“Divorce is easy in Pakistan—you do mot havq to go to a Court. But you can’t find as many people Al you eould count on your fingers who are divorced,” said Mr Q. S. Khan in a talk at the Travel Club in Wellington last week. He believed that there was much to be said for the custom of unions arranged by families. It was generally successful, he said. If the marriage choice were based on the experience of parents. The muihvaunted mutual love and trust of the Western civilisation were often merely a fanev for the shape of the nose or the colour of the hair.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26244, 16 October 1950, Page 2
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