Honour Killing by Imtiaz Dharker: GCSE
Honour Killing by Imtiaz Dharker In Lahore, in the last year of the twentieth century, A woman was shot by her family in her lawyer’s office. Her crime was that she had asked for a divorce. The whole Pakistan Senate refused to condemn the act. They called it an honour killing. At last I'm taking off this coat, this black coat of a country that I swore for years was mine, that I wore more out of habit than design. Born wearing it, I believed I had no choice. I'm taking off this veil, this black veil of a faith that made me faithless to myself, that tied my mouth, gave my god a devil's face, and muffled my own voice. I'm taking off these silks, these lacy things that feed dictator dreams, the mangalsutra and the rings rattling in a tin cup of needs that beggared me. I'm taking off this skin, and then the face, the flesh, the womb. Let's see what I am in here when I squeeze past the easy cage of bone. Let's see w