A blind landowner in Kashmir and ’s father. Ghani tricks into falling in love with his daughter by setting him up. He repeatedly summons Aadam, a doctor, to his home under the pretenses of his daughter’s feigned illnesses, forcing Aadam to examine Naseem through a perforated sheet, or . The sheet becomes something “sacred and magical,” and Aadam ultimately falls in love Naseem, just as Ghani has planned.