I'm referring to the documentary currently on BBC2.
The documentary follows the lives of several Mancunians (residents of Manchester). Manchester is an industrial city in the North of England.
One of the Mancunians is Lubna a Pakistani girl who has just joined the Manchester Metropolitan police force. She is an intelligent (graduate), articulate and assertive. Something few Pakistani girls are here in the UK. Consider the shock I got when in last weeks episodes she came back from Pakistan with a husband !
She has married this native Pakistani and while he stays at home she works in the police force.
In yesterdays episode he said 'a womans place in the home' in broken English and there is increasing tension between the couple as Lubna starts night patrols on the rough streets of Manchester. Her husband who was quiet to begin with is now showing his typical Pakistani mysogynistic tendancies.
I am shocked that such an intelligent girl would choose to marry a native Pakistani. I can only forsee a rough time ahead for Lubna and her native Pakistani husband.
Farouq.
The documentary follows the lives of several Mancunians (residents of Manchester). Manchester is an industrial city in the North of England.
One of the Mancunians is Lubna a Pakistani girl who has just joined the Manchester Metropolitan police force. She is an intelligent (graduate), articulate and assertive. Something few Pakistani girls are here in the UK. Consider the shock I got when in last weeks episodes she came back from Pakistan with a husband !
She has married this native Pakistani and while he stays at home she works in the police force.
In yesterdays episode he said 'a womans place in the home' in broken English and there is increasing tension between the couple as Lubna starts night patrols on the rough streets of Manchester. Her husband who was quiet to begin with is now showing his typical Pakistani mysogynistic tendancies.
I am shocked that such an intelligent girl would choose to marry a native Pakistani. I can only forsee a rough time ahead for Lubna and her native Pakistani husband.
Farouq.
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