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- Title: Before I Realised It, I had Consented
- Author : Pakistan) Pakistan Today (Lahore
- Release Date : January 21, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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My personal life had taken a dramatic turn on July 29, 1987, when I agreed to an arranged marriage on the prompting of my family. An arranged marriage was the price in personal choice I had to pay for the political path my life had taken. My high profile in Pakistan precluded the possibility of my meeting a man in the normal course of events, getting to know him, and then getting married. Even the most discreet relationship would have fuelled gossip and rumour that already circulated around my every move... As an undergraduate in America during the flowering of the women's movement, I was convinced that marriage and a career were compatible, that one didn't preclude the other. I believed then, and still do, that a woman can aim for and attain all: a satisfying professional life, a satisfying marriage, and the satisfaction of children. I looked forward to marriage with a man who would pursue his goals just as I pursued mine. The military coup d'etat had changed all that...