Whats the going rate for a husband nowadays?

sheyn · May 30, 2009, 2:12am

Mirch:

I have lived in Peshawar for months at a time. One of my uncles is a native of Peshawar. One of my bhabee (May Allah grant her Jannat. Ameen) was his daughter. She practically raised me. So I have first hand information.

I have dug out an online resource for you to refer too.

Unison of Another Kind :: Khyber.ORG

An excerpt from this article:
The custom of buying brides is rooted in the tribal area’s culture and the bride-money has risen sharply because tribesmen gainfully employed in the Gulf States are able to offer a higher price for the girls of marriageable age. In comparison, girls could be bought much cheaper from peasant families settled in districts such as Mardan, Charsadda, Swat and Malakand Agency. Husbands and families paying huge amounts of money for girls often consider them as some kind of property instead of wives and treat them accordingly.

Nutwer:

Mai Ik Baat kehan chaoon ga

umeed hai bora nai banaya jai ga.

People camplaining of jahez mater in this thread= Very useless.
We face this ill of society of jahez, like other ill of society that we blame on others is not due to wrong society but due to our own wrong selves and greedy + deviance.

us all pakistani people girl and boy both greedy for jahez, then we point finger on other, but when we not right ourselfvs then how can make society better?
we all greedy lalej wale pakistani, until we not start making good charcter and sacrifice from inside ourself and home we can not spread to outisde home.

all girls in shadi r like liitle girls like dncings and dikava and shor sharaba.
all girls want to be like madhuri dixit and reema.
if girls act maturly then daadies money will be saved.
u want so much gold and jewelrries

all girls become like bachis in mehendis

aur sheyn ji, ye sahi waqeya hai, in peshwar lot of patans that are uneducated family give thier daughters for 1 or 2 lac, for only nikah.

You seem to have confused issue of giving Haq Mehr and distorted it into something that its not !

***Haq mehr is the womans right according to Islam and people give Haq mehr depending on their social and financial status , so it can range from anything like money or gold to even property that is written in the woman’s name . ***

I am sure other ethnicites of Pakistan also practice the same rituals however as always people like to ostracize a particular ethnicity and i suppose no one else in Pakistan does haq mehr coz they be hindus innit.. :chai: