Rawalpindi:
With the divorce rates that rise in Rawalpindi, the number of separate children who find their parents and separate relatives has increased abruptly, creating pressure on the children’s meeting center in the judicial complex.
Where once those meetings occurred two or three times a week, they are now held daily. Each family judge “meeting days” for parents dedicated to divorce procedures.
The family meeting center in charge said that between 38 and 70 families now use the facilities every day. Some meet once a month, another twice, with sessions that last 40 minutes one hour. Up to 10 families can meet at the same time.
However, the increase in demand has exposed serious deficiencies. The waiting area out of the hall lacks adequate facilities, which offer only cement banks that heat upset in summer and cold in winter. The tin and fiber roof worsens heat. Visitors face additional difficulties since there is no drinking water available, so they are forced to use nearby court coolers, which often dry at noon, despite the meetings that continue from 9 am to 4 pm
Space restrictions mean that grandparents and other relatives often turn the turns inside the hall, with only 10 to 15 minutes each.
The registration also raises problems, since influential visitors supposedly make their names on the list of others. Despite these difficulties, parents and relatives bring gifts, such as toys, bicycles, clothing, juices and fast food, to double children’s happiness. Many children expressed joy when receiving sweets and spending time with their parents.
However, behind the smiles, Herven frustration over low heat. Divorced and relatives discontent voice over the lack of facilities. A visitor, Fordous Begum, urged the authorities to build a spacious, shaded and well ventilated waiting room where women could sit with privacy, along with reliable drinking water and a larger meetings center to accommodate more families at the same time.
Some parents reflected on their regrets. A father, Faisal Khurshid, admitted: “Meeting my children is very difficult. We divorced ourselves on minor disputes. I even married again but I have not yet found peace. I tell everyone that they go to court for divorce 1 are patients. They do not end up regretting like us.”
