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Punjabi Love Story
A STUDYGUIDE by Marguerite O’Hara
www.metromagazine.com.au
www.theeducationshop.com.au
Overview > This is a story about love and marriage, loyalty and
friendship, customs and traditions, set in a place many Australians know little about.
In following the developing relationships between two young couples in the Punjab
region of Pakistan, universal values of love, friendship, family tensions and marriage
are shown against the background of a country where change can be rapid and
sometimes difficult for people of different generations to accept.
Synopsis Narrated by Jocelyn, the story seam- tween him and the anti-American lobby,
lessly moves from the upstairs to the now emboldened by their support in
A
n Australian woman, Joce- downstairs, from the lounge room into Parliament. There are daily reports of
lyn Ortt-Saeed, lives with her the kitchen. This soap opera of love Anti-American rallies in Lahore and
Pakistani husband, Mohammed affairs and youthful angst happens Karachi, and ever-growing resentment
Saeed, in their home of many years in against a backdrop of deep-rooted against the Presidency. This political
the Husain Sugar Mill, in the Punjab political change in Pakistan. unrest adds a new dimension to the
region of Pakistan. Saeed is general daily life of the Sugar Mill compound.
manager of the sugar mill, and Jocelyn For the first time in the history of Pa-
has set up a school. Two young people, kistan, hard-line religious parties have The Filmmaker:
Nawaz the cook and Mehnaz the maid, been voted into power in the general Kay Rasool
look after their house, and live nearby. elections. The new Government is
sworn into Parliament in December Kay Rasool graduated in Journalism
The Sugar Mill compound is sur- 2002. Pro-American Military chief Gen- in 1998 at the University of Technol-
rounded by a high wall, topped with eral Musharraf is still the President of ogy, Sydney, and has since produced
barbed wire. The only access is the Nation, but the struggle erupts be- and directed several award-winning
through a gate manned by guards, documentaries in Australia that have
keeping out all but the residents and screened at major film festivals around
legitimate visitors, making it a world in the world. She is currently developing
itself. Outside these walls is the dusty her first feature film.
and ramshackle town of Jaranwala,
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and beyond that, the farms which Curriculum Links
supply sugarcane to the mill. Using Punjabi Love Story in
the classroom
Filmed over eighteen months, this
observational documentary captures This documentary will be of specific
the lives and loves of this household. interest and relevance to teachers and
Punjabi Love Story is an observational documentary written, directed and produced by Kay Rasool. It was filmed in 2002-2003.
secondary students from years 7-12 is Pervez Musharraf, Head of generally 2.5 per cent of the total
studying: Government and Prime Minister is savings for a rich man working in
Shaukat Aziz. trade or industry, and ten or twenty
• Studies of Society and Environ- • With Western borders to Iran and per cent of the annual produce
ment (SOSE/HSIE) Afghanistan, Pakistan has been for agriculturists. This money or
• International Studies under pressure from Western produce is distributed among the
• Studies of Asia countries including America not poor. Also, one may give twenty-five
• Cultural Studies to allow militants to hide in the per cent of found treasure such as
• Political Studies country. In some parts of Pakistan money won in a non-gambling lot-
• Media Studies society, there is strong anti-Ameri- tery. You must give to the needy.
• English can feeling, particularly concerning Fasting (Sawm) – refraining from eating,
• Religion and Society General Musharraf’s perceived drinking or satisfying sexual needs
close relationship with the Ameri- from dawn to dusk in the month of
Learning Outcomes can government. Ramadan, the ninth month in the
• In October 2005, a massive Islamic lunar calendar.
The themes and activities developed earthquake devastated many areas The Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) – this
in this study guide will have interest and communities in the North- is done during the month of Zul
and relevance for students from the West Province and Kashmir areas. Hijjah, and is compulsory once in a
junior to senior years of secondary 73,000 people were killed and lifetime for one who has the ability
school and relate to the following thousands of families were made to do it. If the Muslim is in ill health
learning outcomes: homeless. A massive relief effort is or in debt, he or she is not required
still underway to help the people to perform Hajj.
• Understanding the core values of rebuild their towns and lives.
groups and societies • Australia imports goods from Paki- Education
• Exploring the nature of marriage in stan including fine bed and table
different cultures and societies linens, floor coverings, a range of While boys and girls may attend the
• Explaining how diverse cultures and woven textiles and rice. same school they are generally taught
groups value family relationships • The Punjab region where this in separate classes.
