For fourteen years, Tehmina suffered alone, in silence. Violently possessive and pathologically jealous, Mustafa Khar succeeded in cutting her off from the outside world. Her marriage to Mustafa Khar, one of Pakistan's most eminent political figures, soon turned into a nightmare. Like all women of her rank, she was expected to marry a prosperous Muslim from a respectable family, bear him many children and lead a sheltered life of leisure. Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society.
