Urdu short stories have dealt with a wide range of the dimensions of life, but the most famous stories concern the trauma of the partition of the sub-continent and the violence generated out of it. Towards the end of the last century, short stories became grounded in the complexity of daily life which can be seen in the unique collection of short stories in Paigham Afaqui's "Mafia". An entirely different approach is seen in the collection of short stories "T'abir" by Moinuddin Jinabade and "Taus Chaman Ka Maina" by Nayyer Masood.