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In the afternoon butt and
both of them went towards home. Again they were standing at the platform of
metro
at Strasbourg St. Denis.
Metro came and they entered in metro. They had to change metro at Republique.
They got off at republique
stop and from there they took metro no 11. The second stop of metro no 11 was
their stop. Butt sahib said,
"Only two stops are remaining. We will have to get off at Belleville stop
than my
house is nearby".
Adam and daowd were very
curious about house where butt was staying. As they got off from metro and
came out from the metro
station. They started walking on the road. Adam got shocked that at the brink
of
pavement there were small
pieces of clothes. The material was like jute clothes. With small patches the
water
was coming out and it was
clear crystal water. Anyhow Adam didn't ask any question. Italy was very
beautiful
but Paris has its own beauty.
They were walking on a wide road but all of a sudden they entered in a small
alley way. Than after couple
of minutes they entered in a building and started ascending stairs of that
building.
They smell clamminess and
damp on the railing of the stairs. Adam touched the grill but as his hand went
towards grill he felt
clamminess and he removed his hand swiftly. There was weird pong and stink in
the
stairs. As they were
ascending the stairs they smelt this reek and odour. At last they arrived at
the last floor.
They thought it must be a big
house of three or four rooms. When they arrived in front of apartment they saw
ten or twelve pair of shoes
of different kinds. Butt wanted to open the door but the door was open. Someone
yelled from inside,
"come in Butt. You are with guests". They entered inside the flat.
Butt sahib entered in the
bathroom and Adam started
observing the room. In French language this kind of flat or apartment is call
attique. This means the last
floor flat and usually they have inclined windows and the roof is very low.
Usually you can find these
kinds of flats on low rent. This room had roof like, he used to draw in his
drawing
book when he was in school.
The roof was very low and inclined and there were two windows in it. They
were half open. It wasn't a
room, it was like a museum. It was one bed room flat. It has kitchen, bathroom,
and
in the middle of the room
there was double bed and around the bed there were lots of decoration pieces.
There
was television, video
cassette player and audio cassette player in one corner of the room and next to
that there
were lots of video cassette.
Where the roof was ending in the middle it was divided with piece of bed sheet
and it was a nice try to make
small room in this room which was already very small. Behind the curtain there
were two mattresses. Adam
thought of big houses luminous houses in Arezzo and this was like fowl house.
When one can't have any
choice than he has to accept whatever it is, he has to suffer and bear because
this is
his own choice. Neither
Europeans force him to come to their country and live in small houses like this
ten or
more than ten person nor is
he living in such a worse condition that he should leave his country. This is
all
because he looks at others
that they have been to Europe so he decides that i should go there. This is
same like
sheep follow heard of sheep
wherever they go. Sheep doesn't even think either she is right or wrong. If
someone from someone's
village or area comes to Europe and when he goes back with sunglasses, European
clothes and credit cards. He
tells them wonderful and voluptuous stories. After hearing these stories every
young lad wants to go to
there. It doesn't matter he lives in a village or in a big city. He will sale
his land, take
loan and pay big amount to
come to Europe. When he comes here than he finds that his language, culture and
identity has been change.
Exactly same thing was happening with Adam and Daowd.
As they arrived in Paris they
felt that Paris's environment is better than Italy. People had little bit
awareness.
The person who welcomed
wholeheartedly when they came, he offered them tea and butt sahib went to bed
for siesta. Adam and daowd
went behind the curtain right at that place where there were two mattresses.
They
were very tired so in a while
they got sleep. When they woke up, there was no one in the house. You can't
name it house, it was fowl
house and they named it apartment. In every corner of the room there was
something, shirts, jeans,
socks, shoes and some tissue papers. One thing was different from Greece and
Italy.
There were different tooth
brushes and shaving machines. There were some bottles of perfumes and eau de
toilettes. Some of them were
empty and some of them were half full. One corner was for shower and next to it
there was water closet
(W.C.). Wash room was very small. It was that small that it was impossible to
stand
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straight otherwise you hit
the roof. In the room there was cooker (cooking range) and next to it was
washing
machine and wash basin, this
was for dish washing. There wasn't lacking anything. There was no trend of roti
(chapatti) making because all
of them were working in restaurant. They used to make curry of different things
and used to eat it with
baguette (its French long bread).
Both of them didn't know that
what they should do. Daowd said, "We will apply political asylum
here". Adam
said nothing. All of a sudden
they heard; someone opened the door, a young guy entered in the room. His
jeans was worn and torn from
different places. He was wearing long boots like army man but they were not
black they had beige colour
or may be camel colour. It was easily to notice that he was very tired and
weary.
As he entered he started
taking off his shoes but wanted that he should take off jeans without taking
off shoes
which was impossible. So he took
off shoes first than jeans. He said hello slightly and entered in bathroom.
Adam and daowd didn't mind
because now they were habitual of these things. They knew that after a little
while he will ask them the
same question where you from. What's the name of your village? The guy came out
from bathroom and he was
drying his hair with towel. He was wearing track suits pyjama. He started
walking
here and there. Finally Adam
broke the ice, "could you please tell me where is onion, so i will cook
something". He said,
"No no, there is no need of this. I will cook myself".
Adam and Daowd had enough
money that they were able to stay in Paris without job, including mess, metro's
ticket and other daily
expenses. They used to speak with butt about these things that they want to pay
rent and
mess bill, this and that but
he used to refuse to take it.
Butt sahib found a job for
daowd as a dish washer and it was his duty to help chef as well. As Adam knew
French so for him he found
job as waiter. Butt sahib bound them and strictly said, "Don't tell anyone
that you
don't have documents. If
someone asks, tell him that you have Italian documents. We didn't find any job
in
Italy so we came here. Always
keep your Carta d'Identita with you. If police asks you about documents, you
show them this card. Usually
they don't check in computer. Don't be garrulous and make fun of any one. If
someone asks about you, tell
him that you are my relative and it has been many years that we are living in
Europe. Until unless you
don't get first pay, there is no need for paying anything. I will buy you
metro's pass.
When i came to Paris we used
to go to Pakistani chowk. It's the name of one corner in Strasbourg st. Denis
where Pakistani used to stand
for job and they name it Pakistani chowk. Near to this chowk there were many
brothel houses. It was kind
of red light area. This road is as busy as it was busy ten years before. This
is
famous cloth merchants and
most of merchants are Jew. They used to call us to load and unload piles of
cloths. It was same like
Pakistan, you might have seen in all big cities of Pakistan in main bazaars
masons,
painters and different
labourer wait there with their tools for job. Anyway this is history now, by
the way
Paris's atmosphere in different".
He addressed Adam, "Adam sahib, you are very lucky that you have learnt
French in Pakistan. You can't
even imagine that people are living here from last fifteen years and they can't
speak French. Anyway this is
their lethargy". He continued his lecture and said, "Don't tell your
secret to
anyone. If you have done
matriculation you should tell that you have done graduation. Don't tell anyone
that
you left Pakistan because of
poverty and hunger. You are here to earn money. You invent any excuse that you
were being condemned of 302
(which is code of legislation if you kill someone and the sentence for that is
life
imprisonment or to be hanged
till death). Your family forced you to marry someone or you had great passion
and craze for Europe".
Adam said, "Why we need to lie"?
Butt sahib felt very bad
inwardly but he didn't show that. He said, "It's very important and
necessary. It will be
difficult for you to survive.
The people who are working in Passage Brady, most of them are relatives of
ministers, member of national
assembly (M.N.A.)'s chairman or prime minister. One is superior to other. No
one will tell you that he
belongs to ordinary or poor family. But they don't mind cleaning dishes for
3500
French francs. When they get
papers and they will go to Pakistan and they will tell everyone that they have
their own business.
Especially if someone comes from Paris people receive him like a prince. The
relatives
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and families who don't want
to give even sleeper of their daughter. They by themselves will ask him to
marry
with their daughter. They
will flatter him. You have seen where i live. It's a small house, one bed room
flat.
Two other boys are with me.
You know how much rent i pay for this fowl's house. Two thousand five
hundred francs and if you
include gas, water and electricity bills it becomes four thousand francs.
Metro's
ticket, food stuff, clothes
this and that. I regularly send money to my family. If we don't send money to
our
families they will suffer.
The immigrants who live in European countries there life style is different
than those
immigrants who live in Arab
countries. They live in Islamic countries. If they deport them they can go
there
paying little money but if
they deport us it's nearly impossible to come back. Or they have legal
documents so
they can go yearly but for
us, it's not like that. So it's my suggestion that whenever you find an
occasion to
make papers, don't miss it.
In restaurant's field it's easy to find a girl. You must have certain things
ready all
the time. Like birth
certificate, unmarried certificate, character certificate and they should be
attested from
foreign office. You may need
these certificates and papers at any moment. Sometime due to little mistakes
you miss great chances.
Anyway i should go now. I have to start work".
In Passage Brady Adam was
standing, wearing black slack, white shirt and black tie, black shoes and he
was
hawking, "menu midi 49,
and menu midi 49. In Passage Brady from 11:30 to 14:00 they hawk like this.
There
are few people at this time
but there are some foreigners and tourists but they don't pay any attention.
When there are no customers
the guys who are standing outside the restaurants they make fun of each other.
They taunted Adam as well but
he didn't respond. In this passage there were some guys from Arezzo as well.
They used to come to this
passage for lunch because they were working in Paris. Some of them were here to
see their relatives.
In Paris people found jobs
area wise, where they belonged. People from Jhelum they found jobs in
restaurant
field. People from Sargodha
and Mandi Bhauuddin were taking contract of painting buildings. Some of them
were in electricity work.
People from Rawalpindi, Gujar Khan, Rawat and Jhamat they were in different
fields. Some of them were
salesman at Jews shops in Strasbourg st. Denis. Adam didn't find anyone from
Sindh and Baluchistan during
his stay in Europe. There must have been someone from Sindh but from
Baluchistan, it was nearly
impossible. Daowd used to clean dishes and help the big chef as well. He
stopped
crying because now he
understood that this is called Europe.
Restaurant used to be very
busy on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In these days he used to wash piles of
dishes
and helping chef. Adam used
to do services in hall as a waiter. Both of them were getting same salary.
Sometime they used to get tip
as well. They used to go home by foot in half an hour. They used to come and
go through same route but
they were lucky that not body checked them. No asked them about documents. In
all European countries police
has right to check the documents except United Kingdom of Great Britain. In
other European countries if
police suspect, he can ask anybody for documents but in Great Britain they are
not
allowed to ask such
questions. They used to have day off on Monday.
After few months experience
both of them were expert in their departments. There was a time when dish
washing was such a curse for
daowd and now he used to wash piles of dishes quickly. Apart from dish
washing he started learning
making curries as well which were called Indian and Pakistani dishes. About
this
the head chef never helped
him. It was daowd's duty to clean kitchen after closing the restaurant. So he
used
to do this job as well.
Daowd's curiosity was to that how the head chef use spices for curries, he
wanted to
know the recipes and quantity
of spices for different curries. Daowd used to check the spice boxes where they
kept the spices and he
understood by the depth of boxes the quantity of spices used by head chef.
Daowd got
success by this trick and
head chef thought that daowd haven't learnt anything because head chef whenever
he
use spices for curries, he
never showed daowd the quantity of spices. He used to send him somewhere or ask
for cleaning some pan or pot.
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After three or four year's
hard life daowd understood very well that this is the real face of Europe. But
Adam
was still following his rules
and principles, like if you apply political asylum; its shame is disrespectful
for
your country. Paper marriage
causes you guilty conscious. At last Adam had to leave the job because of his
attitude. He used to discuss
with customers during service and the restaurant owner never liked it.
According
to him this thing wasn't good
for business. Especially on Fridays and Saturdays the owner indicated him
warned him not to do this but
this was Adam's habit. Lastly the owner spoke with butt. Adam never did this
purposely. Whenever he has
seen some space or gap during discussion, he tried to fill it up. He wanted to
clear the concept of
customer. He wasn't able to accept this that Pakistan is the part of India.
Pakistan has his
own identity and
distinctiveness. He used to make maps of Pakistan. He never liked Pakistani
politician and
its political system but he
never said anything against Pakistan. He always tried to explain everybody that
Pakistan is thousand times
better than many countries. It's independent country.
He used to start discussion
because of only one phrase when some customer used to say, "where is
Pakistan, is
it an Indian province".
These phrases were enough to start discussion. Adam used to start with these
phrases
that Pakistan is an
independent country ad it has been fifty years that this country is on the
world map. Still
lots of people don' know
that. Its same Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia that they are divided into
different
small countries, like Makendonija
(Macedonia), Jugoslavia (Yugoslavia), Bosnia Erzegovina, Hrvatska
(Croazia) slovenija
(Slovenia) and Czec Republic then Montenegro, Lithuania, Albania, Latvia,
Belarus and
Estonia.
These all are small states
and during the time of Ottoman Empire (Khilafat-e-Usmania) they were divided
into
small tribes. Since ages they
were fighting among each other. Who had power he ruled other tribe or tribes.
Adam used to start discussion
with Pakistani politics and he used end at European politics. During service
whenever he starts discussion
he did both things together service and discussion. Where ever he used end the
discussion he restart from
there. Like, he used to say that. Whoever had the power he suppressed others,
sometime Hungarian king,
sometime Romanian king, sometime Bulgarian king and sometime Austrian king.
In the 14th century when
Ottoman Empire started advancing towards these states and tribes, the Jews and
Christians just to save their
properties they became Muslim, although they were not forced by Ottoman kings.
When ottoman kings conquered
these states so according to Islam law all non Muslim had to pay tax which
was only for non Muslims and
it was called Jazia (it's a tax that provides you protection , either of your
property or life) the people
who became Muslim they were exempt of this tax. So lots of Christians and Jews
became Muslim just to save
tax. So respectively the ottoman kings, descendents they got married without
any
religious discrimination with
Christian and Jew girls. On one side it played important role politically.
