Re: Ethnic Nationalism in Pakistan
In Indian culture that is also Punjabi culture, you have dowry system, where bride father must pay dowry to the groom. But in Pashtun and Arab cultures it is the opposit, the groom has to pay dowry to the bride. They dowry could be money or household items like jewelry furniture etc. Considering the situation of our region(i.e. Middle East, India Pakistan and Afghanistan etc.) where most women don’t work outside home and are dependent on their male relatives, I would say the groom should pay the dowry instead of the bride father. In your Indian culture if a poor man has many daughters it will be very hard for him to marry them off.