Tasneem Peerzada is the equally talented sister of the multifaceted and talented Peerzada brothers (Salman, Usman, Imran, Faizan and Sadaan), managing public relations and media coordination, writing for the RP theatre, organizing different RP events… and picking up the scattered threads of her life slowly but surely.

For those who see her as a committed professional, managing affairs so smoothly, it is hard to imagine how much she has suffered in the turbulent journey of her married life.

And now after five years of the break up of a relationship that lasted long years of her life, she has mustered up the courage to look life into the eyes and reinstate herself as an individual.

Now she is able and willing to talk about the trauma that truly jolted her and everything she believed in.

Beginning her career as an educationist, Tasneem soon switched over to journalism and got associated with the Jang Group of Publications. She carved out a niche for herself in a very short time as a promising journalist and was doing great until she met her former husband (a famous architect) who wooed her away from everything, and Tasneem went along happily.

Coming from a totally different background, Tasneem did her best to adapt herself to the new surroundings and fit into the role of a devoted housewife.

“My colleagues and friends were appalled at my leaving everything just to please my husband. But I wanted to be a perfect wife and a mother too.”
Unfortunately neither of these wishes was materialized; Tasneem did not have a child, so she canalized all her emotions and love towards her home and her husband. Only one evening she found out, to her utter distress and horror, that she could claim to own neither
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“The house that I had transformed into my home so lovingly and feelingly was just an abode, the instant I found out that the man who has been with me day in and day out for the last fifteen years had betrayed me… And betrayed me for a married woman and a mother of three…”
Her book of poetry ‘Lamhaat ka Dukh’ says it all. “Yes, pouring my heart out through my writing helped. I call ‘Lamhaat ka Dukh’ my catharsis in every aspect of the word.”

Greatly helped by her mother, (whom she feels very close to), her brothers, her sister (Kauser) and all her nephews and nieces, Tasneem slowly started to return back to life.

Tasneem has been through a lot, and acknowledges that she has tried to pick up all the lessons that life sent her way. “Not every ordinary woman goes through this much. So may be I am a shade lucky also in the sense that I have seen and experienced, and most importantly, learned a whole lot more than the ordinary woman. I intend to steer the ship of my life with my very own hands, with my very own will from now onwards. I do hope and pray to get going in the right direction…”

And with a subtle wetness in her eyes and a quivering smile on her lips, but with her head held high and a purposeful determination in her stride, Tasneem Peerzada walks ahead… anew.