25 Facts About Tehmina Durrani

Tehmina Durrani is a Pakistani author known for her bestselling book My Feudal Lord, an artist, and a women's and children's rights activist.

Tehmina Durrani is the current spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif since March 2024.

Tehmina Durrani, born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan into a mixed paternal Pashtun and maternal Punjabi family, was the daughter of a former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan and managing director of Pakistan International Airlines, Shahkur Ullah Durrani.

In 1991, Tehmina Durrani wrote an autobiography titled My Feudal Lord alleging abuse by Khar.

Tehmina Durrani argued in the book that the real power of feudal landlords, like Khar, is derived from the distorted version of Islam that is supported by the silence of women and of society as a whole.

Tehmina Durrani moved in with the Edhi family and spent three years serving at Edhi Homes in Mithadar, Sorab Goth, and Kharadar, Karachi.

Tehmina Durrani became his apprentice, and got his permission to author his autobiography.

In 2003, Tehmina Durrani married thrice-elected Chief Minister of Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif.

Tehmina Durrani denied she signed a contract vesting complete foreign rights with Mohsin rather than with herself and her estate.

On 19 May 1999, Tehmina Durrani accused Sethi of stealing her book profits.

Tehmina Durrani sued Sethi for mental torture, and he countersued for defamation.

Since 2005, Tehmina Durrani has supported the social rehabilitation of women.

In 2001, Tehmina Durrani cared for Fakhra Younus, a former wife of Bilal Khar, the son of Khar from his third marriage.

Tehmina Durrani engaged the Italian cosmetics firm Sant' Angelica and the government of Italy to treat Younus.

Tehmina Durrani's most famous book, which was an overnight best seller and sensation in Pakistan as well as around the world.

Tehmina Durrani was born into one of Pakistan's most aristocratic families.

Tehmina Durrani's parents married her to Anees Khan when she was seventeen and they had a daughter together.

Tehmina Durrani was brave enough to expose her then famous husband publicly in an extremely conservative Pakistani Muslim society.

Tehmina Durrani paid a heavy price for it because she was shunned by society and her own parents disowned her.

Over a three-year period, Tehmina Durrani lived in Edhi's home and accompanied him on his visits.

Tehmina Durrani said that the story is factual, with some names and events altered to protect the identity of the women who are at the center of the story.

Tehmina Durrani describes several cases resulting in the humiliation and torture of Muslim women.

Tehmina Durrani's fourth book "Happy Things in Sorrow Times" is a novel based on the childhood and youth of an Afghan girl Rabia.

Tehmina Durrani says she found another way of expressing and conveying her feelings through art, in addition to writing.

Tehmina Durrani will be intertwining her writing and painting in her coffee table book by the same name, A Love Affair, with a print version of these paintings along with poems and songs that inspired her paintings.