Like Sultan Orian married
with Byzantine king john VI Contazuzenus's daughter Theodora. Sultan orian and
Theodora's son sultan murad
first married with Byzantine and Bulgarian princes. Behzad first married with
Serbia's king's daughter
Despina. These marriages brought Christianity in there palaces. They didn't
even
enter in their private life;
they got important and selected posted in their kingdom.
Adam used to start with
something else and he used to end up somewhere else. His main intention always
had
been different. He wanted to
separate religion from politics. According to Adam religion and politics are
two
different things. Pakistan
came into being by the name of religion. Muslims of India dreamt about a
separate
homeland and they use
religion as tool in fact deep down, their intentions were different. He wanted
to tell the
customers that where ever
someone felt that he can take advantage of religion he did it. Either it was
Ottoman
Empire or it was Pakistan
movement. After debating about European politics he used to come back on Indian
and Pakistani politics. He
used to tell them, it's true Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Tibet,
Ceylon and India these all
countries were part of India but every country has its own importance and
prestige.
Every country has paid its
independence, prestige's price. There were independence movements in every
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country wherever goras were
ruling. On the other hand wherever goras raised their flag, in all those places
Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs
Buddhists and Nepali Gorkhas gave their life for goras. In First World War
goras
forced Muslim to against
Muslims and promised them for independence. In Second World War they promised
not even Muslims, but to
Hindus, Sikhs, Nepali Gorkhas that fight for us, in return we will give you
independence. Lots of people
lost their lives. If you visit European graveyards you will find many brothers
who left their sisters in their
country, many husbands who left their wives and many sons who left their
mothers. They were hoping
that they will come back but they lost their lives. They are buried in European
graveyards.
Today Europeans look at
Pakistanis, Bengalis and Indian with tilted eye. This is their cheapness. In
Second
World War when German army
was ruining and dragging whole Europe, at that time these Indian, Bengali,
Pakistani and Nepalese were
fighting on front. Goras were only ordering and commanding. It was Italy or
France, either it was Egypt
or it was Russia. European people don't read their history properly or they
mess it.
The young European generation
only know this that American came to save them from German and the truth
is that Americans came to
stop Russian army who were entering in Europe from other end. Because as
German army started
retreating back, Russian army started advancing towards Europe. Today any
European
can easily say that where is
Pakistan? Dove Pakistan (in Italian dove is where)? Pakistan est où?
If they ask their
forefathers, they will tell them that these Indians, Bengalis, Pakistanis and
Nepalese came to
these European countries to
protect them. Most of the soldiers who came with British army, they didn't go
back. Some of them lost their
lives and it happened like this when there was no proper arrangement to send
the soldiers back. They were
being killed and were called martyred of Second World War and were buried in
European graveyards. Some of
them were shown lost in British army's record.
Their forefathers will tell
them that we aren't foreigner for you.
Most of the customer used to
like whatever Adam used to say them but his discussion never liked his owner.
Adam started his own
business. He was standing near Arc di Triomphe with his tape recorder and
dancing
couple. It was a couple of
Mickey Mouse. He has Spider Man as well. In the month of august this place used
to be very busy because of
tourists.
The metro stop near arc di
triomphe is called arc di triomphe as well. By the way this arc di triomphe is
called
Charles de Gaule Etoile as
well. Twelve roads pass through this arc like in Faisalabad's Ghantaghar (watch
tower) eight roads passes.
Through this metro stop
groups and hordes of tourists come out and the first thing they see is Charles
de
Gaule Etoile. In French
Etoile means star. If you see this place you will find a big star around this
arc.
Through this arc twelve roads
pass. Which are avenue de Friedland, avenue Hoche, avenue de Wagram,
avenue McMahan, avenue
Carnot, avenue de la Grande Armee, avenue d'Iene, avenue Kleber, avenue
Marceau and most famous is
avenue des Champs Elyse's.
Adam started selling dancing
couples and spider man next to arc di triomphe and he selected a big glass
building. He had two
qualities of these dancing couples. One was cheap one and only function when
you buy
and other was a little
expensive but better. He called them first grade and second grade, one was real
and other
was fake.
As tourists came close to
him, He used to shout in English and French as well. Ten franc, dix franc, ten
franc,
dix franc, he used to through
spider man as high as he can on that glass building. They had special kind of
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gum on their arms and legs.
They spider man used to fall like that that some soldiers are doing their
military
training. He wasn't only one
who was selling these things. There were others as well like Moroccans,
Pakistani and Bengalis. Some
of them were selling peanuts, some of them were selling photos and some of
them were selling umbrellas.
Some tourists used to taunt and ridicule at them when they came to know that
they are from Pakistan or
India, "look they have so much poverty in their countries that they are
bound to do
these petty and trivial jobs.
On the other hand they have nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs".
Adam had a folding stool. He
used to open his folding stool like conjuror and sit on it. When customers came
close to him he used say in
loud voice about dancing couples and spider man. He was only scared of police
other than that there was no
fear of anyone. Over hear he wasn't bound of anyone. No boss or owner. He was
his own boss. He was allowed
to give lectures to tourist. He used to feel that he is breathing in fresh and
free
air.
Today he was sitting on his
folding stool and he drowned in deep memories. He started thinking that he used
to talk about Jean Paul
Sartre philosophy. He used to discuss existentialism. He used to converse about
Greek
philosophers, Latin
philosophers, German philosophers, French philosophers and English philosophers
as
well. He was expert in
explaining all these philosophies. One year was left. He would have completed
his
masters. He read about
westerns philosophers and about eastern philosophers as well. On one side he
studied
Aristotle, Plato, Dante,
Montaigne, Beckon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Marx, Russell and Sartre. On other side
he
studied Imam Ghazali, Jalal
Uddin Rumi, Jami, Farabi, Bu Ali Sina, Ibn-e-Rushd, Ibn-e-Khaldon, Omar
Khayyam, imam wasique. He
knew that Muslim philosophers and scholars played important role in European
renaissance. They have
translated most of the golden books of Greek philosophers in Arabic and Spanish
and
from Spain they came to other
European countries. The modern philosophy of France was based upon Muslim
philosophies. The famous
novel of Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe and he got the main theme
of this novel from a Spanish
novel which was written by Mohammad Tufail and it was called Ibn-e-Yaqzan.
Spanish dictionary was
compiled by Muslims and the definite and indefinite articles came from Arabic
in
Latin originated languages.
He used to think that he is
in Saint Germaine du Pres and sitting in Cafe deux Maggots or sitting in Cafe
du
Flore. He meets with Jean
Paul Sartre and Simon de Beauvoir.
These cafes are famous for
jean Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Prevert, Apollinaire, Albert Camus,
Picasso,
Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot,
André Gide, Fernand Léger, André Breton, and Earnest Hemingway.
At Cafe deux Maggots, Jean
Paul Sartre and Simon de Beauvoir used to meet at the same place and same
table. They met each other at
this cafe for forty years. They had love affair but they were never married.
Sartre
was busy in working for his
school of thought existentialism and Beauvoir dedicated her whole life studying
and working for feminism.
"Attention monsieur!
S'il vous plait" (attention Mr. If it's pleases you).
