These years shadowing Edhi sahab were a thesis for the dissertation of the book. She became his apprentice, and also got his permission to author his autobiography. She moved in with the Edhi family and spent three years serving at Edhi Homes in Mithadar, Sorab Goth, and Kharadar, Karachi. In her search for someone who was in touch with the problems of the common man, and who had found a solution, she found Pakistan's most celebrated humanitarian, Abdul Sattar Edhi.
Photo: Shahnaz Minallah Years with Abdul Sattar Edhi Īfter many years of political exposure through her ex-husband, Mustafa Khar, who was a political leader, and in her struggle against corruption, she realized that the answers she was seeking would not come through politicians.
After seven days she was admitted to hospital and it was only when the prime minister of Pakistan, Moin Quraishi, visited her to break her fast did she do so. 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).