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My Feudal Lord

My Feudal Lord

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He knew that he had imprisoned me in loneliness, and now, he believed, God had punished him with imprisonment while I was free. And without fail each criticism, contentious and strongly worded, is tinged with hints of ingrained misogyny.

The social repercussions for a domestic abuser / serial polygamist / political honcho are still inconsequential, and as the wife of a political leader / chief minister, she is expected to play the graceful 'seen-not heard' part.

If mustafa was a psycho she also used to provoke him with her stubbornness, and the man couldn't trust her as she herself admitted because of having extra marital affairs with mustafa when married with anees. All of these women are mostly insignificant except for the fact that they caught Khar’s eye, and his spur of the eye decision to marry them resulted in their subsequent signing off of all their power to a man who was a true description of the term feudal lord. What can one really expect when one reads "European bestseller" and "a devastating indictment of women's role in Muslim society" proudly plastered together on the front cover? Was she not saying her 'Islamic prayers' when she had illicit liasons (her words, not mine) with another woman's husband while still married to Anees? Younus was denied a passport to leave Pakistan but under public pressure was later allowed to leave.

In 1994, A Mirror to the Blind, Edhi's official ‘narrated’ autobiography, was endorsed and published by the Edhi Foundation. When she married Mustafa Khar, one of Pakistan's most eminent political figures, she continued to move in the best circles, and learned to keep up the public façade as a glamorous, cultivated wife, and mother of four children. The book was an eye opener into lives and mentality of feudal lords, however what was quite obvious is that Ms Durrani is no saint as she expects people to conclude to, She herself was a debauchee, admitted to splurging the money without caring where it came from, admiring the two facedness of her double standard husband who really didnt care about the masses while pretending to be their saviour. My feudal lords Amnesty honoured him with its Journalism Under Threat award, but in Pakistan Najam Sethi is still persecuted".You don’t feel sympathy with the author instead you make strong judgements about the character and mental state of the author. Durrani denied she signed a contract vesting complete foreign rights with Mohsin rather than with herself and her estate. This sort of intertwining of the personal with the political is a thread that runs throughout the book, primarily because Mustafa Khar was a politician. One of the most intense conversations I had during the reading of this novel was in questioning the veracity of the claims put forward by Durrani. It turned out to be a surprisingly interesting read both in terms of narrative technique and content.

It’s entirely possible that all of this is true, and since her father’s eventual imprisonment ended with a trial which exonerated him, it’s also possible that historical documents can attest to this fact, but narratives can be edited to a person’s benefit, this also is true. It’s impossible to not encounter deeply held patriarchal beliefs when discussing this book in public. Miss Durrani narrates about her life and that of her husband Mr Mustafa Khar's in Pakistan(who is uncle of Hina Rabbani Khar). The political infidelity, the mere play of words and melodrama are already the sad realities of our country's political situations, but for men that identify with such duplicity, hypocrisy and instability to have rule and power adds to the readers' disappointment. What’s also very funny is the juxtaposition between the Mustafa Khar who is corrupt and uses his power to oppress those below him, and the Khar who gets the support of Zulfiqar Bhutto primarily because he is ‘a man of the country’, someone who has grown up within the feudal system and understands the fights of the downtrodden.But this book flips the switch by not even taking a more diplomatic, distant tone, but rather coming across as —there really is no other way to put this—begrudgingly admiring. Tehmina Durrani, or any one woman, can hardly be representative of the experiences of "Muslim women". Smile Again, an Italian NGO head by Clarice Felli entered Pakistan to assist in the care of mutilated women. She clothes herself in the socialist political ideals of her husband but her written word stinks of the classism and entitlement that she could never willingly surrender.

I was reading somewhere that her she is now married to the current chief-minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Shareef, and that she influences many of his political decisions. There's a lot of politics involved in the book which often made me feel that I was reading Khar's biography instead. Even if one were to simply read it as an autobiography, or a series of events, there is little to no emotional payoff. Somewhere along this decision I feel it was because Tehmina saw her mother in Mustafa Khar and by him accepting her; she felt her mother was accepting her. For him, wives were perfectly acceptable venues for expressing his anger, laying his hands on, exerting control over.Just when you realize that it is the last time for Tehmina to compromise on her self-respect and come out of the traps of this dangerous man, Khar plays too low to keep this already confused woman more confused. There's physical abuse followed by severe manipulation, where Khar easily pitted the family members against one another. She argued in the book that the real power of feudal landlords, like Khar, is derived from the distorted version of Islam that is supported by the silence of women and of society as a whole.



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