REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Miss Huma,

I regret to inform you that I am running short of funds in the current month and find it rather hard to fulfil my promise at the moment. Could you inform me again, or pay me a visit early next month? I shall keep ready for you the maximum I can spare out of my family budget.

Yours sincerely,

Deba Gilani.

INVITATION TO A COMMITTEE MEETING

Riaz Literary Society

A meeting of the Executive Committee of riaz Literary Society will be held on Monday, the 14th July, 1993 in the village hall.

Agenda:

  1. Minutes of the last meeting.
  2. Presentation of the Budget.
  3. Programme for the utilisation of the Library Fund.

You are requested to attend.

Hony. Secretary

(N.B.No reply be sent if the addressee is able to attend. Apology must be sent to Hony. Secy. of the Society otherwise).

INVITATION TO A BIRTHDAY DAY

White House.

Urdu Bazar,

Lahore.

February 10, 1993.

Dear Brother,

Please do not fail to visit us on February 22, 1993, the first birthday of our son Akhtar. I hope you will oblige us by your presence in the morning and make it a point to stay on till lunch.

Yours,

Razia.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Sister,

Thanks for your kind invitation. Also accept my congratulations. I feel I am too old to attend birth-day ceremonies now. I sincerely hope that you would not treat my absence as an act of discourtesy and bad manners. May God grant “Baby” (Do please communicate to me his new name) a long a prosperous life.

Yours,

Sajid Ali.

NEGATIVE REPLY

Dear Shabaz,

They say when a jackal is doomed to die, it runs towards the city. I don’t think I can live in a village. It is like dying like a jackal. I want to die like a lion in my office here fighting all the files of corruption.

Yours sincerely,

Chaudhry.

COUNTER REPLY

Dear Chaudhry,

Did you mean files of corruption or files of corruption? Neither you nor I can take corruption out of files. And all the files are buries in them. Let a tiger not break a fly on the wheel !

Yours sincerely,

Shabaz.

INVITATION TO AN EID MILADUNNABI

Dear Arish,

It is two years now that you were at Lahore. Please do not fail to visit Lahore during the coming Eid-Milad-un-Nabi holidays. We will be expecting you. As it is going to be the marriage of Deba on the occasion, most of our relatives will be in Lahore and at that will save your time and money which otherwise you would have to spend by visiting them individually int he punjab. When are you arriving here?

Yours sincerely,

Adnaan.

REPLY IN THE AFFIRMATIVE

Dear Adnaan,

Your idea of inviting us to Lahore on the occassion of Eid-i-Meladun-Nabi is grand. What should we bring from here for the marriage of Diba. We shall inform you of our arrival by telegram.

Yours sincerely,

Arif.