Dramas

Sila and Ali have loved each other since a childhood engagement. Sila’s grandfather, Ayaz Durrani, still wounded by his own daughter’s love marriage, keeps Sila under strict watch. Ali is her comfort, until a misunderstanding makes the grandfather break the engagement.

Zoha Tauqeer · Hashaam Khan · Usman Peerzada

Zanjeerain is Farhat Ishtiaq’s 2026 HUM serial, directed by Shehzad Kashmiri and led by Sajal Aly. It has ended. HUM TV uploads put the final stretch at 10 September 2026.

Sajal Aly · Danyal Zafar · Ameer Gilani

Aap Ki Izzat is Umera Ahmed’s HUM serial with Ahsan Khan and Urwa Hocane. It ended on 26 September 2026.

Ahsan Khan · Urwa Hocane · Sania Saeed

After her father Baseerat dies, Khirad marries her cousin Ashar and leaves Hyderabad for his Karachi house. Ashar’s mother never accepts her. A jealous Sara and that mother-in-law build a lie that separates the couple, including from the daughter Khirad later raises. The serial is still the drama people mean when they say Pakistani television went global.

Fawad Khan · Mahira Khan · Naveen Waqar

Kashaf, from a stretched Karachi household run by her mother, and Zaroon, from a rich and argumentative one, collide at university and again in an arranged marriage. Umera Ahmed’s serial is still the one viewers quote when they talk about class, ego and a heroine who will not shrink.

Sanam Saeed · Fawad Khan

Based on Farhat Ishtiaq’s novel Woh Yakeen Ka Naya Safar. Zubiya and Asfandyar are both doctors, and both arrive at each other only after separate harm. The opening theme is Hadiqa Kiani’s. It ran 29 episodes.

Sajal Aly · Ahad Raza Mir · Shaz Khan

Alif is Umera Ahmed’s spiritual romance about faith, show business and the cost of a life spent performing. It premiered on Geo on 5 October 2019 and was produced by Epic Entertainment, then a new house from Sana Shahnawaz and Samina Humayun Saeed.

Hamza Ali Abbasi · Sajal Aly · Kubra Khan

Hashim Nadeem’s novel about a dark-skinned, gentle man the world keeps underpricing. Ahmed Ali Akbar plays Parizaad. The last episode was shown in cinemas on 28 January 2022 and on television on 1 February 2022.

Ahmed Ali Akbar · Yumna Zaidi · Ushna Shah

A feud in a landed family, and the grandchildren, Wali and Faarah, who are pushed toward each other to repair it. One of the few Pakistani serials that feels like a full novel on screen. 33 episodes.

Osman Khalid Butt · Maya Ali · Mikaal Zulfiqar

Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar’s story of Afzal, a man the town has already decided is a failure, and the love that does not save him cleanly. Hamza Ali Abbasi and Ayeza Khan lead. It is regularly named with the great ARY serials.

Hamza Ali Abbasi · Ayeza Khan

Umera Ahmed’s novella about a young woman who has organised her life around being admired, and what is left when that collapses. Mahira Khan leads. Sarmad Khoosat directs.

Mahira Khan · Mikaal Zulfiqar · Mohib Mirza

Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar’s own love story, set in the 1980s, with Mahira Khan and Adnan Malik (in his first role) as Shano and Khalil. Mohammed Ehteshamuddin directs.

Mahira Khan · Adnan Malik · Samiya Mumtaz

Faiza Iftikhar and Kashif Nisar’s serial about class, desire and a woman who refuses the role she was handed. Iqra Aziz, Imran Ashraf and Syed Jibran lead. It remains one of HUM’s most argued-about hits.

Iqra Aziz · Imran Ashraf · Syed Jibran

A marriage comes apart over money and status, and the country watched the break in real time. Humayun Saeed, Ayeza Khan and Adnan Siddiqui lead. At the 19th Lux Style Awards it won Best TV Play.

Humayun Saeed · Ayeza Khan · Adnan Siddiqui

A Ramadan comedy about cousins who are already married and not yet ready to live together, and the two families sharing one house. It aired every night of Ramadan 2018. Saima Akram Chaudhry writes; Ahson Talish directs.

Iqra Aziz · Farhan Saeed

Four school friends whose adult lives pull them into very different Pakistans, including the army. Created with ISPR. Mustafa Afridi writes; Saife Hassan directs.

