When British-Kashmiri Shagufta Rashid migrated to the UK from Pakistan in 1990, she was already a married woman with a stable home life. Her husband was also her cousin, but in her culture, especially at the time, it was considered normal.
The couple had five children and things were going well.
“All of my kids were very intelligent and beautiful,” she told DW. The first sign of trouble, however, came with one of her daughters complaining of poor eyesight.
