‘I was to marry some guy in the village’

HER father said it would be a two-week holiday to learn about her Pakistani heritage.

But the British woman soon found herself captive in a remote tribal village for over a year and promised in marriage to a first cousin she’d never met.

With the British High Commission’s help this month, the woman escaped Pakistan shortly before her planned wedding, avoiding the kind of forced marriage that scores of foreign women annually are forced to make in this deeply conservative Islamic country.