Dhuwan

Dhuwan
The opening title screen for Dhuwan
Genre	Action, Drama, Thriller
Written by	Ashir Azeem
Directed by	Sajjad Ahmed
Starring	Khalid Khan Nazli Nasr Nabeel Roohi Asal Din Khan Wajid Ali Shah Zubair Khan Achakzai Nayyar Ejaz Mohammad Nawaz Salman
Country of origin	Pakistan
Original language(s)	Urdu
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer(s)	Sajjad Ahmed
Location(s)	Quetta, Pakistan
Editor(s)	Zafar Abbas Naqvi
Camera setup	Tahir Bukhari
Release
Original network	PTV
Picture format	PAL/SECAM
Original release	1994 (1994)

Dhuwan (Urdu: دھواں‎, English: Smoke) is a Pakistani TV drama serial. It originally aired on Pakistan Television Corporation channel in 1994. The play is based on a story of five friends, who take the challenge to fight against the terrorists and drug dealers. The serial known for its neat outdoor shooting and liberal use of ammunition to convey realism.

The story of this drama revolves around five young friends, each with a different background, who want to bring a positive change in society in order to serve their country. Azhar (Ashir Azeem) is newly appointed as Assistant superintendent of police. Earlier he had completed his engineering degree but to be able to contribute to the society, he opted for the police job. His first placement is in Quetta, where he finds his old friends: Dawood (Nabeel) who is a medical doctor. Their local friend Naveed also known as Nido (Asal Din Khan) who looks after his father's business. One of their old acquaintance Wajid is a crime reporter in a local newspaper. Naveed and Wajid train with their friend Hameed who is the owner of an arms store.

Azhar was being monitored by an undercover officer Sara (Nazli Nasr) posing as a UN worker. She most likely was providing information to the ministry in Islamabad. Their first meeting was on a flight to Quetta. Azhar is handed over a case of narcotics by the ministry and he is advised to assemble a team to carry out operations which cannot be shared with the local police, to avoid any possible tip-offs to the criminals. These five friends begin to train as a crack squad. They also begin to create a computerized database of National Identity Cards, passports, and vehicle data.

Ashir Azeem wrote the script for Dhuwan during his time at the Civil Services Academy where he met several police personnel. Being inexperienced at writing scripts for television, Azeem initially wrote the story in the form of a novel and later developed it into a formal script on the advice of a television executive. Azeem's work was primarily written in English and PTV's in-house screenwriters had to translate it into an Urdu script. Azeem later revealed that the translated screenplay couldn't completely realise his conceptualisation and he had to rework some parts.