DOWRY is Illegal
SYED IQRA BUKHARI D owry means the valuable property which parents give to their daughters at the time of their marriage. It is the never ending dream of every parent to give something to their daughter as a token of love and affection when she is uprooted and planted to somewhere else, but nowadays the system has become an evil custom and a kind of burden. Dowry is standing blot on the fair name of our society. It has created a great problem in our unlettered societies. As we all are aware of the fact that maximum suicides and murders emerge in our country due to the illicit system of dowry. It has deteriorated so many families around the globe as parents from poor backgrounds are not able to fulfill the demands provided by the boy’s family. If a bride brings poor or below demanded dowry to her new home, is either tortured physically and mentally by her greedy in-laws or she is burnt alive. Enormous numbers of women are not getting married just because their parents are...