In a good part of the book,former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is criticized,as he was an opponent of her husband's People's Party.Д«ut in the biggest irony of all,after leaving Khar,Tehmina Durrani got married to Nawaz Sharif's brother,Shahbaz Sharif ! Her own actions,motives and choices seem very questionable as she spends a long time with this man despite all his alleged cruelty and exploitation.It is a trashy book but it uses real life characters and actual political events to tell the story.ДЇinally she leaves him,and decides to write this tell all memoir. The author,herself,does not emerge smelling of roses. She even accuses her husband and younger sister,of having an illicit relationship. Khar is depicted in the worst possible way as a womaniser,extremely cruel and a political opportunist. The author left her first husband to marry him,and the way she describes it,found herself in a living nightmare.Still,she chose to stick with him,as the family was forced into exile during the Zia ul Haq years. Its subject is Ghulam Mustafa Khar,a well known Pakistani politician,former Governor of Punjab,and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's right hand man. There is no telling how much of it is fact and how much is fiction. It reads more like a trashy novel than a memoir. The author left her first husband to marry him,and the way she describes it,found herself in a living nightmare.Still,she chose to stick with him,as the family A sensational bestseller in Europe, and a much talked about book when it was published.

Try as hard as I might to do otherwise, I have ended up rating the author and not the book.ДЄ sensational bestseller in Europe, and a much talked about book when it was published. Instead of making attempts to rescue her from his clutches, she looks at the child as a sort of rival, a much younger inamorata who is trying to steal her husband.Д«eing a life story, this book is bound to be judged not by its writing style or the author's literary skills, but by the surmised virtues of the characters involved. The worst part was when her baby sister falls in the honey trap of her preying husband. It does not come off as a wolf-sheep combination at all for me to be entirely sympathetic to her ordeal. Seeing that she left her first daughter to marry her feudal lord, she doesn't come off as such a devoted and loving mother for me to buy that argument. 'I refused to let go because of the kids,' she maintains. The author tries too hard to portray herself as totally naive and innocent, preyed on by a tyrannical and cruel husband. Tehmina Durrani's story provided extraordinary insights into the vulnerable position of women caught in the complex web of Muslim society.more

Here at last was someone who had succeded in reconciling her faith in Islam with her ardent belief in women's rights. When this book was first published it shook Pakistani society to its foundations. When she decided to rebel, the price she paid was extremely high: as a Muslim woman seeking a divorce, she signed away all financial support, lost the custody of her four children, and found herself alienated from her friends and disowned by her parents.

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. Her marriage to Mustafa Khar, one of Pakistan's most eminent political figures, so Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society.

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