Manama: A Kuwaiti court has allowed a Kuwaiti woman to marry a Pakistani man despite her family’s stiff resistance.
The woman, 29, had filed the case to marry the man she loved after her family rejected all her pleas to allow them to get married.
“My client is a very beautiful woman who holds a degree in architecture and has an outstanding position in a government ministry,” her lawyer, Humood Al Radaan, said. “Several men had proposed to her, but she turned them down because she wanted to marry the Pakistani man she loved. He proposed to the family several times, but he was invariably rejected. He was even threatened to be deported by the woman’s brothers, who even physically assaulted him to dissuade him from thinking about marrying their sister,” he said, quoted by local daily Al Seyassah on Wednesday.
The Kuwaiti woman told the judge during the trial that she had been in love with the Pakistani man, 33, since she was a teenager when he visited their family home as he was an electrician working in a cooperative society nearby.
The woman said that she was adamant to marry him and that she would not think of marrying another man.
The lawyer said that the court should rule in her favour, arguing that all the conditions for a proper marriage were fulfilled and that the father had no ground to object to the marriage.
The court accepted the arguments and ruled in favour of the Kuwaiti woman.
“This is one of the strangest cases I have ever seen,” the lawyer told the daily. “In the beginning, I thought there was something wrong or fishy, and I sat with the Kuwaiti woman and the Pakistani man. I also sat with the woman’s friends and relatives and they confirmed her passion for the Pakistani electrician. Thankfully, the court ruled in favour of the marriage between the Kuwaiti architect and the Pakistani electrician,” he said.
