REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Shahid Khan,

As you know, all my liquid funds have been frozen in the Habib Bank owing to the liquidation proceedings being undertaken by the Government. I shall gladly extend any loan to your friend as soon as the Government refund of money to the bank’s creditors.

Yours sincerely,

Sohail.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Mohammad Mian,

Thanks for your mind remembrance. While it is snowing outside I am here as snug as a rose in my blanket beside a golden fire. I wish you were here to write some poetry on Sawat in winter. Want to come! Can’t come! Life has its demands even under the blanket of snow! Hope you are all O.K.

Yours lovingly,

Zafar.

9_ Jinnah Road,

Murree.

February 7,1994.

RENEWING RELATIONSHIPS

72, Roshan Ara Road,

Karachi-29.

January 19,1994.

Dear Zafar,

Much water has flowed under the bridges of the Jhelum and the Sind since I last heard from you. A snow wave is here, snow must be there in Murree also. Why not spend a month with us here in the plains? Write, when are you coming?

Yours sincerely,

Mohammad Mian.

INFORMAL REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Mr. Rehman,

How nice it would have been if we had known of your Dinner Invitation a week earlier! As it is, our seats have already been reversed by the Shalimar Express for Karachi and, if cancelled, somebody will be disappointed at the other end. Thanking your all the same.

Yours sincerely,

Salamat Ullah khan.

INVITATION TO MARRIAGE

Dear Bhatti,

You will hardly believe that I am going to absent myself from work on the 20th March on account of a marriage. I have never before absented myself from work in order to attend a marriage but this time I just can’t help it, because it’s my own marriage that I have to attend. As we have always lived and worked like twins, you will also have to absent yourself from your office and be my bottle-holder in this great boxing bout of life! More when he meet.

Yours sincerely,

Sarfraz.