A Suitable Husband

The final programme ‘A Suitable Husband’ gives an in-depth look inside Pakistan’s law courts and throws an intimate light on Islamic marriage by following two cases of divorce. Asma and Kausar who are both 20 and both are trying to escape from unsuitable husbands. Asma’s husband is 45 with two other wives and a grandchild. Kausar has been forcibly married to a cousin – he is just 12. Pakistan’s legal system allows women to divorce their husbands, but socially it is still unacceptable. Alia Malik, the young lawyer representing Asma, is one of a new generation of female lawyers trying to win cases for women in a hostile climate. A climate made all the more difficult by both husbands who are contesting the divorce.