In the years after leaving her second husband, Khar, one prominent event was her hunger strike in 1993 against government corruption, and the newly coined term, 'accountability', came into being. Īs a reaction to her expository book, her family on both the paternal and maternal sides disowned her and her five children for thirteen years. She argued in the book that the real power of feudal landlords, like Khar, is derived from the distorted version of Islam that is supported by the silence of women and of society as a whole.
In 1991, Durrani wrote an autobiography titled My Feudal Lord alleging abuse by Khar. After being abused by Khar for several years, she ended her marriage of fourteen years in divorce. Durrani later married Ghulam Mustafa Khar, a former Chief Minister and Governor of Punjab. Sir Liaqat Hyat Khan's brother, Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, was a pre-1947 Punjab Premier, a statesman and leader.Īt seventeen, she married Anees Khan, and they had one daughter together. Tehmina's mother, Samina Durrani, is the daughter of Nawab Sir Liaqat Hayat Khan, the prime minister of the former princely state of Patiala. Tehmina Durrani's paternal grandfather was Major Muhammad Zaman Durrani. Tehmina Durrani, born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, is the daughter of a former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan and Managing Director of Pakistan International Airlines, Shahkur Ullah Durrani. 5.4 Happy Things in Sorrow Times (2013).
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