KARACHI:
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder as Mrs Rehana learnt in family court on Wednesday. As her husband failed to show up, she was granted khullah.
Rehana, who lives in Landhi, married Muhammad Aijaz around three months ago. She maintained that he used to make her work as a domestic helper to run the house but beat her and was involved in illegal activities.
A fed-up Rehana filed suit to dissolve the marriage. She said that her husband had left for his native village in Punjab a month ago and had told her that he would never come back.
And when he failed to show in the court of the VIIth family judge of Malir, Mrs Fateh Mubeen Nizam, she granted the khullah and Rehana walked out a free woman.
The same judge decreed in favour of another woman, Farzana nee Channa, who was married to Gul Muhammad at the age of five years through a wali identified as Abdullah Channa. In her application to the court, Farzana said that after she attained puberty she came to know that her husband was a drug user and they had a big age difference.
She said that she was not willing to marry the defendant and wanted to use her right of puberty to dissolve the marriage by way of Khullah.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 17th, 2012.
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