As he heard this voice Adam
came back to real life. A police man was standing. He fished out his Carta
d'Identita from his pocket
and showed them. They had a glance and gay him back his Carta d'Identita and
then
they took everything even his
folding stool. They gave him a receipt and said, "Come to the police
station pay
fine and take your things
back". Usually when police come they disappear in streets. There is always
some
informer but today he didn't
find time to escape. He threw that receipt in nearest bin. He was glad that
they
haven't taken him to the
police station. Otherwise it would have been more complicated.
He was working on very famous
road. Champs Elysees, Elysian Fields. Like there is place in Karachi called
Lalo Khet, (lalo's fields)
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There was time when there was
no arc di triomphe here. There were beautiful fields. In 1806 Napoleon
Bonaparte hired famous
architect Chalgrin Jean François to make an arch over here. On 15th august
1806
foundation stone of this arch
was laid. Chalgrin got the inspiration of this arch from roman arch which was
built in Rome and you can
still see its ruins in Rome. French famous and renowned poet, novelist and
short
story writer Victor Hugo who
has written Notre Dame du Paris and Les Miserable, his mausoleum is there as
well.
It has been three or four
years that daowd and Adam were together since they left Pakistan. But since
they
were in Paris, Daowd's
attitude has been change. He used to act strange with Adam. Ehtram ul Haque
Butt
convinced Doawd that if you
want to become a successful in your life you have to get rid of Adam. Neither
he
will achieve anything in life
nor will he help you. You willn't achieve what you have dreamt. It was butt's
philosophy that people who
studies a little more, they become lunatics. They always talk about principle
and
rules, codes and ethics.
Daowd just needed an excuse.
Now his desires to become rich were at their peak. Paris's glittering lights
and
perfumes changed his point of
view about life. Now he was head chef of drawadians. He learnt everything. He
knew how to make different
curries, making things in tandoor like chicken tandoori, cheese nan, chutneys,
ghulab jamun (it's kind of
sweet). His father was doing same job. He was selling dahi bhallay. The difference
was money. Daowd used to earn
80 to 90 thousand rupees. Plus tip as well which they used to divide among
each other. He used to eat in
restaurant but without knowing the owner because they were not allowed to eat.
During this period he learnt
all tricks.
As ehtram ul haque butt got
carte sejour (permit of stay) he started running to and fro to open his own
restaurant. He was completely
successful in his plan. The most important thing for the restaurant was a good
cook. For this purpose he prepared
doawd. To find waiters, assistant cook, dish washer, it wasn't a big
problem.
Cook was ready and it was
Butt's plan to find some girl for Daowd for paper marriage. When daowd will
have
carte sejour (permit of
stay), He will change the owner so Daowd will become the owner of the
restaurant and
butt will start getting
shomage (social security. its money you can get from state when you don't have
job).
Behind the curtain he will
play the game. Doawd will be like a puppet because didn't nothing about
documentation. He didn't know
the language and he hasn't got that much confidence and sense that he could
understand official
technicalities. This was main conflict between daowd and Adam. Adam was annoyed
that
daowd hasn't learnt language
and never tried to know about paper work. Whenever he needed, he asked
someone to accompany him.
Even to receive parcel from post office he needed someone. On the other hand
Adam never had any problem.
He always felt that he is living in pairs since ages.
Ehtram ul Haque Butt took an
old restaurant on two contract basis in Passage Brady. He appointed daowd the
head chef of restaurant. He
convinced and persuaded daowd that this is your own restaurant. Since Daowd
came to Paris he stopped
sending money to Pakistan. His father told him that you don't need to send us
money. Save your money and
try to achieve your goal. So he had sixty thousand French francs saving. Daowd
contribute these sixty
thousand francs for this restaurant and butt took loan from bank as well the
only
problem Daowd had, were
papers. Butt solves this problem as well. As Butt got carte sejour, he gave
divorce
to Marie Antoine. Butt
thought if she does paper marriage with daowd, like this daowd will have
documents.
For this purpose Marie Antoine
was ready. She was concerned with money. This was her business. In fact she
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wasn't like this, drugs made
her like this.
Ehtram ul haque butt spoke
with solicitor, so he said as daowd hasn't entered in France legally, which
means
he entered in France without
visa so he will have to apply for political asylum. Usually they refuse case in
six
months but as we will submit
his case for political asylum. We will get the date for marriage from registrar
office. He must have his
birth certificate, character certificate and unmarried certificate ready and it
must be
attested from Pakistani
foreign office. When these things are ready, rest of things, i will take care.
Daowd
showed him these three paper
which were attested by Pakistani foreign office. When he saw, he said they are
valid for six months. So you
should have new one. As we will start paper work, by the time we will present
our case, they will be
expired. Daowd was doing whatever butt was saying. He was like puppet. Adam's
sixth
sense was intimating him that
something is going wrong. He knew that in this world no can be that much
honest with someone like butt
was with daowd. He hasn't said anything to daowd. He thought about his
friendship. So he kept quite.
Butt offered him waiter's job but Adam refused his offer. First of all daowd
should have asked him for
this job and secondly they haven't taken his opinion or discussed with him.
Adam
smelt something. He knew that
a simple going to be ruined. He was unable to help him because circumstances
were unfavourable. Daowd
became blind because he wanted to become rich man. He wanted to become big
man.
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Adam was carrying paintings
in rue di Rivoli. He was walking to and fro. He was unable to sell even a
single
painting. He was very hopeful
that he will be able to sell the van Gogh's sunflower painting but there was no
achievement. He was very
knackered, so he sat in a small coffee shop. He was sitting outside and having
his
coffee. As he was enjoying
his coffee he saw a sign board of a shop. This was called Aryans. He finished
his
coffee speedily and left the
money under ashtray took his paintings bag and entered in Aryans. The shop was
full of antique and precious
things. At one side the statue of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha on other side the
statues of Saraswati,
Parwati, Kali Mata. There were Ghanesh, Indar, Seta, Ram and Lakhsman's statues
as
well. On the walls the
paintings of the maharajas of Rajasthan were hanging in golden and expensive
frames.
Adam got stunned and
traumatized. On every corner of the shop cameras were fixed. With them the
owner
was able to see what is going
on in every corner of the shop. He was lost in shop's labyrinth; all of a
sudden a
very beautiful lady came in
front of Adam. She must have been forty years old or a little bit more. She was
wearing a long frock up to
knees and she was wearing a leather belt around her belly. The neck of the
frock
was wide open so due to belt
and open neck her breasts were coming out. It seemed like that they were bigger
than what they were. There
was long line between breasts which is called cleavage. She was wearing some
necklace which was made of
some expensive stones of green colour. One of the parts of necklace was inside
the cleavage, must have been
feeling suffocation. She came in front of Adam and said, "Bonjour
monsieur".
