The only certainty was that she was to go live in America with a “handsome” doctor for two years and then it would be back to Pakistan for the rest of her life. Dholkis, ghararas, home make-up bedecked, all veiled and head coyly bent down, she went through the gamut quite unprepared for how the future would unfold. Of course, there had been political unrest in the air since March 1971, which eventually led to the country’s dismemberment in December of the same year, but Sabeeha Rehman, née Akbar, like so many of her generation, did get married in right royal style and that too to a man she had never set eyes on. HUGELY contrary to the beliefs of today’s jet-setting Facebook generation, getting married - the arranged way - in the 1970s was an exciting, fun-filled exercise in Pakistan.
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