently deprive Randi Nilsen of 89.2 million Norwegian Kroners and transferred the same to UAE banks. In May 2020 the Norwegian authorities closed the case over lack of evidence.

The Public Prosecutor of Kenton Zurich Mr Jean-Richard-dit-Bresssel confirmed: “It is decided the criminal case against Umar Zahoor for fraud is discontinued.” Official papers of Switzerland govt confirm that arrest warrants issued by the Interpol against Umar Zahoor were deleted in March 2021 after the closure of the investigation.

Official papers of the Oslo police confirm that the case against Umar Farooq Zahoor was dismissed on 12 May 2020. “The case is dismissed since it is assumed there is no reasonable grounds for investigation whether a crime has been committed, cf. the Criminal Procedure Act 224 1st Paragraph,” said the Oslo Police District.

#Sophia Mirza #pakistani actors #Umar Farooq Zahoor #Model Sophia Mirza

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yourdailyqueer · 3 months

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Felix Mufti

Gender: Transgender non binary (he/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 2001

Ethnicity: Pakistani, White

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor, activist

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khadijha · 1 year

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shirtlessmoviestv · 8 months

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Danish Taimoor : Kaisi Teri Khudgarzi

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dykefaggotry · 10 months

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any brown man: h-

every white woman in a 10 mile radius: PEDRO PASCAL??? OMG HAS ANYONE TOLD YOU YOU LOOK LIKE PEDRO PASCAL? HE LOOKS JUST LIKE PEDRO PASCAL. PEDRO PASC-

#I'm not going to lie it's made me dislike seeing pedro pascal through no fault of his own #but the way white women have been obsessing over him has made me genuinely exhausted #just saw someone say ballister looks like he was animated to be fucking pedro pascal and I cannot do it any longer #like no actually he was animated to look like his voice actor #who is pakistani. and neither of them look anything like pedro fucking pascal I'm going to hit you with a broom #the comments on any brown man's tiktok these days is a minefield of just PEDRO PASCAL? and I'm tired

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saddammaalik · 23 days

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Saddam Maalik is Here

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befuddled-calico-whump · 2 months

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If you could cast any celebs to play the T$$ gang in a live-action adaptation, who would you pick?

that's so hard to say because of how few actors I know 😅 and because there are relatively so few non-white mainstream actors skfjkdkd

best I can do is faceclaims since I don't know the acting styles of those I'd list really?

Yash Dasgupta for Sahota

Eileen Soong for Joy

Donald Glover for Jericho

Ricky Kim for Hunter

Paing Takhon for Benji (he's Burmese but he's the closest I can find to a celebrity who looks like Benji lol)

Parmish Verma for Kaius (the closest I can get while staying in the celebrity realm)

#benji would want to be played by idina menzel but alas #i love donald glover too 😭😭 his face just makes me smile his grin is adorable #it's rough because i definitely would wanna keep the characters' ethnicities #which if it theoretically DID get an actual casting call im sure actors could be found #but with what currently exists in pop culture not so much skfjjf #as far as google tells me there are no trans indian/Pakistani actors for kaius either so we're working with it #he'd have to be clean shaven though 😭#and definitely body types would play in because joy is stocky and muscular and jericho has a prime dad bod #and hunter is like... unhealthy skinny #but yknow #im nitpicking and spending way too long on this dhfhkdkd #anon #t$$

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xaqiarts · 5 months

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Saqib Khan, also known as Xaqi Arts, is a young and talented artist from Punjab, Pakistan. He is passionate about portfolios, catalogues, photography, videography and fine arts. He has a Facebook page and a YouTube channel where he showcases his work to a global audience. He also makes short videos using songs by Badshah and other popular artists.

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silsila-ki-rekha · 1 year

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नैना नवाबी जी ना समझें इशारे...

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badedramay · 1 year

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so. since you’re revisiting, a diyar-e-dil question. i started rewatching a lot of old dramas i used to love recently and while i can acknowledge many of these are products of their time and emblematic of certain societal ideals i also feel like the harm of those ideals is sometimes so hard to ignore. like in rewatching diyar-e-dil i’ll go to the youtube comments and so many people have nothing but disdain for ruhi when all i can feel rewatching as an adult is immense sympathy for her. i know the point of the drama as a whole is to overcome differences and prejudice and to mend old wounds, and there is of course a valid concern in how ruhi imposes her own anger and hatred onto faarah to the point of suffocation. but i don’t know how people don’t sympathize with ruhi for the reasons she’s angry in the first place. if i were a mother and my husband told me to get my daughter married to her cousin out of a need to mend old wounds i would be infuriated. i would feel terrified for my daughter and for her ability to make her own choices. and it feels like the degree to which ruhi and faarah are stripped of agency for the sake of perpetuating the whole narrative is almost absurd, like they have to go along with everything and wait for it all to fall into place bc that’s the only way the message of familial unity will get across (and i know faarah doesn’t give in literally speaking, she’s obv quite defiant, but i’m referring more to the wait-and-see narrative approach that our dramas are so often fond of to make a girl come around to a guy she’s forcefully married to). of course wali ends up being the better love interest in the end even though he utterly manhandles her in the beginning bc she “belongs” to him. of course ruhi was just wrong and judgmental of the family the whole time and not reacting to a fear of feudalist tradition and supremacy. of course faarah’s mamoozaad cousin was conveniently evil and psychotic the whole time. it all feels way too convenient. and i know there has to be some suspension of disbelief to successfully engage with these stories but i don’t know how capable i am of it anymore when it seems so many harmful stereotypes and mindsets are perpetuated through our dramas and continue to be, and they overwhelmingly treat people who are apprehensive of the harms of certain traditions like judgmental aliens who simply have to meet the right family to come around. it feels like a very naive approach to addressing those apprehensions and the societal concerns at the root of them

