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...visitor was Fakhra Yunas, a 21-year-old former dancing girl who fulfilled the Pakistani equivalent of the American Dream?marriage into a rich and powerful family?only to have her life virtually destroyed. Host Durrani was born into wealth and advantage and was a glamorous politician's wife?until she went public with her own tale of victimhood. And so, Durrani and Fakhra became a team: privileged protector and wounded ward, trying to repair some of the damage done to Fakhra's life. They have also become twin avengers determined to rip the veil from the cruelty and hypocrisy...
Last April, Fakhra was napping in her mother's home on Napier Rd., the seedy red-light section of Karachi, the country's rough-and-tumble commercial hub. It was a great distance?in every way?from what she had hoped for when she married Bilal Khar, now 36, a former politician and scion of one of Pakistan's best-known families. Five days earlier, after enduring constant physical abuse by her husband during three years of marriage, she had returned home...
...Fakhra was roused from her nap by the sound of Khar calling her name. He pushed back her head and poured liquid on her face. She thought he was forcing her to drink something. Fakhra wiped her eyes and saw her husband run from the room. She started to follow and looked down to see her clothes dissolving into her skin. Naked and suddenly burning all over, she collapsed, screaming. She had no idea what had happened...
Following Moslem practice, Yahya keeps his family-a wife, Fakhra, and two married children-well out of the public eye. His only known interest, outside of the military, is birds-all varieties. He keeps Australian parrots around President's House, and, in a specially built pool, a number of cranes and swans. He remains fussy as ever about his wavy expanse of thick, white-streaked black hair ("My strength lies in it-like Samson...