Adam forgot every word of
French. He started speaking in English. She was speaking English in different
accent specially when French
speaks English their T and R's pronunciation is different. Adam explained her,
why he was in her shop. He is
painting seller. She wanted to see them. Adam opened his bag quickly and
started showing her
paintings. During conversation that lady asked him are you Indian. Adam told
thousands
of people since he was abroad
that he is Pakistani not Indian but still many people didn't know where
Pakistan
is. Even though media is very
advance now but still some people think Pakistan is the part of India or its
province. Adam said,
"no---- i am Pakistani". That lady said, "I would like to buy
all these paintings". She
paid him double prize. Adam
had profit of three hundred francs. Adam didn't know what she felt about Adam.
She said, "Where you
live"?
Adam responded,
"Belleville"
She said curiously and
inquisitively, "you live on your own or------------------?"
Adam said, "No---i live
with my Pakistani friends".
She said, "What are you
doing tonight"?
Adam said, "nothing
special....... i will clear my accounts for whom i sell these paintings
than"
She said, "Would you
like to have dinner with me tonight"?
Adam got perplexed and
shocked because these type of situation you find in Mustansar Hussain Tarrar's
travelogues. Like "she
put her hand on my shoulder and that's how our story started" as you know
everyone
isn't Tarrar sometime Atta ul
Haque Qasmi refused to accept the proposal of lady who puts her hand on his
shoulder, "sorry madam i
am not Tarrar". Adam was on the horns of dilemma. He didn't what he should
say.
Finally he accepted her
offer. As Adam said yes that lady said, "I will pick you up".
Adam said, "You
shouldn't do that, i will phone you". Then she gave him an idea, "why
don't you come
quarter Latin. When you are
there, you phone me, i will pick you up from there. Here is my visiting card.
It
has my mobile number. One
thing is very important, dress up nicely.
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Adam was trying to understand
what was going. He didn't know her name. He said good bye. He didn't even
realise that he should read
her name on visiting card. As he came out from Aryans and he started walking
towards chatalet. His boss's
office was here. As he entered in the office he explained him that he sells all
paintings. He kept his profit
and rest of the money gave to boss. He left his office and boss was shouted in
a
loud voice, "What about
tomorrow" but he didn't pay any attention.
He came home. First thing he
did, he shaved twice. He wasn't satisfied so he took razor and did it again. He
checked the smoothness of
face. When he felt his face is as soft as he wanted than he put on after shave
lotion.
Since he was living in Paris,
he knew about fashion, what was suitable, what was Paris style. So he wore a
nice combination, a tie of
floral pattern. He saw himself in mirror many times to confirm that he looking
nice.
Lastly he wore shoes. He
polished them because they were dusty and it was Adam's very bad habit. He used
to polish shoes at eleventh
hour. He used to polish them and due to this he had to wash hands many times to
get rid of shoe polish. He
did the same thing today. He forgot to polish his shoes so he polished them and
due
to that his had were smelly.
To get rid of shoe polish smell he washed his hands many times with soap. When
he was satisfied that there
is no smell of shoe polish so he wore them then he wore Calvin Klein's perfume
ck1. Finally he took his way
to Bellville metro station. It was Friday and metro station was jam pack. Adam
was worried that due to rush
his clothes will be ruined. He was looking in small map that which metro will
be
suitable for him for Quartier
Latin. He had two options. One was, he should have gone to Cluny la Sorbonne
and second was Maubert
Mutualite. He preferred Maubert Mutualite stop. He took metro and got off at
republique and from there he
took metro number 5 and he came to Gare d'Austerlitz. From here he took metro
number 10 and in a little
while he was at maubert mutualite. He came out from metro station and he found
a
telephone cabin. He entered
in the cabin and dialled her number. Adam was still thinking that it might be a
joke and if it's a joke than
it must be joke of the year. As phone was ringing and he was thinking, someone
said from other side,
"allo" in French hello is allo. Adam introduced himself and said,
"I am at Maubert
Mutualite metro
station". He heard from other side, "i am coming in a minute, you
must wait for me there".
In few moments a big black
car stopped in front of him. As Adam saw her, he recognized her. He went
towards car and said,
"Bonsoir". Chauffeur came out from car and opened the door for Adam.
As he opened
the door Adam sat next to
her. They asked each other how everything is. The car passed through two
streets
and entered in Quia da la
Tournelle. Chauffeur got off again from the car and opened the door for them.
The
lady came out first from the
car and than Adam came out as well. The chauffeur went to park the car and they
were standing in front of La
Tour d'Argent. The doorkeeper of the restaurant opened the door for them.
La Tour d'Argent is one of
Paris's old restaurants. The owner of this restaurant is Claude Terrail. This
is the
most expensive restaurant of Paris.
It cost a lot per person. Adam couldn't even imagine coming here.
Both of them sat in a corner
where their table was reserved. That lady broke the ice and said remorsefully,
"i
am sorry, i forgot to ask
your name. What is your name"?
Adam said, "My name is
Adam Khan Chughtai but you can call me Adam and what is yours"?
Lady, "My name is Anna
Marie Arouet da la Fontaine but you can call me Anna".
Since Adam entered in the
restaurant he was perplexedly and confusedly looking at the people who were
moving to and fro in the
restaurant. He had never seen such an environment in his whole life. He started
caparisoning Passage Brady's
restaurants and where he was sitting. La tour d'argent and Passage Brady. As
you entered in passage Brady
the odour of spices enter in your nostril, you see badly drunk people at the
entrance. You see boys are
calling customers. The speciality of Passage Brady is rats. You see them,
running
from here and there freely
like an illegal immigrant get the legal documents and he is moving around
without
any fear. And this restaurant
la tour d'argent. It was quite, nice and clean. The slow music was making the
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environment very romantic.
Anna's family was one of the
richest families of France. She belonged to a very rich Jew family. As she felt
that she is young enough, she
started showing her family that she is adult now. Normally it's quite rare that
Jews and Muslims they change
their religion easily. And in Jews, Ismailis and Parsis families their girls
don't
marry out of family. This is
in Jewish religion that their girls don't sleep with man without marriage. They
spread white bed sheet to
check if the girl was virgin or not. If there are blood marks on sheet it means
she
was virgin otherwise she
wasn't and it was against Jewish religious law. They always find compatible
match
for their daughter as well.
After the Second World War
when Adolf Hitler started torturing Jews of Europe just robed their money,
Anna's family was one of them
who suffered his persecution. As Anna completed her adolescence, her family
started looking for her a
suitable match. They arranged many parties to find her right person and she was
being introduced many boys
but she didn't like anyone. The seed of rebellion was sewed in her personality.
Finally he liked an artist
who used to make sketches and made his living. Anna's family has good
connections
so they bribed him, offered
him money, that artist disappear from the screen, after this incidence Anna
decided not to marry for
whole life. Her parents died unhappily because their daughter wasn't settled.
After
their death Anna was the only
heir. She had everything what her parents had in inheritance. Until now,
whoever comes to her related
with paintings she helps him. Adam was one of them.
Adam told his whole story
honestly. Anna started crying and said, "Jews holocaust was the greatest
disaster of
this earth. Than i thought
about throwing atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was great calamity. But i
think the catastrophes
haven't ended yet. You left your country and you are doing petty jobs because
in your
country the political
situation isn't favourable. You have martial law mostly. You have some dictator
most of
the time. You know that in
Cambodia, people sale their kids, just for the sake of money".
