ISLAMABAD: In the old days, it was negotiations about dowries that took up the bulk of time when a marriage was being arranged. Would there be a car or cash, would the groom be set up in business, would the women of his family be laden with gold, would the bride arrive with roomfuls of furniture or handfuls of gold?
These considerations may still take up time, but in middle-class Pakistan’s migration-based marriage market, a new and crucial factor has become the nationality of the prospective bride or groom.
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