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| PoK man uses Scot teen as 'bride' |
| 2008-08-17 |
| LONDON: A Scottish teenage girl has alleged that she was paid £100 to marry a Pakistani in a sham marriage after he was forced to leave Scotland. Before being deported, Shafiq Chaudhry proposed 17-year-old Claire Given, who worked at his family kabab shop in Catrine, Ayrshire, in a tele-conversation from the Dungavel detention centre, the Sunday Mail reported. The report said Claire accepted his proposal despite having known him for only about a few weeks and agreed to marry him in the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir town of Mirpur. "I don't know why I went ahead with it. I didn't love Shafiq and I didn't really want him. I was just stupid and naive," Claire admitted. "Shafiq was in Scotland on a six-month visa but had over stayed for three years. Last June he was stopped for driving without a license following which the authorities discovered that he was staying illegally." "I first met him at his uncle's house in Glasgow and we were together for a few weeks but he was seeing someone else and we broke up before he was taken to Dungavel. He phoned me from there last July and proposed. I was drunk and agreed to go to Pakistan and marry him. His Uncle Farooq arranged everything," Claire alleged. Claire said Farooq arranged the wedding last November. "In the time I knew Shafiq I only had sex with him once - on our wedding night. Then he arranged for me to have my contraceptive implant removed at a private hospital," she alleged. "I felt pressured into doing that but I agreed. In Pakistan the women do what the men say. We never had sex again. I didn't want to be 17 and pregnant," Claire said. |
| Posted by:john frum |