Adam said, "This isn't
shocking thing for me. Nearly every year the sheikhs from united Arab Emerites
they
come to Pakistan and buy
little kids from their parents mostly from Sindh and Bahawalpur. They tie these
kids
on the back of camels and
arrange race of camels. They play special kind of music so camels run fast in
the
desert and above all when
these little kids cry, the camels run faster than before. These sheikhs gamble
on
high level but they use this
cheap way for their pleasure. Quite often some kids who are tied at camel's
back
they die due to terror and
panic but nobody cares.
Both of them were crying when
they left la tour d'argent. As they came out from restaurant, Anna said,
"Would like to come with
me. I live on my own. I have big house". Adam didn't refuse her proposal.
They came towards car.
Chauffeur opened the door for them. As they sat in the car Anna grabbed his
hand
and started rubbing it
slightly. For a while Adam felt that he is male escort or gigolo. The chauffeur
was
driving the car along the
river seine than their car entered in suburbs of Paris. This time Adam forgot
to read
the sign boards. He didn't
know what was going on. The car entered in green acres. He saw couple of
houses.
Finally their car stopped in
front of a very beautiful villa. Chauffeur opened the wrought iron gate with
remote
control. The golden handles
of the gate were scintillating and glittering due to car head lights. Their car
entered inside the villa.
Chauffeur opened the door for them and they entered in the house. As Anna
stepped
in she took a lungful of air.
They were in drawing room. She offered Adam to sit down and then said,
"You
don't drink alcohol. What
should i offer you"?
Adam said, "I have eaten
enough, there no place for more food or liquid in my stomach. She sat next to
him
on divan and they chatted
till late. Later on Anna went to wash room to take shower. Adam was sitting in
drawing room like a fool. After
having shower Anna entered in drawing room. She was wearing very light
dress, she was looking more
beautiful. Then she said, "Go and take shower". She gave him sleeping
suit and
gown as well and said,
"The men's wash room is on that way. It has halal (according to Islamic
principles)
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towel and soap as well. As i
know you are Muslim so i have taken extreme measures about your faith and
religion".
Adam was perplexed and
mystified. He didn't know that the there are halal towels and soaps as well. He
was
obeying everything like a
puppet whatever she was saying. He went to the wash room. He opened lukewarm
water and water was falling
on his naked body. He was enjoying it. It took him long but still he was
getting
pleasure from pattering sound
of water which was falling on his body. Finally he thought that i had enough so
stopped this process and
started wiping and drying his body. When he was for sure that his body is dry
than he
wore sleeping suit and put on
gown as well. Anna was waiting for him outside the wash room. She grabbed
his hand and took him in her
bed room. Abruptly he thought about najma begum. She was exactly like her.
Najma begum wasn't that
wealthy but feminine tactics are same all around the world. Adam knew what was
going to be happened. Where
she brought him, the bedroom was very beautiful and the curtains around bed
were very decorative and the
curtains on the windows were very expensive. There was dim light in bed room.
He felt that he reading some
story of Talism-e-Hoshruba (a fairytale which is very famous in oriental
world).
In the mean while Anna opened
his gown's twine or makes it romantic that she opened his gown's string and
laced her arm around his
neck. She glued her lips with Adam lips and started kissing him badly. When she
felt
that she is tired she brought
to bed. Adam gradually started opening the buttons of her night dress which was
made of very fine quality of
silk. As all buttons were open he started rubbing her breasts. She was like
surrendered army man in front
of Adam. Then took his hand behind her back and opened the hocks of bra. As
the bra's hocks were opened,
it was like that he like live wire of electric current. There were two
beautiful
breasts in front of him,
which were full of life. In the middle there a line, called cleavage, in that
cleavage that
necklace's beads were feeling
suffocation. Than Anna took off Adam's shirt and than pyjama as well, now
Adam was wearing only boxer
shorts. She swiftly removed that as well. When she saw she got shocked and
stunned and said, "You
too, like us".
Adam said astonishingly:
"so you too".
She said, "Off course,
it's since the beginning". Anna started opening her knickers hooks. Then
she removed
her panty as well. Now Adam
got stunned and he said astoundingly, "you too". Anna said, "Yes
we too". Both
of them smirked and grinned.
Adam and eve played their game whole night. Adam and Anna felt that the
lifelong grudge between Islam
and Jewish has been ended and they are mingled each other.
After breakfast Adam took
permission from Anna to leave. Anna said, "You needn't to worry. My
chauffeur
will drop you. As Adam stood
up Anna gave him a white envelope and indicated not to open. But Adam was
curious and inquisitive so he
searched the envelope with his hand without opening it. There wasn't any piece
of paper; he felt it had
French francs inside. Adam gave her back envelope.
Anna said, "i respect
your feelings but it's not you price. I am happily giving you this with my own
will". She
forced him but Adam didn't
take the envelope. She said, "Okay, fine don't take this envelope but tell
me when
we can see each other
again".
Adam said, "Whenever you
want".
Anna kissed him sturdily and
after this he left her. Anna's chauffeur dropped him close to Belleville metro
station and went away.
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Even though it was a crime
but Adam's conscience was blaming him that he has done something wrong. He
didn't phone anybody, neither
to Butt Sahib nor to Daowd that he will spend night somewhere else. He
thought who cares what's
going on with others. Both of them must be very busy on weekend. They willn't
have time to think about it.
As Adam entered inside, he saw daowd was getting himself ready to go to
restaurant. As he saw Adam he
said in a strident voice, "thanks god, where were you Adam. I was worried
whole night. At least you
would have phoned me. I was thinking that police has arrested you and i was
afraid
and anxious that they will
deport you".
Adam said, "I thought
you must be busy in kitchen. As i know you are very busy on Friday night, you
have
more clients, as you know
that when i ever i telephone, butt sahib picks up the phone. He responds very
sardonically. Anyway there
was anything serious. I will relate you whole story".
Daowd said, "Okay, at
the moment i am in hurry. Whenever something like this happened, feel free to
phone
me. The owner of restaurant
is me not butt. Soon i will be free of all these liabilities, when i will give
divorce
to Anna than i will be no
more under butt's obligations".
Adam was surprised that doawd
is talking against butt. Daowd said to Adam, "i will speak with you
thoroughly later on. As you
know that on Saturday we are very busy. So i should go now". Adam was
exasperated and annoyed with
daowd but as he sensed that daowd is upset, he forgot everything. He promised
himself that he will try his
level best to help daowd if he could.
Either it's hot or cold, it's
windy or stormy. Adam has job or not. In any case he had to send money to his
father, step mother and his
step brother and sister. He used to go to national bank of Pakistan which was
on
Champs Elysees. From this
bank he used to send money to Pakistan regularly. Pakistan embassy exists on
the
same road. Someone told him
that this was Liaquat Ali Khan's house. He gave his house a gift.