• Developing an understanding of documentary is set produces many
the changing attitudes towards crops including wheat, cotton, rice Women and girls often wear a hijab/
caste and class in countries such and sugarcane. headdress or veil to cover their face.
as Pakistan • Until March 2006 there was an In some Western countries like France,
• Exploring the roles of women in an official ban on showing films from female students are not permitted to
Islamic society. neighbouring India which has an wear the hijab in government schools,
enormous popular film industry, or indeed any religious attire that may
Jaranwala, the small town where the producing amongst others, roman- be part of their faith. This issue has
story is set, is two hours drive from tic singing and dancing stories also been debated in Australia.
Lahore, in the Punjab Region. Lahore known as Bollywood films.
is a large city south of the capital Glossary
Islamabad. Understanding religious
and social traditions in • Sufi – a Muslim Holy man, usually
Information about Pakistan a mystic
Pakistan • Chapattis – flat bread eaten with
With ninety-six per cent of the popula- most meals, generally made in
• Islamabad is the capital city of tion Muslim, it is helpful when watch- home kitchens
Pakistan. ing this film to understand the basic • Caste – groups often defined and
• Lahore, a city of 8.5 million people, beliefs of the people, as they govern identified by a particular occupa-
is the provincial capital of the many aspects of daily life. tion. People are expected to mix
Punjab region. and marry within their family caste.
• Pakistan’s population is 165 million. The five pillars of Islam are: This social system originated in
• Religion: Ninety-six per cent of The profession of faith in Allah (Sha- India but is also still followed in
population Islamic, four per cent hadah) – the declaration that there other countries.
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Christian, Hindu and others. is none worthy of worship except • NGO – non-government organiza-
• In 1947 the country achieved inde- Allah and that Muhammad is his tion, generally involved with health,
pendence from Great Britain. messenger. education and welfare
• Pakistan is an Islamic Republic Prayer (Salat) – establishing of the five
with an elected government. daily Prayers.
• Head of State and President The paying of alms (Zakat) – which is
Student
Activity 1
Before Watching Punjabi Love Story > Read the following questions and
record your answers. Sharing responses to these questions should assist you to
understand and respond to some of the issues explored in this documentary.
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1. In the words of an old song, do you believe that ‘love 4. Why do you think women wear the hijab or veil?
and marriage go together like a horse and carriage’? 5. Which country has the largest Muslim population?
2. Do you believe that getting married and having children 6. Write down five things you know about Pakistan.
is the most important thing people can do? 7. What range of educational opportunities do you think
3. What is your understanding of ‘an arranged marriage’? are open to women in Pakistan?
Student
Activity 2
Pre-viewing research > Working in small groups, select one of these topics and
using internet resources, (some of which are referenced at the end of this guide),
prepare a report for the rest of your class.
1. Research the recent history of Pakistan over the past and wife of Saeed
100 years, explaining how the tensions with neighbour- Mohammed Saeed – Manager of the local Sugar Mill, hus-
ing India have developed. band to Jocelyn
2. What is the West’s current relationship with Pakistan? Mohammed Nawaz – cook to the Saeed family and sugar
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3. Research how the institution of marriage has changed cane plant worker
over the past 100 years. Habiba – Nawaz’ wife
Mehnaz Anwar – maid to the Saeeds
The main characters in this story Shahzad – Mehnaz’ husband
Jocelyn Ortt-Saeed – founder/patron of a local school, poet
Student
Activity 3
Running sheet for viewing the program > These questions ask you to look closely
at the three central relationships in this documentary, between Jocelyn and Saeed,
between Nawaz and Habiba, and between Mehnaz and Shahzad. The story develops
over eighteen months. It is narrated by Jocelyn Saeed and moves between the three
pairs of couples, each relationship and life contrasting with the others.
As you watch the film, think about (1) Opening scenes and Mehnaz from the scene in
how being filmed and recorded might the kitchen of the Saeed house?
influence the way people behave and The opening sequence of the film Do they seem to get on together?
speak in this film. shows the sugar mill in Jaranwala, What does Nawaz predict for
and then cuts to an Australian woman Mehnaz from reading her palm?
Is it possible to be natural, spontane- singing. We see two young Pakistanis 2. Where does Mehnaz live?
ous and honest when you know your arriving at the house. Jocelyn Saeed 3. What do we find out about
words and actions are being filmed? then tells us something about her life. Mehnaz’ mother?
