Apple of your eye-Part 7

Craziness was his other name. His passion was revenge in name of God. He believed in extremist values. His youth was the main reason for his impatience. Unlike elders slow paced moderates policies, he believed in fast and quick actions.

He was Moh-ud-deen's favorite fool. He performed all the dirty works for Moh-ud-deen. He was called by the world as Shaukeen Ahmed a.k.a right arm of Moh-ud-deen. Love, care and affection were alien words to him. He was born listening to words of misery and hatred. His mother was killed when he was nine and his father was arrested on wrong charges of deceit and murder. Thus when he first met Moh-ud-deen, his radical thoughts attracted young Shaukeen and there he made him as his master.

His instructions were like words coming from God. Anything that played against his master's rules were immediately removed from the way. But everything would have worked well today if the army had not been prepared. He was not ready to face the wrath of master. Unfortunately he had no choice.

" I am really angry with you! I have never left down like this. I want results. God will never forgive you.", he said while storming into the room. His words were firm and cold like stones. It pierced Shaukeen's heart. Shaukeen couldn't face the truth that he had let down his master and Allah was not going to be pleased. " If and only if Rehman could outweigh that jawan, we would have killed the girl. Because of that jawan, we lost many of our men",Shaukeen said.

" Forget the girl! You failed to research about the area. You missed the important information- That area was surrounded by army and obviously they could act fast on our attack. And that jawan! I only want you to do one small work- get anything and every information on that jawan. This time! Remember! No mistakes! Got that! Now you may dismiss.",  Moh-ud-deen instructed and Shaukeen listened to him like a disciplined little child.

He walked out of the blue room with his face bent down. He didn't see  Aafreen coming in the opposite direction and he almost hit her. No one tripped or fell or got hurt. He raised to see who that person was . He was bit shocked and more confused as he felt that he had seen the girl. The girl looked at him with same confusion and left him alone.

(To be continued)