Ahad Raza Mir · Osman Khalid Butt · Ahmed Ali Akbar

A social serial, made with the Kashf Foundation, about rural poverty, the pressure on women, and child sexual abuse. It is serious television, not a romance with a sermon attached. Farhat Ishtiaq writes. Watch with care if that subject is close to home.

Bushra Ansari · Urwa Hocane · Samiya Mumtaz

A feud between two families, a forced marriage, and Meerab’s refusal to play the obedient bride inside Murtasim’s feudal house. It was Geo’s defining serial of the 2022–23 season and the role that fixed Yumna Zaidi and Wahaj Ali as a pair in the public mind. The run is widely published as 58 episodes.

Yumna Zaidi · Wahaj Ali

Mustafa is written as a brilliant man his family has spoiled into drift. Sharjeena is the one who refuses the ‘loser’ label and makes him work. Farhat Ishtiaq has said Sharjeena is the actual hero of the story. It was the highest-rated Pakistani programme from 2021 through 2024, and Fahad Mustafa’s return to acting after ten years.

Fahad Mustafa · Hania Aamir · Javaid Sheikh

Shibra Suleman is a middle-class student who will not be impressed by money. Shahmeer Sikandar is the son of a political house who meets her as Fazal Bakhsh, an ordinary man. The romance is a comedy about that disguise, and about a family that does politics for a living. It was a ratings hit. Critics were mixed.

Bilal Abbas Khan · Durefishan Saleem · Omair Rana

Mannat refuses to let a rape inside a rich family be buried as gossip. Saba Qamar and Bilal Abbas Khan lead. It is a justice story, not a love story, and it was one of ARY’s sharpest 2019 serials.

Saba Qamar · Bilal Abbas Khan

The partition serial. Bano and Hassan are separated by 1947, and the story does not offer a soft landing. Samira Fazal adapted Razia Butt’s novel Bano. Haissam Hussain directs. Fawad Khan and Sanam Baloch lead.

Fawad Khan · Sanam Baloch

The tragic romance that made Durefishan Saleem widely known, opposite Danish Taimoor. It aired on ARY Digital in 2022. ShowBuzz is not attaching a writer or director on this page unless a single channel credit is in front of us; several fan pages disagree, and a wrong credit is worse than a blank one.

Danish Taimoor · Durefishan Saleem

A team of doctors at a Karachi hospital, followed through their shifts and their private lives. At the centre are Dr Ahmer Ansari, a reserved senior surgeon who is still grieving his foster father, and Dr Zoya Ali Khan, a young doctor whose impulsive warmth keeps colliding with his discipline. Their arguments on the ward slowly turn into something else.

Rahat Kazmi · Marina Khan · Badar Khalil

Two sisters, Zara and Sanya, lose their parents in a car accident and then discover that their father was deep in debt. The family house has to be sold, their friends drift away, and they move to Karachi to live with their aunt. Quiet Zara becomes fixed on making enough money to buy the house back, while lively Sanya tries to make a new life work.

Shehnaz Sheikh · Marina Khan · Asif Raza Mir

Sana Murad is young, ambitious and broke. Her father died early, and her younger brother Jibran needs heart surgery the family cannot pay for. She fails a job interview because she has no experience, then meets the company chairman by chance and lands a job in his office, where she cannot type or take dictation, to the despair of her boss, Taimoor.

Shehnaz Sheikh · Shakeel · Javed Sheikh

Chaudhry Hashmat rules the Punjabi estate of Sikandarpur with an iron grip, just as it is chosen as the site for a dam. Around him, his son Yaqub and his grandsons Anwar and Niaz fight over who will inherit it. Anwar is as ruthless as his grandfather, Niaz wants to escape to Lahore, and a stranger called Fateh Sher is not who he seems.

Mehboob Alam · Firdous Jamal · Aurangzeb Leghari

Three friends, Faraz, Kashif and Gulsher, graduate from the Pakistan Military Academy and join the army as young officers. Faraz arrives in a new Mercedes as the Sword of Honour winner and is promptly taken down a peg. Kashif, a general's son, never wanted to be a soldier. Gulsher is quiet and modest. Romance, pranks and real postings follow.

Faraz Inam · Abdullah Mehmood · Qasim Khan

Hala is left in Pakistan when her father moves to London with his new wife. She grows up in her uncle's house, where her aunt Shah Jahan blames her for everything that goes wrong. Only her grandmother and one uncle stand by her. Then Shah Jahan's son Hamza comes home from abroad, and the balance of the household starts to shift.

