Karakoram ka Taaj Mahal

Exploring the horizons of a tale of idealistic living of both leads, writer Nimra Ahmed this time takes us on a ride to Karakoram, also known as Rakaposhi, situated in the northern areas of Pakistan, along with her old approach of giving in all the tad bits of details of almost every little scenario and then maintaining a touch of suspense in her another magnificent work of fiction, Karakoram Ka Taj Mahal, which, for all the astounding reasons is based on a true story!

The novel starts with Parishay who has beautiful features with her hair all tied up in a nice, neat ponytail. She gets irritated when a biker boy whistles at her as she is on her way to her cousin’s (Nisha) house who is also her only best friend. Initially she’s portrayed as an idealist, whose, dreams get crushed by her own family members, relatively at quite a younger age right after her mother passes away. Though, she sidelined all her dreams, she still has this desire to scale the mountains, or, to be more exact, be delighted by the scenic beauty of it and meet up with her dream prince she has been dreaming of her entire life, but she being another innocent soul agrees on marrying her aunt’s son, Saif just for the sake of her father and also struggles on becoming a doctor just so that she might make her father and in-laws happy.

Moving forward as the story progresses, she’s given permission by her father to visit the northern areas of Pakistan along with Nisha and a tour guide.