I AM MORE THAN A MARRIAGE: WHY PAKISTAN GIRLS NEED CHANGE

''I can feel her staring at me. Who is she? Does she know me? Did we meet when I was younger? I begin mulling these thoughts over and then turn around and politely smile at her. She smiles too. She says nothing. Still nothing.

I turn back around. However, I can't help wanting to look at her again. So I do. She is still staring, but this time, she isn't the only one. Four other women are now huddled around her, whispering, nodding, and smiling at me. My face flushes and I become extremely uncomfortable knowing that I was being so carefully analyzed, but before I can move the youngest woman in the group makes her way to me, sits down, and begins to speak.

The first question she asks is whether I'm engaged or married. And the rest is routine: what degree do you have? What's your father's name? What area are you from? After she got all the information she needed, she left...''

by Nidha Khan, IATG Contributor