4. What is Mehnaz’s mother’s attitude
Think about programs you may watch 1. How did she come to be living in towards her daughter and mar-
on television, often called ‘reality TV Pakistan? riage?
programs’ and consider how the style 2. How long has she been there? 5. How long has Nawaz been work-
and substance of this film is both 3. How is Jocelyn dressed? ing for the Saeeds?
similar to and different from the more 4. What is her husband Saeed’s job? 6. Where does he live?
artificially created households we may 5. How many children do Jocelyn and 7. Who is he married to?
see on Big Brother or Survivor. Saeed have? 8. Where does his wife live?
6. How are the two young people, 9. How does Nawaz describe his
These questions break the film up into Nawaz and Mehnaz, part of the marriage?
ten sections, or episodes. You may Saeed household? 10. How much privacy is there for the
decide to divide your class into small 7. What are their jobs? people in the household where
groups with each group responsible 8. Describe the Saeed’s house and Habiba lives?
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for making notes on a couple of sec- the grounds and gardens in which 11. How would you respond to the
tions. it is set. teasing of Habiba that happens
amongst the women?
You could write catchy titles for each (2) Nawaz, Mehnaz and their 12. Describe the personalities of
‘episode’ which give a flavour of the families Nawaz and Mehnaz.
episode, such as ‘(1) Is everything
sweet at the sugar mill house?’ 1. What do we learn about Nawaz 
(3) The Saeed’s life 13. In what sense might the Saeed’s 6. How did you respond to Jocelyn
marriage be described as ‘mixed’? reading one of her poems at the
1. What is Saeed’s job? 14. What do you think Jocelyn is hand- committee meeting? What is the
2. How many workers are there at the ing out to the compound workers poem about?
sugar mill? in her living room? 7. Why do Nawaz and Habiba travel
3. Why did Saeed not retire from to Lahore with Jocelyn?
managing the sugar mill? (4) Mehnaz heartbroken, 8. How do they spend their time in
4. What do we learn about people’s Habiba not happy Lahore?
attitudes to President Musharraf 9. What do we learn about each of
from the television news footage? 1. Why is Mehnaz ‘heartbroken’? their expectations of marriage?
5. What is the immediate background 2. Why can’t she marry Suhail? 10. Why do you think there is an off-
in world events that might help to 3. How does Nawaz react to Mehnaz’ season in summer at the sugar
explain the hostility to Musharraf? news? mill?
(This is 2002 and Pakistan’s posi- 4. Why is Nawaz’ wife Habiba 11. What is the purpose of the Sufi’s
tion in the world is difficult both unhappy? visit to Saeed?
politically and geographically) 5. The two young women in this story 12. What does Jocelyn’s household do
6. What did Jocelyn say to Saeed are unhappy for different reasons. on 11 September 2002?
in her telegram of 1959? (before How recognizable and universal
emails and long-distance phone are their responses and how far (6) Mehnaz in love again
calls, telegrams were the quickest are they particular to the lives of
way of contacting people) young people in Pakistan? 1. Why does Mehnaz’ mother
7. Describe the school Jocelyn disapprove of her new boyfriend,
Saeed established. Who attends it (5) More about marriage; Shahzad?
and how many students are now Jocelyn and Saeed, Nawaz 2. What caste does he come from?
enrolled? and Habiba 3. What caste does Mehnaz’ family
8. Who is Jocelyn meeting off the belong to?
train in Lahore? 1. Where do Jocelyn’s visitors come 4. How do we know how strongly
9. Why are these visitors coming to from to visit her? Mehnaz’ mother is opposed to the
Jaranwala? 2. What is the purpose of their visit? match between her daughter and
10. In what religion were the Saeed 3. How did her marriage to Saeed Shahzad? What does she threaten
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children raised? come about? to have done?
11. What is Jocelyn Saeed’s religious 4. What type of marriage ceremony 5. Why does Saeed ask Mehnaz and
background and beliefs? did they have? Shahzad to leave the compound?
