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Vani (Urdu: ونی), or Swara (سوارہ), is a custom where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation to end disputes, often murder. [1] [2] Vani is a form of arranged or forced child marriage, [3] and the result of punishment decided by a council of tribal elders named jirga.
Following is the complete list of 124 novels written by the original author Ibn-e-Safi in Jasoosi Dunya (جاسوسی دنیا) series. [1] (Original number, original title , original title , translated tile in parentheses, year first published.) Diler Mujjrim (دلير مجرم) (The Courageous Criminal) Bilal Naseem - 1952
Forced marriage, 8 min, Urdu, Geo TV, 2003. DIG Sindh Police Aftab Pathan had said on the occasion of a consultative workshop organized by FIA Sindh that in 2014, 1,261 cases of abduction of women for forced marriage were registered. Five accused were jailed while the case of 369 accused was pending.
Umrao Jaan Ada (Urdu: اُمراؤ جان ادا) is an Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa (1857–1931), first published in 1899. [1] It is considered the first Urdu novel by many [2] and tells the story of a tawaif and poet by the same name from 19th century Lucknow, as recounted by her to the author.
As my marriage fell apart, I would often fall asleep in my sewing room chair and stumble into bed in the wee hours of the morning. It was the only space in the house that felt safe. My husband ...
The publication of "Lihaaf" ("The Quilt") led to much controversy, uproar and an obscenity trial, where Ismat had to defend herself in the Lahore Court. She was asked to apologize and refused, winning the case after her lawyer said that the story makes no suggestion to a sexual act, and prosecution witnesses could not point out any obscene words: the story is merely suggestive and told from ...
The Medinan verses instead promote marriage to free women , marriage to slaves (24:32, 2:221) and recommend abstinence (4:25, 24:30). [29] Jonathan Brockopp sees this as a chronological progression, where the later ethic appears to limit sexual relations to marriage only. [ 29 ]
Most of the stories given prizes are about violence against women including child sexual abuse, domestic abuse, restriction for women going to higher education, murder, forced marriages, the double standards being applied between women and men and place of women in public spaces.