Aasmani Rishtay

According to an estimate, 10 million girls are unmarried in Pakistan and their parents are waiting for the suitable matches for them. Every rising day they start waiting for someone to select them as their life partners and every sunset brings news of ‘no one came’. Disappointments and depression overwhelm them and different psychological problems appear in their life. Parents blame themselves to have daughters and the girls allege themselves to be born as girls. High standards of our society and double standards of the parents of boys contribute to a massive number of these unmarried girls. Why are parents of boys not empathetic towards the family of girls? They seek for a daughter-in-law resembling moon irrespective of appearance and look of their son.

Out of the main reasons of this gigantic number, there is a tendency of impressing others with the selection of superb daughter-in-law. Relatives and friends are the audience of this show off who are feared to make fool if daughter-in-law is not extremely beautiful, smart and cool.

Dowry is the other main reason of this issue. Those who are not financially strong are doomed to suffer like this. They do not have money to buy cars, heavy machinery, plots, and house to their daughter in dowry. And the result is the daughters turn gray-headed at home of parents. Marriage is a bargain in other words.

Appearance is the only criterion to select a girl as life partner. It means those who have not been born with so-called beauty, will not find matches. girls with less height or with any physical problem are denied to get selected as life partners.