12. What evidence is there that she 5. What is the purpose of the meeting 6. What is Shahzad’s job and finan-
still observes her own religious of the Health, Education and Lit- cial position?
traditions? eracy Committee Jocelyn attends? 7. What was Nawaz’ advice to
Mehnaz about how to win Habiba. What are some of the dif- 5. What is the atmosphere like when
Shahzad? ficulties they are facing? Nawaz visits Mehnaz and Shahzad
8. Where are Mehnaz and Shahzad 5. What does Nawaz do in response after their marriage? Why do you
now living? to Habiba’s claims of ill-treatment think the social situation seems
9. Which members of Mehnaz’ at the hands of his family? awkward between the three?
immediate family are supportive 6. Why does Nawaz say it is too dif- 6. Why does Shahzad tell Mehnaz to
of her wish to marry Shahzad and ficult to have Habiba at the Saeed put on her veil?
which are opposed to it? Does this compound? 7. What did Mehnaz and Nawaz fight
indicate a difference in attitudes 7. In response to her uncles’ threats about when they were both back
between the generations? to attack Mehnaz, where does working at the Saeed house?
10. Shahzad believes he will eventually Shahzad take her to live until 8. What was Saeed’s response to
be accepted by Mehnaz’ mother things quieten down? Mehnaz’ complaints about Nawaz?
and uncles. He says ‘Why does 8. Why do the Saeeds hire a new 9. Nawaz says he has a reputation
caste matter so much to you? The cook and find Nawaz a job at the for being ‘a ladies’ man’, and that
world has moved on but not you’. sugar mill? Mehnaz as a working girl is not
Is this the main problem? 9. What advantages does Nawaz’ someone he would marry, but
11. Mehnaz’ mother says she will not sugar mill job have over being the rather ‘someone to have fun with’.
visit her younger daughter or have Saeed’s cook? He says that ‘Habiba has led a
her attend her funeral. What do 10. Why is Habiba happier now? restricted life … that’s what we
you think are the reasons for her 11. What do Mehnaz and Shahzad like – someone who is untouched,
attitude? squabble about? not the free ones’. What do these
12. Mehnaz, although she is living with 12. What is the final outcome of remarks tell us about his attitudes
Shahzad, says she won’t have a Mehnaz’ family’s attitude to her towards women?
proper wedding until her mother marriage? 10. Mehnaz says of her marriage to
accepts her choice of husband. Shahzad, ‘I think I’ve done the
(9) Meanwhile back at the right thing … now we have to
(7) Jocelyn, Nawaz and Saeeds put up with each other, whatever
conflict happens’. What signs are there in
1. Jocelyn tells us about her own these scenes in the film that their
1. Nawaz talks about the bombings family’s response to her marriage marriage will or won’t last?
in Pakistan and says that ‘Muslims to Saeed. How did her father refer 11. Saeed and Jocelyn are in Lahore.
are selling out’. To what is he refer- to Saeed? He says that people did not believe
ring? 2. Who are Jocelyn’s latest visitors their marriage would work. What
2. After her swim in the lap pool, from Australia? does Saeed attribute its success
Jocelyn seems rather cranky with 3. What is her daughter intending to to? Jocelyn acknowledges that as
Nawaz, her cook. What are some do during her visit? a poet she is idiosyncratic and can
of her complaints and criticisms of 4. Jocelyn’s daughter says, ‘I am be difficult to live with. Yet they
him? trying to fit into my mother’s have been together for more than
3. How does Nawaz respond to these space’. How does this remark forty years. Why do you think this
criticisms? contrast with Habiba and Mehnaz’ marriage seems to be so enduring
4. How can we tell that the row situation with their families? and happy?
seems to have blown over? 5. How are the physical circum-
5. Can you imagine being in a stances, including space and ame- Ending
master/servant relationship? What nities in their houses, different for
would be the difficulties on each each of the three sets of families? Mehnaz tells us that she is pregnant
side? In what ways does this matter? and frames this story by saying ‘we
came together in that house. Now
(8) Troubles for young lovers (10) The rhythms of marriage, there’s a film about the story in that
children and changes house’. Like many people, the record-
1. What are Mehnaz and Shahzad ing of this story is important to her
shopping for in Lahore? 1. Why does Nawaz want his old job sense of herself and her place in the
2. What does this trip suggest about back, as cook for the Saeeds? world. The film ends with Jocelyn’s
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Mehnaz’ mother’s changing atti- 2. What reason does Nawaz give for daughter Maryam singing one of her
tude? his friendship with Shahzad? mother’s poems, Moon of Memory.
3. Which members of Mehnaz’ family 3. What is the pre-nuptial agreement
are still opposed to her marriage Mehnaz has got from Shahzad? Did you find this ending satisfactory or
and threatening violence? 4. Why do you think this was impor- did you want to know more?
