A weakness of your own character and lack of courage is something you can never blame on others or your circumstances.

But that's not a result of any intention by the author, which makes the book itself a terrible read. The last wife before our author was Shehrezad, a beautiful, highly accomplished woman whom Khar married because he had to meet US delegates and wished to impress them with his trophy wife. It was during this time, with Tehmina frustrated and bored of her first husband, during which she met Mustafa Khar, an upcoming politician who could have walked straight out of one of McNaught’s aforementioned novels, in that all the clichés about heroes seem to have applied to him.Durrani was hailed for being extremely brave for divulging extremely personal, even humiliating details of her married life. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This connection between the Mustafa Khar that other people saw and the reality of who he was—a vicious and cruel person—seemed to be pervasive throughout both his political life as well as his personal. Being a life story, this book is bound to be judged not by its writing style or the author's literary skills, but by the surmised virtues of the characters involved. She was fully involved in the conspiracy to overthrow the government in Pakistan with the help of money and arms from Indian government.

Here at last was someone who had succeded in reconciling her faith in Islam with her ardent belief in women's rights. I think everyone should definitely read it once, and then engage in a long, healthy debate about all of the things that surround it. The author left her first husband to marry him,and the way she describes it,found herself in a living nightmare.

Tehmina tried to leave Mustafa many times, but he being the feudal lord, in a habit of keeping his possessions to himself, always found a way to pull her back, once even by taking his own three children hostages. While she claims it was love, I fell it was her desire to be one of the elites and followed her lust. Durrani engaged the Italian cosmetics firm Sant' Angelica and the government of Italy to treat Younus. She wanted to be the part of high society attention of the most powerful man of Punjab and did everything for it. Mostly those were the kids with dark skin (including our author), who grow up in a household where fair skin – like the one her mother and her Pathan father have – are prized above all else.