Dil Nawaz
August 26 2007

A young bride goes to live with her husband’s family in Pakistan only to suffer a nightmarish experience at the hands of religious bigots. This article gives an exclusive account of the horrors suffered by the victim(s).

SIXTY YEARS AFTER the independence, ordinary people still pay the price of religious laws and bigotry, enacted to prolong the animosity between nations, tribes, religions, in complete defiance of universal declaration of human rights and United Nations charter.

M Kaur, her full identity hidden for safety, is a Sikh girl from Malaysia. She met her husband four years ago in UK ( United Kingdom) while studying at the university. He was a student from Pakistan and a Muslim. They had a UK registration marriage as well as temple wedding, to keep her parents happy about the marriage. The husband, after completing his studies had to return back to Pakistan, as he could no longer stay in UK. The bride also followed him to Pakistan, to settle down with the in-laws permanently. According to the interviewer, she had intended to stay there for a long time but when she arrived there, she had not anticipated the turmoil her presence would create.