4. Nawaz is worried about his wife tant for her?
Student
Activity 4
Student Activity 4
Style and content – deconstructing a film text > The way in which a film is put
together is important in shaping viewers’ responses to the themes and issues. In
Punjabi Love Story the filmmaker moves between the three sets of relationships,
aspects of each mirroring and contrasting with the others. They are all set within the
world of the Saeed household and the immediate world outside, on the outskirts of
Jaranwala and in Lahore.
1. Sometimes the people in this ing of people’s lives in this film? ent in the relationships?
film seem to be like characters 3. As the film develops, we learn 4. What part does caste and class
in a soap opera, playing out their more about Jocelyn and Saeed’s play in people’s lives in this film?
own dramas. How far might this life together in Pakistan, intercut 5. Does the filmmaker make either
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be a consequence of the slightly with the developing dramas in the explicit or implicit judgements
artificial process of filming daily life lives of two of their employees, about either the society and/or the
and love and people’s awareness Nawaz and Mehnaz. Does this individuals in this film? Consider
of being recorded? technique of moving between the what she chooses to film and what
2. How important is place, context three sets of families help us to remains private.
and background to an understand- understand the differences appar-
Student
Activity 5
Student Activity 5
Extension Activities
1. Imagine you return to Pakistan to When I was growing up nobody I’d say ‘Well, the holy prophet [?] mar-
see what has happened in these believed a woman could be Prime ried a working woman and if he could
peoples’ lives five years on. Write Minister, nobody even asked the marry, the messenger of God could
the next episode in the story of question that, Can a woman be Prime marry a working woman isn’t that an
one or more of these couples. Minister? Except for my father who example for us, and people would
2. Research the practice of ‘arranged was always telling me that Nehru, the just sort of roll up their eyes and say
marriages’. Are they any more or Indian leader, his daughter became ‘Be realistic - where does it happen?’
less likely to endure, be happy Prime Minister, my daughter’s going but I’ve always have this deep faith
or end in divorce than marriages to become Prime Minister too. I’d say in me that I would win. And I always
where individuals choose their ‘No papa, I’m not going into politics’ tell people that if you want to succeed
partner more freely? and he’d say ‘Yes you are’ and nobody remember two things: reach for the
3. ‘A bit of sweet, a bit of sour. There’s else ever believed that a woman could stars and be persistent. And I believe
some arguments in every home.’ ever become Prime Minister. When it. That’s my prescription for life, that
(Shahzad). Does the secret to my father was killed that’s what peo- one must reach for the star and that
a happy marriage lie in working ple said. Particularly in the military. one must never be dismayed by a
through arguments, in compromise? There’s no way that a male dominated setback but being a woman was more
4. Choosing a partner with whom to society like Pakistan, entrenched in of a threat to my society than I had
live is one of the most important it’s traditions, is ever going to vote for ever imagined. I’d done politics with
choices many people make all over a woman and that too a young one. people who were liberal, who were
the world. How do people learn I’d have people telling me ‘Why don’t enlightened in the Pakistan People’s
how to make these choices and you get married and settle down’, I’d Party. However, when I became Prime
what part does luck play in getting have relatives tell me that, I’d have Minister I entered a whole new world.
them right? friends tell me that ‘Why don’t you I found from the Mosques sermons
5. What opportunities do Mehnaz and get married and settle down, what is that were given that Pakistan has been
Nawaz have for expanding their all this politics?’, ‘When Zia goes you thrown out of the pail of Islam because
educational opportunities? can’t come because of (a) the military a woman has been elected and every
6. In the three ‘marriages’ shown in won’t accept you, (b) you are too Muslim is pained and has to rise and
this film, is the male the dominant young, people don’t - I was, anyway, revolt before Pakistan can come back
partner who makes the choices? under thirty - you were too young and into the Islamic fold. I had had my
Look carefully at how these people you’re a woman so why don’t you let opponents in the election saying that
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relate to one another. the men do it, why do you want to go anybody who voted for me would
7. Many women in Pakistan do not to jail, why do you want to suffer. So have their marriage dissolved. So it
enjoy the same rights that women all the time I was told that the decks was just an amazing phenomenon to
in other countries have. Read the are stacked and that a woman can’t come against a wall of hate. A wall
following extract about women in - it’s never happened in the Muslim of hate, that was built just on the fact
Pakistan. world, where has it happened? And that I was a woman and seen want-
10ing a man’s job and then I became Men, Women, and the Division of people consider a woman – and her
Prime Minister, the Chief of the Military Space family – to be shameless if no restric-
received me without a hat and people tions are placed on her mobility.
said that’s because we can’t salute a Gender relations in Pakistan rest on two
woman Prime Minister. It was just ... basic perceptions: that women are sub- Source: http://www.islamfortoday.