in any case, i know you love diyar-e-dil a lot, so if any of this upsets you feel free to delete the ask entirely. but (to finally ask my question lol) i was wondering, did any of these little details ever catch your eye or bother you too with respect to what we allow dramas to subtly perpetuate on a societal level? i feel like people’s engagement with these topics and to this level of depth is quite low on pak drama twt, but i’ve enjoyed your deeper analysis so i figured i’d take a chance and ask for your insight. hope none of this comes off as judgmental of you or your tastes bc i definitely don’t intend it to be! for all of my qualms with the drama now i am still fond of it in certain aspects, just not so much in others anymore

*rubs hand in glee*

first off, thank you for sending in this long and insightful ask. just to be clear i am not the least bit upset or offended by it cuz whatever you said IS a valid point. tbh, the reason why i want to revisit Diyar e Dil is because I want to watch it and see how I *now* feel about it. nostalgia paints a pretty picture and while I am sure no amount of years will lessen my love for this drama, my reason for revisiting is to see what more I can add to the commentary that I have already made (and i have made a LOT of it) about the drama and its narrative themes. have my tastes changed? how forgiving or not am I now about the things show in the drama vs when I first watched it in 2015 or when I rewatched it in 2018? i know i have changed..but how much has Diyar e Dil changed in the years? these are important questions and I believe asking them is only fair and legitimate. bhayee jo baat hai..how long can we continue to recommend dramas as "best that the industry has to offer" but with a disclaimer "yeah ignore some of the obvious flaws of it though". Diyar e Dil for so long has been my no-brainer drama to recommend to people looking for quality scripts..it's only fair if I put it to test.

therefore fair warning: i am answering this based on my previous knowledge of the show which might be lacking cuz time works in a funny way to the memory xD

warning 2: it's long.

Ruhi was, in its truest essence, a grey character. up until the point when Behroze takes Ruhi to meet Aga Jaan after he makes the choice of choosing his love over his family, Ruhi had all my support. she wasn't a bad person; despite her fears she encouraged her husband to reconnect with his family. even until Behroze makes his decision of getting Faraa married to Wali, I could sympathize with Ruhi. where she fully loses me is how Ruhi treats Faraa after all that. the years long emotional abuse she subjects Faraa to..that's where she crosses a line of no coming back. the thing with Ruhi is that makes it easy for the YT audience to make her the subject of their disdain is how hypocritical Ruhi was when it came to her family vs Behroze's. Ruhi went above and beyond to keep her family close and in love with her. I get why she did it, the fear of abandonment had her clinging on to them for dear life. Where Behroze also lost her is how she simply refused to extend that courtesy towards Behroze's family. She had such a trigger happy response ready whenever Behroze mentioned his father that it baffled Behroze. Had he not been a good husband to Ruhi? Had he not been a good son-in-law for her family? Had he not loved and supported her and her family in whatever capacity he could? Behroze's obligation was only towards Ruhi but he accepted that Ruhi's family came around in their toughest times so he accepted them as his own. But that doesn't erase that his family DOES exist. That for years his brother had been trying to build the bridge between him and their father. That it was Behroze's own zidd that made him lose time in which he could've made more peaceful amends. Behroze was troubled, he was emotionally and mentally disturbed; the first person he expected to give him support no questions asked was the first person to abandon him. And Ruhi CONTINUED to abandon Behroze for years by not caring for Faraa; by not even trying to muster up the manners to have a kind conversation with her father-in-law. Ruhi and Behroze were both abandoned by their family. In both cases the families did eventually come around. if Ruhi was willing to forgive her own family for it, why not for Behroze's? Specially when Behroze reconnected with his family by getting the worst possible news he could. Ruhi's flaw that pushes her in the darker of the grey category is her victim complex. And the narrative does call her out on it. That in the list of people who made mistakes, Ruhi is not excluded from it. A lot of Ruhi's anger and fears are justified but SO MUCH of her actions aren't.

