If the thought has ever flitted through your mind that your spouse isn't 100 percent perfect, then just contemplate what Shakira Parveen is going through. And give your own husband or wife a hug.
When Ghulam Fareed proposed marriage to Ms. Parveen, he fingered prayer beads and seemed gentle and pious. Ms. Parveen didn't know him well, but she and her family were impressed.
"The first month of marriage was O.K.," Ms. Parveen recalled. "And then he said, you have to do whatever I tell you. If I tell you to sleep with other men, you have to do that."
It turned out that Mr. Fareed was running a brothel and selling drugs, and he intended Ms. Parveen to be his newest prostitute. "I said, 'No, I don't want to sleep with other men,' " she said, but he beat her unconscious with sticks, broke her bones and at one point set fire to her clothes. Finally, she broke and assented.
Her "husband" locked her up in one room
"For two years, I never left the house,"
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