Spurned Bride Returns to Pakistan
Mar 21st 2011 – 10:52AM
CBC News
A young bride from Pakistan who was rejected by her husband at Toronto's Pearson airport is expected to arrive back home Monday morning.
Aisha Noor, 23, arrived in Toronto two weeks ago only to be told her husband had cancelled her sponsorship for residency.
Owais Qurni told CBC News he had informed Noor he intended to divorce her and that she should stay in Pakistan.
Noor appealed to immigration officials to stay in Canada, but was scheduled to leave on a Sunday night flight to Pakistan almost as soon as she arrived.
The pair - wed in an arranged marriage in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2009 - did not meet while Noor was in Toronto.
"I have been crying since I came to Canada," Noor told CBC News last week.
She said she was speaking out to highlight the issue of so-called abandoned brides.
In an email to CBC News, Qurni, 22, said the marriage was never consummated and had only been held to start the immigration process. Noor's visa was issued in January, but Qurni had second thoughts, he wrote. Qurni said he told Noor before she arrived March 4 that the marriage would be a failure because there was no chemistry between them and that they didn't share any interests.
Qurni says he had no idea Noor was flying to Canada. Noor claims that's not what happened. She says he told her he loved her and couldn't wait for her to arrive.
"His emails, his video chat, I still remember," she said. "That was all fake."
Noor also accuses Qurni of withdrawing her immigration sponsorship because her family refused to pay thousands of dollars. Qurni said those allegations are "completely false." Filed under: Canada
Tagged: abandoned bride, aisha noor, dowry, immigration, owais qurni, pakistan, pashtun, pearson airport, toronto
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