Grandmother: (Angrily) O! Woman, what is up? …. Don’t wash unnecessarily….. If you wash hundred times, my son doesn’t need you anymore….. My son needs a good wife… did you understand or not?
Shazia: (worriedly) Dear aunt, I am washing my daughter cloths, they are full of smoke…. The stove makes a lot of smoke…..
Grandmother: (angrily) it is not necessary, my new daughter in law will wash them, Stand…..stand … gather your cloths…. You are going tomorrow to court to get the divorce….. Wash all the cloths in your mom’s house. ..
Shazia: (Apologizes) Please dear aunt…. Don’t do so… I have been salve here for a long time…. I grew my children…..what is my faulty now that Zaki divorce me….have you seen any fault from me?
Grandmother: (angrily) it is enough… don’t show yourself innocent unnecessarily….don’t make new the old issues… if you were a good woman you would not give birth to daughter all the time…my son needs to have son…. Why his house should be without light? See other people …. Everyone has at least two sons…
( voice of shaking the cloths and spreading on cloths line)
Shazia: (spitefully) what is my fault dear aunt? This is God’s work….
Grandmother: (angrily) don’t be impudent….you does so abusiveness…
Shazia: (uncomfortably) this is not just… no problem if Zaki gets married again…. What I should say? Why he send me out of the house? …. What will happen to me? What will happen to my children? What the people will tell?
Grandmother: (angrily) is it just that my son’s house is without light…. The widow of Khalil always gives birth to son… she will arrange my son’s house…she has already agreed…. Zaki will accept her suggestion and will divorce you…this is good… otherwise you will die by spite…
Shazia: (with full throat) by your permission I am going to road I will return soon back…
Grandmother: (calls) ok you go… you will go soon or late… (Voice of opening and closing the door)
{Music}
Voice of tailoring machine
Nooria: (breaths deeply) what I can say dear…. No problem…. don’t worry so much…
Shazia (spitefully) Zaki is divorcing me…. What I can do Nooria? The condition that widow woman is that Zaki should divorce me …. If Zaki divorce me what will happen to my children…they are very small…I have separated recently Roya from breast…Rabiya has only three and half years…Sadaf just completed five years… if I go what will happen to them? How they will grow with step mother?
Nooria: (Uncomfortably) Oh Shazia you are right…. It is also hard for you to grow the children…
Shazia: (Uncomfortably) if they gave me my children I could grow them… I would do washing… I would do tailoring in the house…I would be a cleaner somewhere… I could do something…. But they are giving my children… May God give them justice …. What is my fault that my all children are daughters?
Nooria: (Uncomfortably) you are right. May God give them just… when you say that you can pass the day with your children then why don’t you take your children?
Shazia: (sighs) the women don’t have right to take their children… they cannot take their children… I wish it was possible….
Nooria: You mean you don’t know dear Shazia?
Shazia: (Astonishingly) I did not understand what you are telling? What I am unaware of?
Nooria: (Kindly) see when divorce happens between the man and woman, if the woman wants she can undertake fostering of the children as she can keep the daughter to nine years of age and the boy for seven years, after the children go to their father, they will be with father till 18 years …. After 18 they themselves can decide whom to be with….
Shazia: (happily) May God bless you dear sister… you mean that I can keep my children with me a few years?
Nooria: (Happily) yes dear… Whenever you go to court, tell to judge that you want to keep your children till they gets legal age… tell to judge that you would stay at father house and would work…tell him that you would get a job and you can take care of them…
Shazia: (Happily) Thank God that that I came to you… You made me well aware of everything… I will tell to judge tomorrow.
{Music}
Shazia: Dear judge I want to keep my children till the law let me….
Zaki: (astonishingly and angrily) do you know what you are telling? Why the children with you… if you think so you also need to know that the children would be with husband not with wife… O! Women don’t say nonsenses…
Judge: (smilingly) No…. you are not right… according to law the mother can keep her daughter for nine years and her son for seven years… then the father would be responsible to undertake their fostering…
Zaki: (angrily) Dear judge don’t do jokes… I am going to give my children to this woman… how she will provide the alimony for them… how she will grow them…
Judge: (kindly) let me see your dossier once…. You have three daughters with two, three and half, and six month’s ages…. If Mrs. Shazia can keep her children she has the right according to law to undertake their fostering till nine years of age.
Shazia: (smilingly) Dear judge I am working as pion in of the governmental offices… I am also tailoring at home… by help of God I would be able to keep them… you know that Roya is in very small age as I have weaned her recently… it is sin…
Judge: (kindly) it is right… According to law you can be the fosterer of your children
Zaki: (angrily) where did this new issue arise from? The woman doesn’t have the right to keep the children…
Judge: (kindly) this is now new issue… now this is a part of the law… the women also have the rights… you must know that the woman is also a human… the women also have the rights.
Shazia: (happily) Thanks God… May God bless you Dear Judge…?
Message of drama: In case of divorce the women have the right to undertake fostering of girls up to 9 years and fostering the boys up to 7 years, considering the law let us permit the women to enjoy their rights.
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