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A Pakistani bride signing her Nikah paper. A typical Pakistani wedding, or Shaadi (شادی) consists of two main events - the Nikah and Walima. Arranged and semi-arranged marriages in Pakistan often take long periods of time to finalize and up to a year or more can elapse from the day of engagement until the wedding ceremony.
Ubtan [clarification needed] is supposed to bring a glow to the bride's and groom's body, especially on their faces. This tradition is also known as Shaint in some cultures. After this ritual, the bride and groom are constrained from meeting each other until the wedding ceremony. [1] Punjabi shagun register.
Indian wedding card. Indian wedding cards are cards that are made and distributed to invite guests to the wedding ceremony and to honour and commemorate the wedding of two people. Since the medieval period, Indian wedding cards have carried great importance in the Indian subcontinent, and are known through several names such as ...
Walima. Walima ( Arabic: وليمة, romanized :Walīma ), or the wedding reception banquet, is the second of the two traditional parts of an Islamic wedding. The walima is performed after the nikah ( Arabic: نكاح) or marriage ceremony. It designates a feast in Arabic. The walima is used as a symbol to show domestic happiness in the ...
Shaadi.com is an Indian online wedding service founded in 1997. Its core market is India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, but the company operates globally, with offices in Canada, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Watta satta or shighar (Urdu: ،شغار،وٹہ سٹہ) is an exchange marriage common in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The custom involves the simultaneous marriage of a brother-sister pair from two households. In some cases, it involves uncle–niece pairs, or cousin pairs.
NADRA is also responsible to issuing the Computerised National Identity Cards to the citizens of Pakistan, maintaining their sensitive informational upgraded in the government databases, and securing national identities of the citizens of Pakistan from being stolen and theft.
Baraat ( Hindi: बरात, Urdu: بارات) ( pronunciation ⓘ) or Varayatra ( Sanskrit: वरयात्रा, romanized : Varayātrā) [1] [2] is a groom's wedding procession in Indian subcontinent. [3] [4] In Indian subcontinent, it is customary for the bridegroom to travel to the wedding venue (often the bride 's house) on a mare ...
In Pakistan, there are two laws governing Hindu marriages. One is the Sindh Hindu Marriage Act of 2016 which is applicable in the Sindh province of Pakistan and another is the Hindu Marriage Act of 2017 which is applicable in Islamabad Capital Territory , Balochistan , Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces.
Benazir Bhutto [a] (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.