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Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed (Punjabi and Urdu: شفیلیہ افتخار احمد; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in an honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept a forced marriage.
Khan was born in 1993 and was a first-generation child of Pakistani Muslim immigrants. [1] [4] [13] Khan was born to Haider Farooq Khan and Shazia Khan. [4]Her hometown was Chattanooga, Tennessee [3] where she graduated from the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences. [3]
A Pakistani bride signing her Nikah paper. A typical Pakistani wedding, or Shaadi (شادی) consists of two main events - the Nikah and Walima. Arranged and semi-arranged marriages in Pakistan often take long periods of time to finalize and up to a year or more can elapse from the day of engagement until the wedding ceremony.
Parsa is a Pakistani drama serial based on the novel of the same name "Parsa", by Bushra Rahman with screenplay by Tahira Wasti. It explores the permissibility of inter-faith marriages, and cultural and societal issues regarding the topic. The drama depicts the story of Parsa, a Muslim girl who falls in love with David, a family friend and ...
Rimsha Masih (Urdu: رمشا مسیح — some early reports used the first name "Rifta" or "Riftah") is a Pakistani girl [1] from Islamabad, [2] who was arrested by the Pakistani police on blasphemy charges in August 2012 when she was 14 years old. [3]
Dua Zehra Kazmi is a girl from Karachi, Pakistan who went missing from her home on 16 April 2022 [1] and days after was found, married to a boy in Okara, Punjab. [2] The case made headlines across the country and continued to dominate the news cycle for months.
Nadia Ali was born in Pakistan [2] as Onaza Malik. [5] She emigrated to the United States as a child and was raised in New Jersey. [4] She now uses the name Onai Malik. [5] Malik speaks Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. [6] She was raised as a Muslim and felt isolated by her family's conservatism, although she did not wear a hijab. [4]
Zainab Amin Ansari (Urdu: زینب امین انصاری; c. 2010 – January 2018) was a seven-year-old Pakistani girl who was abducted in her hometown of Kasur, Punjab while she was on her way to Quran recitation classes on 4 January 2018.