When Jan Bano's daughter, Tahira, was married off at the age of 12 to a middle-aged man, Jan had no idea that in a couple of years she would be grieving at her daughter's grave.
According to Jan, her daughter's husband and in-laws attacked her with acid and left her to die.
But Tahira's story isn't the first of its kind, neither it is unique to the Swat Valley, where violence, discrimination and abuse are normal towards women.
But what is unique is that women in northwestern Pakistan are fighting back to take control of their rights by establishing Pakistan's first female Jirga, a traditional assembly of local elders.
Traditionally, the Jirga is a male-dominated tribal assembly, a parallel justice system that takes decisions on civil and criminal cases.
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"Our society is a male-dominated society and our male treat our women like a slave and they don't even give them their rights, and they consider them like their property," the founder of the all-female Jirga, Tabassum Adnan, said.
Ms Adnan acknowledged the risks of establishing such an assembly but said despite that she had to fight.
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