(BBC) Nyla Khan says she was taken from Scotland at the age of 17 and forced to marry her cousin in Pakistan.
“I knew from a very young age that I was promised to my cousin and I always felt very uncomfortable about that,” she tells BBC Scotland’s The Nine. She says she thought it was “morally wrong.”
Nyla, who is now 30, had a “really strict upbringing” in a Mirpuri Muslim family.
“My parents were very paranoid about me becoming Western,” she says. “They think they are protecting you.”
Nyla says she wanted to “have a voice,” express herself, dress differently and get “more from life” but extended family members complained she was “out of control.”
