Unbelievable: Husband And Wife Discover They Are Brother And Sister After 24 Years

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A husband and wife have been horrified
after discovering they are actually brother
and sister after 24 long years.




A Pakistani couple united in an arranged
marriage over 24 years ago recently learnt
that they were in fact of the same parents,
SMACK reports.



The siblings, who were separated as
children after the tragic death of their
parents, were later adopted by different
families until they later married each other.



It took about 24 years for them to realise
the truth.


“We thought our marriage was normal, we
thought we were cousins” explained Abdul
Rahim, 47.



“Everybody in town knew we were brother
and sister but no one had the courage to tell
us until now,” said the sister turned wife,
Aisha, in tears.



Anthropologist Juliane Edwards, who has
studied the case of incestuous arranged
marriages in Pakistan for decades is not
surprised the least by the situation.



“It’s a cultural thing. When endogamous
consanguineous marriages, or marriages
between cousins, is socially acceptable, then
marriage between siblings doesn’t seem as
far-fetched,” she explained.



“I’ve repeatedly studied cases in Pakistan
where widowed fathers would marry one
or more of their daughters,” she admitted.



“I’ve heard of one case where one man’s
daughter was allegedly very ugly and could
not find a husband, so he forced his son to
marry his own sister as a punishment for
being lazy,” she recalls.



Last year, a Pakistani Federal Shariat Court
judge made international headlines after
refusing to allow a woman to divorce her
brother from an arranged marriage stating
that being siblings “was not enough of a
justification” to obtain court approval for
divorce under Sharia law.