Today Adam wasn't willing to
do anything but reluctantly he went to Chatalet les Halles. His boss office was
there. He used to pick
paintings from his office and after selling them he used to give him day's
report. Today
he took some paintings and
started walking in the streets to check his luck. Today wasn't a lucky day. He
gave
the paintings to his boss and
took his way to home. On the way at the Belleville metro station there was
police
control. Nobody knew that
about this. It was very severe checking. Someone was saying that there were two
bomb blasted in Paris. Adam
wasn't first time that they were controlling and Adam has been checked before
many times. So he wasn't
scared. He came out from metro station without any fear. They asked him for the
papers and he showed them his
Italian identity card. Usually they let you go but today they checked his card
many times and told him to
stay with them. Finally they took him to the police station and checked his
identity card. They
discovered the identity card was counterfeit. They gave him Sortie Lettre
(country leaving
paper). As he received sortie
lettre (country leaving letter), for a while he felt he groundless. Someone has
removed ground under his
feet. He was thinking what he should do. He hardly made up his mind to stay in
Paris. He was in love with
Paris. Paris's restaurants, museums, Montmartre, chatalet les halles, centre
George
Pompidou, Champs Elysees,
Fnac music shop how could have been possible that he leave these things.
The Parisian writers,
dramatists, poets, sculptors, discotheques, cabarets, fashion, perfumes, wines
and above
all the Parisian metro, it
was like labyrinths. He wasn't scared that if will be deported and will die of
hunger in
Pakistan. Only thing was
bothering him that he was habitual of Parisian life. There was special mist in
Parisian air. The French
government didn't know this that if someone is in love with Parisian life, it's
difficult
for him to leave Paris.
Earning money wasn't his goal or destiny otherwise he would have robbed a lot
of
money from Anna. He always
had conscience problem who never gave him permission to do things like these.
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First of all he thought that
he should phone Anna, than to Tcknip, finally he went home. Daowd used to come
late on Saturday night.
When he came home the first
thing he did, he phoned Tcknip. She was very happy after hearing Adam's
voice. She said, "How is
everything. How is your job"?
Adam wasn't in a mood of
responding these questions so he said, "What are you doing tomorrow? If
you
aren't doing anything, we
will visit Paris together".
She said, "I am not
anything, i am free".
She said, "So we will
meet at the same place where we met first time, at George Pompidou centre,
bye".
Tcknip placed the receiver on
the cradle.
Adam was at George Pompidou
Centre at exact time what they had decided but Tcknip was already there. As
Adam saw her he said,
"Today i am in a mood of sightseeing. First of all we will see Notre Dame
du Paris
than Eiffel tower".
Tcknip said, "I don't mind, it on walking distance". Both of them
started walking on rue di
Rivoli and they came at Quai
Del Hotel de Ville. They crossed the bridge of Notre Dame du Paris (Notre
Dame) and entered in Ile de
la Cite. There are two very small island in pairs which are called ile de la
cite and
ile st. Louis. The famous and
renowned church of Paris Notre Dame du Paris exists in Ile de la Cite. This is
such a celebrated church that
so many books have been written on this church. The famous French writer
victor Hugo wrote a novel and
named it Notre Dame du Paris because the characters have relationship with
this church. This novel was
filmed as well and they have done most of the shooting in this church. Holy
Spirit,
Hagia Sofia, Notre Dame,
these all are the name of same thing in different languages. These all has same
meaning Miriam or marry.
The foundation stone of this
church was laid on 1163. It was completed after hundred and seventy year's hard
work.
The wedding ceremony of
Marguerite di Valois and Henry di Navarra was celebrated in this church in
1572.
In 1708 Louis XIV renovated
this church. Napoleon's crowning ceremony was celebrated in this church in
1804. After the Second World
War the France's independence ceremonies were celebrated in this church in
1944. The French general
Charles de Gaulle's dead body was being brought here as well in 1970. His all
rituals were completed here.
As matter of fact the whole
church is very beautiful but the most beautiful thing in this church are two
round
windows. They are master
piece of Romanesque gothic art. They are called rose south and rose north.
Adam and Tcknip, they were
looking Notre Dame with their own point of view. Adam picked up all the
booklets which were free.
This was his habit. They were feeling famine, so they started looking for some
doner kebab shop.
Tcknip said, "after
having doner we will go to see Eiffel tower". Adam had the same idea. He
decided that he
will spend these fifteen days
visiting Paris. He will fulfil his desires. He will see all famous places of
Paris.
After this even though, if he
will have to go back to Pakistan. He shan't be regretful. Adam and Tcknip, they
took their doner kebabs and
ate them. After this they came in the garden to have some rest. This garden was
zero point of Paris like
Islamabad has zero point. They measure all the roads of Paris from this point.
Either
they are from south to north
or they are from east to west. They were lying down in the garden but they
slept
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there. When they woke up they
thought that they slept for a while but it has been five 'o' clock in the
evening.
They cleaned their clothes
and came to metro stop. They took metro number five and came to Montparnasse.
From there they took metro
number six and they took Charles de Gaule Etoile's direction. As train (they
call it
tube as well) stopped at
champs de mars, Eiffel tower stop, they got off from the train, they went
towards
sortie and in a very short
time they were on the road.
Tour Eiffel, Eiffel tower,
whatever you call it. It was designed by famous French architect Alexandre
Gustauve Eiffel. He designed
this tower for annual expo of Paris in 1889. The construction was started on
15th march 1888. The first
floor was completed on 15th September 1888 and second floor was completed on
25th December 1888 and on
12th march 1889, it was completed and ready for expo. It has three floors.
First
floor is 57.33 meter high,
second floor is 115.73 meter high and third and last floor is 276.13 meter
high. You
can use lift up to second
floor or you can use stairs. The lift's ticket is more than stairs. If you go
by stairs you
have to pass through seven
hundred stairs up to second floor. On every step you will see a new panorama of
Paris, which means seven
hundred different views of Paris.
At first floor there is post
office. On second floor there is restaurant called Jules Verne. The last floor
is 276
meter high and eight hundred
people can stand at a time.
Gustauve Eiffel got first
prize for designing this tower in 1889's expo. He got French greatest and
biggest
award called "Legend
d'Honour". French love poet Paul Verlaine criticizes this master piece of
art.
For the completion of this
tower 25 millions rivets were being used.
Adam got shocked after
reading the history of Eiffel tower. They have used any nut and bolt and they
have
completed this tower with
rivets. To pick one rivet they needed four persons. As the height of tower was
increasing, the complications
were increasing as well.
Now Adam and Tcknip were very
tired and it was getting dark too. They decided to go home but the tourists
were increasing not
decreasing as it was getting darker and darker. They took they way to home.
Daowd's restaurant used to be
closed on Monday. Adam and daowd met on Sunday evening. Until yet Adam
hasn't told anything about
sortie lettre (country leaving letter) and Adam didn't know nothing about butt
and
daowd's cold war. After
finishing work on Sunday, butt used to go to his girl friend, this was reason
that
doawd and Adam were on their
own. On Monday morning when daowd woke up and turn his face towards
Adam and said, "Adam,
are you sleeping"?
Adam responded, "Yes, i
am".
Daowd said perplexedly,
"very strange, you are sleeping and responding as well".
Adam said, "Don't you
know about modern technology".
