Every line below lives inside a real book by a Pakistani author. Read the quote, meet the book — and take the story home.
“My breath slowly became stable, and all of a sudden, the power was out; darkness flooded the room.”

“Balkh is a very old city - Historians have referred to this city as Um-ul-Bilad or ‘The Mother of All Cities’, however, these days, it has lost all its grandeur.”

“Where strength is concerned, symbolized within silence.In the renewal that springs each spring, it blooms anew.”

“This tendency is not merely a symptom of ignorance, but a reflection of how the human mind actually functions.”

“Even in our modern age, with all our machines and science, nature and life can still surprise us in ways we cannot explain.”

“Souls are constantly travelling from one place to another, a condition synonymous with immigrants’ patterns of life.”

“Tired but determined, the family set out once again, this time carrying the fragile hope of a true home.”

“For the One who sees every tear,hears every whisper,and never tires of my return.To the One who held meeven when I didn't know I was being held.”

“The silence I once used to stay safe became something else entirely, a weapon, a boundary, and a tool.”

“Retail traders often think the market is “out to get them” because their stops get triggered just before the move goes in their direction.”

Our authors, in their own words and in the press.
Aysha Khalid is a Turkish poet, she does not believe in the boundaries of language to express herself or her imagination. That’s the reason, she has chosen a Pakistani publishing company ‘Daastan’ to publish her collection of poems.
Six Murders in Seattle is a marvel of these superbly talented writers. In this book, they narrate a full suspense story about six back-to-back murders in a city called Seattle, and when the crime department could not able to handle this same pattern of murders, they asked for the officer, whose reputation is worse than criminals, as a last try to solve this mystery of murders.
ہر کتاب کا ایک خانہ ادھورا ہوتا ہے اور اس ادھورے کونے کو قاری اپنے تصور کے رنگوں سے بھر دیتا ہے۔ بہت سی باتیں ان کہی رہ جاتی ہیں مگر سننے والا ان ان کہے الفاظ کا بھی مفہوم اخذ کرلیتا ہے اور اسی طرح بہت سی کہانیاں نامکمل ہوتی ہیں مگر دیکھنے والے کی نگاہ اسے مکمل کر دیتی ہے۔یہ کتاب ناتمام قصوں اور کہانیاں کا گھر ہے اور انھیں مکمل کرنے کا اختیار قاری کا تصور محفوظ رکھتا ہے۔
Interview with author Faizan Jalal sharing insights on his book, inspiration, writing journey, and experience with publishing.
ناصر خان نے اس کتاب میں عمدہ اشعار بھی قلم بند کیے ہیں۔ ناصر خان کے اشعار میں تعلیم کے حوالے سے غیر معمولی جوش و خروش پایا جاتا ہے۔ ان کا شعری اسلوب بےحد رواں اور منفرد ہے۔ اس کتاب میں ان کی یہی خوبی نمایاں ہے
Read our exclusive interview with Alesha Faraz, exploring her life, experiences, & journey behind publishing her book "The crossing" with us.
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Daastan, founded on the very notion of being able to tell your stories by putting one's word out there in the world as a whole, becoming a part of this universe; materializes its principles through the journey of thousands of authors we have published. One such journey is that of Mahnoor Kareem, a teenager from Rawalpindi who grew up aspiring to be an exceptional author and chose to become one of them. From finishing a book in a single day to becoming the author of one, she is a treasured Daastan-published author. In an interview, she revealed that her father used to write short stories for so