As Jahan Ara(Saba Qamar) tightens her grip on Junaid(Ali Ansari) and Maira(Anoushay Abbassi), Muamma takes the plot into the past. The snippets from Jahan Ara’s past still haunt her: a lover lost and the family cut off. It leaves a lingering question about what led Jahan Ara to become who she is now.
The episode shows scenes of Jahan Ara’s parents, now struggling with their old age, who have cut ties with her, while the mother still yearns for her. When her father meets with an accident, the mother calls Jahan Ara for help, and she states that she cannot come to that house, hinting at some trauma associated with the past. She sends an ambulance as she cries for her lost relationships.
So far in Muamma, Jahan Ara is a woman living alone, who keeps young couples as tenants in a portion of her house. Through a double mirror, she keeps a keen eye on their movements and plots to test the man’s loyalty towards their wives. All tenants are newlyweds, with the wives expecting their first child and the husbands working. She lures them with her remarkable cooking and sweet tone. She has previously split Zeeshan(Nabeel Zuberi) and Zara(Mahnoor Malik) and now moved on to Junaid and Maira.
In another glimpse from the past, another character, Shaanu (Usman Mukhtar), her lover, tells her he will ask for her hand in marriage now that he has found employment. It shows that Jahan Ara is a happy young girl, looking forward to life, marriage, and all that comes with it. Yet now, she is a sadistic woman, trapping men who are disloyal to their wives. She is married to an abusive man instead, who is now in jail over the allegation of murder.
Jahan Ara’s intrigue has hooked the audience on her life and past as it slowly unravels. Stating that Jahan Ara’s transformation is due to the traumas her vast past carries, a user posted on X:
Jahan Aara’s past is like a tumultuous ocean of heartbreaks, disappointments, life traumas that have compelled her to make a world of lies around herself. Is the mysterious Jiji just protecting herself from more harm by this or is she actually sheer evil? Hard to tell ! #Muamma pic.twitter.com/H7Nk8YN8hC
— UziShi 🤷🏻♀️ (@UzmaRS) January 29, 2026
Appreciating the writing and Saba Qamar’s apt portrayal of Jahan Ara, the drama critic said that the reasons behind her twisted personality are slowly coming to light. She posted:
Saba Qamar is just so good at conveying the silent intensity of pain
How did JiJi become this twisted soul is slowly unraveling
I love how #Muamma keeps switching perspectives
Very few morally clear protagonists All are human & weak
Amazing writing from Imran Nazir !!— Sadaf Haider (@tomtomatoe) January 29, 2026
