In concluding the Nuqah contract, the officiator asks the bride?s father, ?Hal btaqbala/b nuqaha ibnatika?, ?Do you consent to the f***ing of your daughter??, replying in the affirmative, and accepting the groom?s payment and the b.../b signifies a land and people there simply to be exploited, whether one is bustard-hunting in Pakistan or India or watching the monsoon from a bhotel/b on the Mumbai waterfront for rain-watching pleasure, or choosing a young girl, b.../b