Daowd said, "Stop
joking, i have to tell you something very important".
Adam said, "You are
planning to make new Pakistan"
Daowd said, "Jinnah has
made one Pakistan, that's enough". Anyway forget about mocking".
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Adam said, "Than go
on".
Daowd said, "Let's have
breakfast than we will talk".
Adam responded, "As you
wish".
They went to wash room one by
one and then they started preparing breakfast together. They were talking
about different topic during
breakfast. Finally daowd came to the point and said, "Listen to me
carefully
Adam......... as you know
that me and butt we are partner in this restaurant. As i got the carte sejour
(work
permit), butt converted
restaurant's contract on my name. So like that i became the owner of the
restaurant.
When we started restaurant,
we fixed our monthly salary ten thousand French franc each and profit should
have been divided between us,
the restaurant's rent, workers salary, accountant fee, Marie's monthly
instalment for two years, if
i don't pay, i will lose the papers. I can't give divorce because i have to
wait for
two years. Until unless i
willn't give her divorce, i am afraid i will lose the papers. So a naked sword
is
hanging on my head. As long
as i am with her, i have to listen to butt, whatever he says. I have to accept
everything because at the
moment butt is operating me. Since we have started this restaurant, butt has
the
control of accounts, what is
coming what is going. Whenever i asked him about profit and loss, he related me
a long story. Above all he
tells me whatever he has done for me until yet. When we started this
restaurant,
Butt pointed me out that no
one should know about this. Specially, Adam shouldn't know about this. We are
earning good money from
restaurant. Restaurant is running well but we are still under debts. Profit is
something else; i haven't
seen my salary since we have opened this restaurant. Above all when people whom
we owe money they come to me
and asked about their money because in papers i am the owner of the
restaurant. If they will take
legal action, it will be against me. Butt is sleeping partner, he willn't have
any
problem. He always invents
new excuses to take money from restaurant's account. Sometime he will say, my
mother is not well in
Pakistan, or i have to pay money to car mechanic. I stand in front of fire and
make dishes
for the customers. He bought
a house in company's account. He has rented this house to some Pakistani guys.
He keeps that rent in his
pocket and the house mortgage we pay from restaurant's account. Butt has an
appropriate excuse for
everything. He says this will help you when you will marry. It will be easy for
your
wife's immigration. The
things people haven't done in ten years time, you will be able to do in few
months. He
always gives me your example.
Look at your friend Adam. He isn't consistent about any job. Whenever, he
will go to Pakistan. He will
be empty and bare handed. The most important thing which i was dying to tell
you
that the grudge between my
father and my uncle has been ended because my uncle altaf's business isn't like
the way it was before. He
made a lot of money in martial law's time. Now there is no more martial law. As
Pakistani parliament has been
dissolved many times, due to unstable political condition of Pakistan lot of
people suffered, so my uncle
became the victim of this too. His financial condition is very bad. Bubbly has
completed her graduation and
she has started teaching in some private school. On the other hand my father's
business is flourishing day
by day. He started as dahi bhallay vendor. He used to sell dahi bhallay in
front of
some shop, now he is the
owner of that building. I didn't know that in Pakistan you can have property on
ninety years lease,
especially in cantonment areas. Anyway i was telling you about altaf uncle. He
was saying
if doawd comes to Pakistan we
don't mind if he still wants to marry bubbly. I am thinking that on small eid
(it
means eid ul fitre. After
Ramadan which is the month of fasting for Muslim for twenty nine of thirty
days. It
depends upon the moon. They
celebrate eid festival. Fitre means giving money to poor people. Everyone who
is earning enough money is
bound to pay Fitrana). So like that i will attend eid festival and marry as
well.
Since i have started working
for restaurant, i forgot love and amore. As you know there aren't many
customers
in winter time so i am
thinking i should go. I talked about my plan with butt. He said, why not, you
should go.
I will book your ticket but
he tells me so many problems of restaurant. To solve these problems, you need
one
year". Adam was
listening daowd and his head was down. He never ever even thought of this that
daowd
would have been change like
this in six months. He was feeling sorrow. If he could have listen, what Doawd
said or if he would have
accepted his offer, it was very late now.
Daowd said, "You wanted
to tell me something".
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Adam fished out from his
pocket the sortie lettre (country leaving paper) and showed him.
Daowd said, "What is
this"?
Adam responded him,
"this called sortie lettre (country leaving paper).it's an order to leave
France. I have to
leave France in fifteen
days".
Daowd forgot all his problems
and started looking at sortie lettre (country leaving letter). He addressed
Adam,
"what you think of
it"?
Adam responded, "I will
go to Pakistan. I will find some job, whatever". Daowd shouted in angry
mode,
"Don't be so stupid,
there isn't anything over there for you. I have heard that things are worse
than before".
Adam responded,
"thirteen crore people are living happily in Pakistan". One hundred
and thirty million
people.
Daowd said, for them its different
thing. People pay millions of rupees to enter in France".
Adam said, "And finally
what they get in return. The money we earn, some of it we pay in taxes, some
money
goes to agents, some money we
spend for paper marriage. Our saving is; what we eat and what we wear.
These things we can have in
Pakistan too. The only thing we don't have is qanayat (you fulfil your daily
needs
what you have. You don't
lament).we are labelled Muslim".
Daowd wanted to convince
Adam. He said, my dear friend it's the time of arguments. This was the reason,
i
used to say, apply for
political asylum. At least you have some legal position. Oh! I forgot to ask
you. Where
is that identity card"?
Adam said, "They haven't
given me. They said we will do further enquiry about that card". Daowd
cursed in
French language, "putian
merde".
Adam said, "Don't you
think it's a good thing. Like this i will attend your wedding ceremony. May be
i will
meet Nadia"?
Daowd asked him
astonishingly, "Who is this Nadia"?
Adam said, "I like
her".
Daowd said, "In four
years time, you never mentioned about her. You never said anything about
her".
Adam said, "I never felt
like that".
Daowd changed the topic
because Adam changed the track intentionally so doawd wanted to come back to
the
point. He said, "Anyway
you are going to Pakistan. Don't be childish. Go to England. Over there nobody
will
ask you about documents or
papers. Your English is very good. There are so many Pakistani in England. It's
quite possible that you will
find some compatible match for marriage".
Adam said, "How will i
go"?
Daowd said, "The way you
came here".
Adam said, "So you mean
to say, in container".
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Daowd said sorrowfully,
"yes".
Adam wanted to frighten him.
He said, "You know how many people died during this kind of voyage".
Daowd knew what Adam was
thinking. He said in a bad mode, "you willn't die. You are very
tough"
Adam said in a teasing way,
"so you have become agent now. You help people for border crossing. You
arrange dunkeys (illegal
border crossing).
Daowd said, "Don't pull
my leg. I know some people who are in this business. You still have twelve
days. If
you live here in France,
there willn't be any problem. If you agree for paper marriage, i can arrange
something. Now you have to
decide that either you would like to stay in Paris or London.
Adam said laughingly and
flippantly, "No no. i would like to go to London in container. It will be
enjoyable
trip".
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