Wadi-e-Purkhar

'Thorny Valley') is a 1983 Pakistani television long play Urdu written by Younus Javed and produced and directed by Mohammad Nisar Hussain for PTV.

[3] The story is about Najma and Naseeruddin who are friends at college and later get married.

Najma faces a hard time getting used to the traditions of Naseeruddin's family.

Zaibunnisa usually finds every way to give Najma a hard time but much to her sadness her husband dies and she raises her son Ahmar alone.

Zaibunnisa and Karam-Un-nisa then demands Najma to give them Ahmar who is heir to his father's wealth but she refuses.