Tag: love marriage
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Shocking number of people have ‘love marriages’ in Pakistan: Survey
In Pakistan, marrying a person of choice is usually looked down upon considering the shame attached to it and lack of option and privilege to interact with people. Which is why the result of Gallup’s new survey comes as no surprise. Gallup Pakistan, the well-known public opinion polling agency, has released a new survey on…
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22-year-old fakes his own kidnapping in Muzaffargarh
A 22-year-old man staged his own kidnapping to trick his father into giving him two million rupees, reports Dawn News. Two days ago, Muhammed Ahmad, son of Mushtaq Mahra, went missing from Rohillanwali, 25 km from Muzaffargarh city. His father approached police by calling 15, complaining about his son being abducted by Katcha gangs of…
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Karachi’s Jaweria arrives in India to marry Kolkata’s Sameer
Another cross-border marriage is about to take place, this time in India. Jaweria from Karachi and Sameer from Kolkata are set to get married soon. Jaweria Khanum finally made it to India after a wait of five years to marry Sameer Khan Yousafzai. The two befriended each other on social media and got the approval…
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‘Daku’ bnaya ishq nay
Love can make a daku out of a normal guy. A private bank’s cash van carrying Rs 6 crore and 35 lacs was robbed on September 19 in Karachi’s Korangi area. The suspect, Zohaib, has not been arrested yet. According to investigative authorities, Zohaib was the employee of a private security company, and had been…
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‘They do love marriages, then become a problem for court’: Chief Justice
Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa has remarked that having a beard does not make a person a Muslim, people themselves marry for love and then it becomes an issue for the court as per Aaj news. The case of the extradition of two minor girls was heard in the Supreme Court by a three-member bench…
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Pakistani women are sharing their unpopular opinions about marriage on Twitter
If you could share an unpopular opinion about marriage, what would you say? Pakistani women are sharing cold hard facts with this trend on X (formerly Twitter), sharing their frank opinions about marriage. Since desi societies predominantly consider marriages to be a system arranged without a woman’s consent or opinion, many women shared what they…
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Girl’s father bites off finger of boy’s dad over love marriage clash
A girl’s father bit off the finger of a man’s father during a physical assault over a love marriage dispute at the Gulshan-e-Zia area of Orangi Town in Karachi, reports Geo News. Muhammad Hussain, the father of Muhammad Suleiman, told the police that the girl named Nabila lived in their neighbourhood and was also his…
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‘I won’t fall in love… will marry as per my parents’ choice’: Video of oath at girls college goes viral
About 40 students at a girls college have pledged to desist from love marriage besides giving or receiving dowry, a 2020 video going viral a day after Valentine’s Day has revealed. As per the details, the video was recorded at Mahila Kala Vanijya Mahavidyalaya in the Indian state of Maharashtra The oath was administered by…