Society is cruel and this has been established time and again in this world. Women especially have to go through a lot and any woman who goes out and works has a lot of pressure to deal with. In Pakistan, women can have only certain professions where they can work agreeably and they will be judged if they break out of that mould. One such woman who has been working in the outside world and changed her appearance into a man is Farheen Ishtiaq who is also known as the real life Bakhtawar.
Farheen has been working in Lahore for years and she is a single mother who is bringing up her 15 year old daughter. She was a guest on Morning With Fiza and she talked about how her life came about as it is today.
Farheen revealed that she got married 16 years ago and it was a love marriage. Her marriage only stayed on for 6 months and her husband disappeared on her. She has since been working her socks off to support her child.
She revealed that she tried to look for him for a whole year and then realized that he had played her. She then never went looking for him again. He contacted her a year after disappearing and asked to give him their child, a child he did not even know was a girl or a boy. Her daughter is 15 now and she wanted to connect with her father. Farheen asked her daughter that she has no problems if she can find her father and meet him but she knows the kind of man hee ex husband is.
Here is Farheen’s story:
