The Burning Belt

A nuclear warhead concealed in the bunker of Peshawar, Pakistan. A menacing terrorist hatches a plan to knock it off to target it to Washington. D. C., America. It is an electrifying tale of the empowerment of four women who contrives to avert a catastrophe. What are the stakes in it?

The Sheikh of Al-Qaeda for long had an eye on the nuclear warhead of Pakistan. He finds an exact double of the President of Pakistan in the form of Moin, a menial worker in a tribal village. He persuades Moin to join their mission without informing his family. Then trains and plants him in the Parliament at Islamabad. The actual President was sent underground in a resort in D.I. Khan, a town in the tribal belt. The double performs his task of acting as the President so comprehensively that no shred of doubt cascades on him and he extracts all the covert details of knocking of the warhead from the defense ministry except a code number that was known only to the President. Meanwhile, a suspicion crashes to the mind of Sayeda, the wife of the President due to his diffidence for conjugal relations with her. One day, she confides it with winsome Thabassum, her intimate friend and journalist that Moin is actually not her husband. While the President was being bullied to hunger to reveal the code, Thabassum started to embark upon the humongous and perilous job of unleashing the truth and tracing the President. First, she tumbles into Saira, an employee of pearl Continental hotel from where the President was dazed, kidnapped and transported in a van to D.I.Khan. Thabassum, along with Zuhan, a scientist traces the movement of the van through the backtracking of satellite imageries. Then, she meets Moin’s real wife, Sofia who was searching for him. Could the four women unleash the plot and save the lives of millions in America?

Publisher : Kathalok Publications, Bangalore.
First edition : November. 2011.
Pages : 177.
Price : Rs. 500/- Foreign 25$ (including postage).