so many harmful stereotypes and mindsets are perpetuated through our dramas and continue to be, and they overwhelmingly treat people who are apprehensive of the harms of certain traditions like judgmental aliens who simply have to meet the right family to come around. it feels like a very naive approach to addressing those apprehensions and the societal concerns at the root of them

Fair point but it doesn't really apply in the case of this show, does it? Ruhi spent her life with a man who belonged to the same society and family whose supposed evil traditions she wanted to "protect" her daughter from? if Behroze turned out to be a decent man, by sheer law of probability his family could also be decent. No. this show only chooses the veil of being apprehensive towards the norm of a certain society to show how a person uses certain stereotypes and prejudices to conveniently stay in their own bubble where they feel safe. as far as themes go, Diyar e Dil was never meant to address these socio-cultural concerns. sure, they were an important plot device but the plot itself was not fully reliant on them. if anything, DeD ended up showing a positive side of the often criticized segment of the society by reiterating that a person's inner goodness or evilness is not defined by which socio-cultural background they belong to.it never made any sweeping statements about how ALL families in ALL over the world are ALL like this. no. it showed a story of this ONE family only with all the mistakes it made and how it worked to rectify them and left it to the audience to learn something from it if they liked it enough.

One of the big takeaways from the show is to judge people by their individual merits, to ponder over their actions not in isolation but within the context of their situation, because that's how one truly knows a person and until you don't know a person..how can you love or hate them? (that's what Faraa confesses no? that how could she hate Wali when she didn't even know him? she always only knew the version of him that was fed to her by people who ALSO didn't know him)

I am someone who was always fond of the story of Diyar e Dil. It's one of my favorite comfort reads by Farhat Ishtiaq. When it was announced that DeD was going to be adapted to screen, i was scared. not always does a book to screen adaptation does the story justice. however, DeD onscreen didn't disappoint. not only the script for TV added more layers and dimensions to the characters and situations, the STORY at its core remained intact. DeD was written always to give the lesson of how ego rots relationships. that while ego can give a temporary satisfaction it's the bonds that tie us which are our salvation. and to make bonds is to abandon the ego. Aga Jaan, Behroze, Ruhi, to an extent Faraa..it was their ego that made them stand on the precipice of disaster. Behroze lost his chance. AJ learned his lessons but not until he faced immense tragedy did he fully embrace it. Ruhi had to fall from the cliff into the mouth of tragedy to learn the lesson but she got rescued midway. And Faraa was lucky enough to learn it while she had the time and she stepped away from danger. I see DeD as a story like this. Hence, the flaws that it has become not wholly ignorable but they lose their ability to overpower the heart this story has. and the story has its heart in the right place.

maybe I am the odd one out here but I judge a drama (desi dramas more specifically) based on what it intends to be and how it presents those intentions. everything else is secondary. convince me on the intention and convince me that the methods chosen to present that intention are in tandem with each other and be very CLEAR about them - you'd have my attention. this works across all genres for me. I lose my interest when i see discrepancies in the intention and the presentation. which is why I have dropped shows after being hyped about them to the skies (Tere Bin/Pyari Mona) and which is why I have gotten back on board on shows that previously lost me (Yunhi). Diyar e Dil had the intention and presentation decided right from the beginning and it very clearly stayed on the path. did it have to rely on some plot conveniences? of course it did, it had no other choice (like for the longest time I was a staunch Moiz supporter and only until he fully showed his ugliness did i start to hate him...his villanness which seems obvious now in hindsight broke my heart {despite also knowing Moiz was a bad guy in the novel as well like wow ajeeb dimag chalta tha tab mera dkjaehakjsdhawea} but it was necessary for the plot so contrived it might be..i accepted it) would i like to change things about it? sure! which drama is so wholly satisfying that it leaves the audience with no ground to transform it? it's just that there's something so fulfilling about this story and how it's told that I keep coming back to it again and again even if its to say the same praises and air the same grievances again and again.

#diyar e dil #type: opinion #pakistani drama #i hope i was able to answer this ask completely #as you can see when it comes to DeD i LOVE to talk #and when I TALK i end up going idhar udhar and often lose the track of my thoughts #hence.....this.#edit to add: Faraa and Ruhi did have agency though. Ruhi chose her agency to abuse Faraa. Faraa chose her agency to go back to haveli.#an argument can be made that Faraa only went cuz of the contract and the promise of the divorce #but the show took its time to emphasize that Faraa went there because in her heart she WANTED to go there #Faraa remembering her father's words that between the head&heart..choose what your heart says #Faraa's heart yearned for her family..for her father..Faraa's heart was always soft towards AJ and it was that heart that made her take #the chance to be with him #had it been her head at play here she wouldn't have been so vulnerable with AJ within a few days of being with him #yehi baat toh Wali ki bhi samajh mein nahin arahi thi #and he had taunted her for being a good actor #FUCK I NEED TO START ON THE REWATCH ASAP #manhoos twt :@#mood hi kharab kiya hua hai

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