PAKISTAN FORCED MARRIAGES


The 20-year-old British woman of Pakistani origon , who declined to show her face and reveal her actual name and asked to go by Shazia for her own personal protection, seen in Islamabad, Pakistan on August 22, 2006. She told that her father said it would be a two-week holiday to learn about her Pakistani heritage. But the British woman …

The 20-year-old British woman of Pakistani origon , who declined to show her face and reveal her actual name and asked to go by Shazia for her own personal protection, seen in Islamabad, Pakistan on August 22, 2006. She told that her father said it would be a two-week holiday to learn about her Pakistani heritage. But the British woman soon found herself captive in a remote tribal village for over a year and promised in marriage to a first cousin she’d never met. With the British High Commission’s help this month, the woman escaped Pakistan shortly before her planned wedding. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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