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Naipaul’s wife finds Pak ‘horror’ now stalking UK - The Times of India

LONDON: Disturbed by cases of honour killing in Britain, Nadira Naipaul, wife of celebrated Indian-origin writer V S Naipal, says that she sees in London the same "horror" that made her flee Pakistan.

Nadira, Lady Naipaul is a Pakistani journalist and the wife of novelist Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul. She was born Nadira Khannum Alvi in Pakistan and was raised in Kenya. She worked as a journalist for Pakistani newspaper, The Nation for ten years before meeting Naipaul. They married in 1996, two months after the death of Naipaul's first wife, Patricia Hale


Writing in the Daily Mail on Sunday, Nadira, says, "I can still see the horror that made me flee Pakistan — in the haunted eyes of girls raised here... When I married V S Naipaul and moved to England in 1996, I thought I had left the horror behind."

She adds, "Pakistan had drained my resolve, and I was tired of fighting a losing battle . To me, England, for all its ills, was the promised land. Instead , I have found the horror I fled has followed me here. It is all around, eroding the very core of everything Britain believes in.

"I see it everywhere. In the haunted eyes of young Pakistani girls, brought up in Britain , who know nothing but a Westernized life: young women who work happily behind beauty counters in our department stores, yet must return home to parents who refuse to emerge from their cultural ghettos."

Cases of honour killings and forced marriages are reported from communities with origins in the Indian subcontinent . British authorities have taken several measures to prevent forced marriages. However, such cases continue to be reported, including the recent widely followed case of Shafilea Ahmed, who was killed by her parents for having westernized lifestyle.
 
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No one gives a sh1t about what this kanjri has to say, another stooge who wants to get on the bandwagon of insulting and demonising pakistanis etc in order to attain brownie points in the circles she mingles.

I don't see any of these so called specialists who understand honour based crimes highlighting the issues within other cultures.

Its not honour then but merely DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, Insanity, mental breakdown.

If you have no RESPECT & HONOUR you will never understand what HONOUR is. We will dictate our own culture and norms. If you don't like it jog the f on.
 
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No one gives a sh1t about what this kanjri has to say, another stooge who wants to get on the bandwagon of insulting and demonising pakistanis etc in order to attain brownie points in the circles she mingles.

I don't see any of these so called specialists who understand honour based crimes highlighting the issues within other cultures.

Its not honour then but merely DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, Insanity, mental breakdown.

If you have no RESPECT & HONOUR you will never understand what HONOUR is. We will dictate our own culture and norms. If you don't like it jog the f on.

So according to you it is Pakistani culture that if a Pakistani Muslim girl falls in love with a non-Muslim guy, then she should be killed? Because that is what Naipaul's wife is speaking out against...
 
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No one gives a sh1t about what this kanjri has to say, another stooge who wants to get on the bandwagon of insulting and demonising pakistanis etc in order to attain brownie points in the circles she mingles.

I don't see any of these so called specialists who understand honour based crimes highlighting the issues within other cultures.

Its not honour then but merely DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, Insanity, mental breakdown.

If you have no RESPECT & HONOUR you will never understand what HONOUR is. We will dictate our own culture and norms. If you don't like it jog the f on.
Pakistani or not, she is still a woman, show some respect at least.
 
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All the problem lies with South Asians like us who believe in "god-knows-what" superiority? Man Vs Woman, North India Vs South India, Casteism (and yes Muslims too), Ethnic groups (Punjabi Vs Sindhi Vs Pashtun Vs Muhajir in Pakistan and In India I am afraid to write all of there as that is longer list).
 
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Honor killings is part of Hindu culture and pre-islamic Subcontinent. It is very much a common occurrence in India even today.:coffee:
 
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