My Feudal Lord

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Damn it, you're in MY country, under the mercy of MY Govt, and our 'Hindu presence' disturbs your prayers? Most men of our society have a superiority complex and violence is used as a tool to keep weaker gender in line. This manipulation of events proves that within the narrative there is an obvious bias towards the things that Tehmina Durrani believed or knew. She will be intertwining her writing and painting in her coffee table book by the same name, A Love Affair, with a print version of these paintings along with poems and songs that inspired her paintings.

So reading the book without having at least some pre-conceived idea of what it was about was impossible. This book epitomizes what is wrong with the Pakistani "elite", the class of people who run the country with often-ill earned money and power. Unlike Tasleema Nasrin, Durrani does not challenge the Islamic point of view, instead she challenges male chauvinism in a feudal and intolerant society.Her superstitious visions, believe in perpetual conspiracies, periods of extreme religiosity and extreme emotional decisions, her artistic tendencies pointed out something about her abnormal mental state.

She was brave enough to expose her then famous husband publicly in an extremely conservative Pakistani Muslim society.This connection between the Mustafa Khar that other people saw and the reality of who he was—a vicious and cruel person—seemed to be pervasive throughout both his political life as well as his personal.

All of these women are mostly insignificant except for the fact that they caught Khar’s eye, and his spur of the eye decision to marry them resulted in their subsequent signing off of all their power to a man who was a true description of the term feudal lord.

He fed his monsters by squashing Tehmina’s hopes, her dreams, humiliating her in every aspect possible, abusing her mentally and sexually, harassing her with his grotesque profanities, controlling her with his dire threats, leaving her petrified. And no reader of history, especially in the form of a biography, should be naïve enough to assume that what they are reading is, in fact, what actually happened. This is a woman who selfishly conducted an affair with a married man while she was at the time married to a good Muslim husband. She is particularly critical of Mustafa Khar as he is shown as playboy,ruthless political animal and some one who corrupts her younger sister, a 16 year old (whom he later marries after divorcing Miss Durrani, not before making her a woman in the due process, quite a scandal). Tehmina Durrani is among Pakistan's English speaking privileged elite, yet even she could not escape getting singed by the overbearing tyranny of Pakistan's tribal/feudal/male chauvinistic culture.