LAHORE – A Pakistani woman on Wednesday approached a Punjab court to revokeher nikah with her Chinese husband.
Rabeea, who tied the knot with Zhang Su Chan earlier this year, ran awayfrom China after reportedly being tortured by her husband.
She has now filed a case for dissolution of marriage at the court of seniorcivil judge Shabana Hameed in Gujranwala.
In her petition, the woman maintained that after she went to her husband’shome in China, he subjected her to torture.
However, she approached the police through Pakistani Embassy and succeededin returning Gujranwala with the help of the police.
The case comes to light amid an ongoing clamp down against alleged sextrafficking racket of Chinese nationals in Pakistan.
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In an intelligence-based operation on Wednesday, the human trafficking cellof Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) recovered three Pakistani women anddetained 14 Chinese nationals who were allegedly involved in thetrafficking of Pakistani women on the false pretext of marriages.
According to media reports, one of the girls who was recovered by FIA isunderage and revealed that she had married a Chinese man who pretended tobe Muslim on the internet but later she found out that the man is atheist.
Weapons, Chinese passports, illicit medicines and gold ornaments amongothers were also recovered during the raid.
