agreed!!!
i was 28 when i got married and i’m going to be 31 soon iA and haven’t yet started on having babies. so i got the age subtext for both marriage, and now, for babies, and i hear where you’re coming from, but as others have stated- its not when you marry, its who you marry that counts. you wouldn’t want to just marry the first guy who walked in just cos you’re going to be 24, right? so screw the subtext and live your life and kudos, btw, on doing your Masters. that’s a great achievement! also, 24 is YOUNG, my friend! you have so much time ahead of you and insha’Allah when you do marry, it’ll be the right time for YOU and for your future husband, and everyone else can suck it.
honestly, pakistan is like a little bubble of weirdness. everyone is so concerned with age and babies and marriage and just caught up in this little world where nothing else of significance ever happens and education and careers for women are STILL secondary issues and its 2010, for God's sake! i know this isn't everyone and i know there are always exceptions, but i'm speaking generally. i just got back from karachi and it was like a refresher course in backward thinking and it made me SO glad to God that i only spent 5 years there and AH have the fortune to live in a country where there is so much more to life and living and marriages and having families than just a head-on race against time.