As a Muslim woman seeking a divorce, she paid a high price. This is the story of Tehmina's rebellion from an unhappy marriage. For the course of her 14-year marriage, she suffered alone, in silence. Mustafa Khar became violently possessive and jealous, and succeeded in cutting his wife off from the outside world. In private, however, the story-book romance rapidly turned sour. When she married Mustafa Khar, one of Pakistan's most eminent political figures, she continued to move in the best circles, and learned to keep up the public facade as a glamorous, cultivated wife, and mother of four children. lead a sheltered life of air-conditioned leisure. Like all women of her rank, she was expected to marry a wealthy Muslim, bear him many children and. Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society and educated at the same school as Benazir Bhutto.
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