Renowned folk singer Sanam Marvi has filed for khula (woman’s right to divorce) from husband Hamid Ali.
According to a report in Geo News, Marvi filed for khula in a family court of Lahore. In her petition, Marvi said that she married Hamid Ali in 2009, but after a while, her husband’s attitude towards her changed and he started becoming abusive.
“Hamid started abusing and torturing me in front of the children. I tolerated abuse from my husband for the sake of my kids,” the singer told the court.
Marvi requested the court to grant her khula as she can no longer live with her husband.
Marvi tied the knot with Ali in 2009 after her former husband Aftab Ahmed was killed in Karachi.
In an earlier interview, Sanam had shared that her stepfather married her at the age of eighteen because of their poverty-stricken circumstances. But a short while after her wedding, Marvi’s husband was murdered in a targeted attack in Karachi. She was pregnant with their first child.
The same year she married Hamid, who is also her cousin. Sharing details about their marriage, Marvi had said, “He said, ‘I always liked her. But you married her off too young.’ Then my mother suggested that he visit and meet me in person as well. There were sparks. He started liking me more and then phone calls upon phone calls from the next day. And that’s how our story started — our love story.”
Sanam and Hamid have three children together.
The 33-year old singer was recently also part of Coke Studio Season 12 and her song Hairaan Hua was a hit.