I had been brought up by father who ordinate to men, and that a man’s honor com/pakistanwomen.htm
believed and taught me to have faith resides in the actions of the women of
in myself. Who taught that men and his family. Thus, as in other orthodox • To what extent are some of these
women were equal. Who, through Muslim societies, women are responsi- constraints on women apparent in
my religious education, taught me ble for maintaining the family honor. To the film?
that my religion proclaimed equality of ensure that they do not dishonor their
men and women and I did my poli- families, society limits women’s mobility, References
tics amongst a group of enlightened places restrictions on their behavior and
people who believed the same but activities, and permits them only limited Books
when I began to run for Prime Minister, contact with the opposite sex. Space is
and I actually became Prime Minster, allocated to and used differently by men Bapsi Sidhwa: This young Pakistani
I came across a total wall of hate and and women. For their protection and woman has published four novels
since then I’ve come to the conclusion respectability, women have tradition- in the 1990s, all written in Eng-
that my most important identity is as a ally been expected to live under the lish. They are The Pakistani Bride,
woman because at the end of it, if you constraints of purdah (purdah is Persian Cracking India (adapted for screen
take away the politics and the political for curtain), most obvious in veiling. By as Water), Croweaters and The
affiliations and everyone takes away separating women from the activities of American Brat.
the family affiliations, at the basic point men, both physically and symbolically,
one becomes a woman. Not just a purdah creates differentiated male and Films
person but a different type of person, female spheres. Most women spend
the male person and the female per- the major part of their lives physically Few films made in Pakistan about the
son, and that’s how I see my identity within their homes and courtyards and lives of ordinary Pakistanis have
now - as a woman. go out only for serious and approved been shown in the West. In 2006 a
reasons. Outside the home, social life government ban on showing films
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Benazir Bhutto in 1998, after she had generally revolves around the activities from neighbouring India in Paki-
been twice deposed from the prime of men. In most parts of the country, stan was lifted. India has a thriving
ministership of Pakistan. except perhaps in Islamabad, Karachi, film industry.
and wealthier parts of a few other cities, Water, the third film in a trilogy by
11Deepa Mehta, is now able to be http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ Human Rights Watch site detailing
seen in Pakistan. The second film WWWVL-AsianStudies.html treatment of women in Pakistan
in this trilogy, Earth, is a love story (Accessed 6 April 2006) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/
encompassing conflicting religions Extensive Australian-based directory engASA330181999
and politics between India and of websites related to Asia. (Accessed 5 April 2006)
Pakistan. Water is available for http://www.pakpositive. Amnesty International Report on the
general release. It is about the plight com/2006/01/11/karachi lives of women in Pakistan
of widows in India in the 1930s, who -matchmakers-reveal-changing http://www.islamfortoday.com/
often lived in poverty and, without a -marriage-trends/ pakistanwomen.htm
husband, had nowhere to live and (Accessed 7 April 2006) (Accessed 5 April 2006)
were dependent on charity. This site features positive stories An account of the changing status
about life in Pakistan, and has some of women in Pakistan.
Useful websites interesting stories about women and
marriage. Marguerite O’Hara is a freelance writer
http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/ http://www.infopak.gov.pk/ from Melbourne
voices/citizen.htm (Accessed 7 April 2006)
(Accessed 5 April 2006) Official government site including Punjabi Love Story is distributed by
Information and activities for teach- information about the geography, Ronin Films in Australia and New Zea-
ers and students about citizenship economy, government, culture and land.
in Pakistan news of Pakistan. PO Box 1005, Civic Square, ACT 2608
http://www.askasia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan Tel (02) 6248 0851 Fax (02) 6249 1640
(Accessed 5 April 2006) (Accessed 5 April 2006)
Curriculum resources on Asia. Information about Pakistan’s history,
http://www.asiasource.org/ geography, culture and political life.
(Accessed 6 April 2006) http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/
Comprehensive listing of online cur- pakistan/
rent affairs articles related to Asia. (Accessed 5 April 2006) Prodcution Company Zara Films
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