THE DANGEROUS ESCAPE
(Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee, Rawalpindi)
Once I went to Murree, where
climbed a small mountain. On the other side of the mountain the scenery was
beautiful. In the middle of some trees, I saw a hut and smoke was coming from
it. Then I went towards the hut and looked in the window. I looked all around
and saw no one except some tools and other home things and a pot of some food on
the fire. I thought that I should go in and look. I went to the door and tried
to open it; luckily it was open. I went in and began to look around. I tried to
be as quiet as I could. In one drawer I saw some white powder. I couldn't make
out what was it. So I took one out; closed the drawer and put the packet in my
pocket; I knew that .this was stealing but I badly to know what was in the
packet. Suddenly I heard voices and when I looked around, I saw an empty barrel
big enough to fit me in. I got in the barrel and stayed there.
When the men came in, I saw that there were only two. They sat on the chairs
beside the table. One of the men got up and brought the plates and the pot of
food. They begin to eat, and talk. As they were talking, I noticed that one of
them talked a little about Heroin. On hearing this I knew that the packet 1 had
in my pocket was filled with Heroin. As I tried to move a little in the barrel,
it fell on the ground. One of the men quickly ran towards the barrel and found
me. I knew I was in bit trouble.
He quickly took me out and asked me what was I doing here. I told him about the
'smoke and all the things that happened' except the .drawer one but I made one
mistake. I told him that Listened to all the talk they word. talking; After
listening to this he grabbed me and look me to the other man. The other man took
a piece of cloth out of his pocket and came towards me. I tried to struggle, but
the man was strong. The other man quickly put the cloth on my nose, and mouth. I
knew that it had some kind of medicine. After a while I fainted!
When I opened my eyes again, I was amazed to sec that I was on a boat with me
two men and then I noticed that I was tied up. One of the men rode the boat and
we went at a high speed and after a while we reached a deserted island with only
birds around. They took me out of the boat and we went in the cave. When we were
deep in the cave, I saw a light. As we entered something like a room, I saw that
there were boxes and boxes everywhere. We all sat in the middle of the room.
After sometime, they took me to the other room which even had a door. They
pushed me in and untied my ropes and threw them aside and locked the door.
There was only a small window enough for me to get out but as it was high, it
was not possible for me to escape. As I was tired I went to sleep. The next day
I woke up very early. I began to think of a way, to escape. I thought many ways,
but suddenly I saw the rope aside. I got a plan. I took the rope and threw it
out of the window, luckily it reached the ground. I tied the other end to a big
rock. Then I started to climb down. I reached the ground and started running
towards the boat. As remember the way. As I got nearer to the boat, I heard
voices. My heart sank, but I. got a plan I took a rock and tried to throw it in
the deck. And they press to it went right in it and to two men thought that
there was someone in the deck. As he was out looking in the deck, I got in the
boat and pushed to other man in the deck also and locked the door not be broken,
after sometime we reached the pace we come we reached the place we came from. I
went to the Police Station and left the two men in the deck. I told the Police
Officer the whole story and showed him the packet of Heroin.
After sometime all of the things were taken away and the two men were arrested.
The next day I met my parents and my photo also came in the papers.