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Synopsis As a thinker Paigham Afaqui has developed his own way of looking at the world. In Mafia his creative mind has traveled on the very line to which he is professionally attached. But he has surpassed the routine level of crime and wandered into the metaphysical realm of crime: thereby discovering the roots of Mafia which has spread like cancer in a variety of minds. Since its publication in 1989 Paigham Afagui’s novel Makan has come to be considered as one of the greatest novels in contemporary Urdu fiction and has determined the trend of Urdu novel by influencing the form and philosophies of novels written thereafter. The novel roars through the jungle of lawlessness and terror with a powerful and far reaching afresh the eternal spirit of man’s greatness through the character of a woman who emerges as a prophet of aggressive creativity amidst the wrecks of the old structure of society. The stories of Mafia form a panorama of forces, ideas and situations which sustain and support anti-human powers which feed themselves on the laws and values and terrorize their victims for optimum dominance and flesh cutting. It is an investigation into the world of Mafia in it’s metaphysical realm. This panorama encompasses all components of the eternal Mafia: human character, history and nature.