“In certain distant areas of India to remove bad omen from village a girl is wedded to a dog,” a high ranking bureaucrat who served in India as Press Minister has said.
“Women are burnt alive along with their dead husbands in certain parts of India, this custom is known as Sati,” a source has said.
“Women in Sindh Province of Pakistan are wedded to holy Quran, high families in Sind does not marry their women if nobody in their own family is available to marry her because part of property might go to her husband who is not part of their family,” a source has said on condition of anonymity.
“In NWFP Province of Pakistan Suara is tradition which paves the way for marriage of a girl with another family male in compensation of murder committed by the girl family member, the same tradition is practiced in Saraiki area of Punjab province in the name of Vinni ” a source has said.
“Afghan fathers charge money from the husbands of their daughters, old men benefit from this tradition and get married to Afghan girl after paying due amount to her father, the same practice is common in rural areas of NWFP too,” a source has said.
“A married women when become bit aged in specific area of Kohat NWFP she is sold in Lee market of Karachi where women do prostitution,” a female law student has said.
“When a women acts as a broker between a girl and her lover, when such women is caught family members of the girl cut the nose of broker women, in certain village areas of Kohat,” a source has said.
"Expired woman is buried in get up of bride along with her gold ornaments in Shakardara Tehsil of Kohat," a source has said.
Kailash girls in Chitral are sent to the caves during menstruation period, when it is over then these girls are brought back to their homes, a person in Kohat looking for second marraige often pay handsome amount to the parents of a girl in Chitral and get married to her, Kailash girls are of Greek origin these areas were captured by Elexander the great," a source has said.
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