'Regret') is a Pakistani drama television series that premiered on Hum TV on October 9, 2009.

[1][2] Produced by Momina Duraid, Malaal is the story that shows how wrong decisions can affect everyone’s lives and how self- centeredness gets you nowhere.

[3] The series marked the return of the duo, writer Umera Ahmad and director Mehreen Jabbar,[4][5] who previously collaborated on the hit serial Doraha.

[6] The storyline revolves around Zinia and Danish, who have been close friends for ten years and live in the US.

Meanwhile, Jawad proposes to Zinia, to which she reluctantly disagrees, as she is older than him by 8 years and his mother won't allow this marriage.

But now Mahi starts to hate him after learning that he loves Zinia and that he wanted an excuse to leave her, and she is also able to convince her mother Aliya and her father.

On the other hand, when Jawad expresses feelings for Zinia to her mother, she rejects them and starts shouting at him.

He goes back to New York to meet Zinia, and so she tells to him that she has married Danish, and he says that his mother has rejected him.

After few days they meet each other where Zinia says she hadn't married Danish and had lied because she knew that Jawad's mother has rejected her.

Malaal was dubbed in Arabic with name "حب و ندم" and was broadcast by MBC in the Middle East.