Farhan Saeed · Hania Aamir · Saba Hameed

Sanam, called Khaani, is timid and sheltered, and her family is busy planning the birthday she shares with her twin brother, Sarim. Then Sarim angers Mir Hadi, the spoiled son of a powerful politician, and Hadi shoots him dead. Khaani's family takes him to court and is met with threats and humiliation. Grief turns Khaani into the one person who will not back down.

Feroze Khan · Sana Javed · Mehmood Aslam

Ramanand Sagar's retelling of the Ramayana, mainly from Valmiki's epic and Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, with other regional versions as sources. It follows Ram from his childhood in Ayodhya through exile with Sita and Lakshman, Sita's abduction by Ravana and the war to bring her back. Ashok Kumar and Sagar narrate, and Ravindra Jain composed the music.

Arun Govil · Deepika Chikhalia · Sunil Lahri

In Mumbai, the wealthy Gujarati Virani family lives under the wise eye of its matriarch, Amba, known as Baa. Into this household comes Tulsi, a priest's daughter who marries Mihir, grandson of the business tycoon Govardhan Virani. The serial follows Tulsi as the model daughter-in-law holding a sprawling, quarrelsome family together across several generations.

Smriti Irani · Sudha Shivpuri · Shakti Singh

A historical drama inspired by the life of Ertuğrul Bey, the father of Osman I, who founded the Ottoman Empire. In 13th-century Anatolia, Ertuğrul leads the nomadic Kayı tribe while it is squeezed by the Mongols to the east and the Crusaders and Byzantines to the west, and threatened by traitors closer to home. Alliances shift and every season brings a new enemy.

Engin Altan Düzyatan · Esra Bilgiç · Kaan Taşaner

The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, seen from inside the palace. As his power grows, so do the rivalries around him: his friend and adviser Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, his mother Hafsa Sultan, his sister Hatice, Mahidevran, the mother of his eldest son, and Hürrem, a slave girl who rises to become his wife.

Halit Ergenç · Meryem Uzerli · Vahide Perçin

An orphaned girl enters the royal kitchens of Joseon-era Korea as an apprentice cook. In a time when women had little say in society, Jang-geum sets out to master the secrets of court cuisine and then of medicine, in the hope of curing the king's ailments. The story is based on Janggeum, the first female royal physician of the Joseon period.

Lee Young-ae · Ji Jin-hee · Hong Ri-na

Joon-sang, the quiet son of a famous musician, moves to the small city of Chuncheon and falls for his classmate Yoo-jin. Their first love is cut short by an accident. Ten years later Yoo-jin, now an interior designer engaged to her childhood friend, is assigned to work with an architect back from America who looks exactly like Joon-sang.

Bae Yong-joon · Choi Ji-woo · Park Yong-ha

Yoo Shi-jin, a special forces captain, and Kang Mo-yeon, a surgeon, are drawn to each other, but their different views on life and duty pull them apart. They meet again in a fictional, disaster-hit country where both are on a humanitarian mission. Alongside them, Master Sergeant Seo Dae-young and army doctor Yoon Myung-joo carry on a romance her father forbids.

Song Joong-ki · Song Hye-kyo · Jin Goo

Yoon Se-ri, a South Korean heiress, is paragliding when a tornado sweeps her across the border and drops her into North Korea. Ri Jeong-hyeok, a captain in the Korean People's Army, finds her and decides to hide and protect her. Despite everything that divides their countries, they fall for each other. Meanwhile a fraudster on the run and Jeong-hyeok's fiancée, Seo Dan, have their own story.

Hyun Bin · Son Ye-jin · Kim Jung-hyun

Four hundred and fifty-six people in deep debt are invited to a secret contest. They play a series of children's games, and the prize is ₩45.6 billion. The catch is that losing a game means death. Seong Gi-hun, a gambling-addicted chauffeur, leads an ensemble of players who must decide how far they will go for the money.

Lee Jung-jae · Lee Byung-hun · Wi Ha-joon

On the continents of Westeros and Essos, noble families fight over the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms. Across the sea, the last heir of the overthrown royal dynasty plans her return. In the far north, the Night's Watch guards the realm's border against threats from beyond the Wall. The series is the first adaptation of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels.

Sean Bean · Michelle Fairley · Richard Madden