<p>Just look up advertisements in English newspapers or websites or the walls of shops on busy street corners in cities like Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, offering women a chance to shroud their past with a recreated hymen — and you’ll know.<br /><br />For instance, the website www.hopepk.com. offers help for a number of sexual diseases, and vaginoplasty and hymen repair are at the top. Post an online inquiry or call up 0092-3234195732 — a cell phone number with Pakistani ISD code and 323 refers to Warid Telecom phone service.<br /><br />The address of the hospital where the operation will be performed is divulged only when the customer is given a date. The website says it has two doctors — Sarfaraz Ahmed, a graduate of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, and Yasmin Sarfaraz, a gynaecologist and a member of Royal College Ob/Gyn London, who performs hymenoplasty. “The result is an immediate decrease in the size of vaginal muscles, resulting in more friction during intercourse,” claims the website.<br /><br />Classified as cosmetic surgery, hymenoplasty was exported from Britain to Pakistan, where many women have been divorced instantly for not conforming to the notion of the blushing, untouched spouse.<br /><br />Re-virgination, as the process is also known, is performed at $500, or Pakistani Rs 40,000, and is usually resorted to by upper class women in cities.<br />Syed Rizwanul Haq says he runs www.noorclinic.com that has loads of content on sex and related problems available in Hindi and Urdu. Among other things, it offers e-books on sex.<br /><br />Then there is the Nasim Fertility Clinic in the middle-class locality of Johar Town in Lahore. <br />Its owner Farooq Nasim says: “We charge only Rs 40,000; abroad, the operation costs $2,000 or more.”<br /><br />It is not necessary even to register names. And such benevolence helps pull in customers. Nasim claims to have restored 300 hymens in the last two years.<br />Agencies</p>
<p>Just look up advertisements in English newspapers or websites or the walls of shops on busy street corners in cities like Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, offering women a chance to shroud their past with a recreated hymen — and you’ll know.<br /><br />For instance, the website www.hopepk.com. offers help for a number of sexual diseases, and vaginoplasty and hymen repair are at the top. Post an online inquiry or call up 0092-3234195732 — a cell phone number with Pakistani ISD code and 323 refers to Warid Telecom phone service.<br /><br />The address of the hospital where the operation will be performed is divulged only when the customer is given a date. The website says it has two doctors — Sarfaraz Ahmed, a graduate of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, and Yasmin Sarfaraz, a gynaecologist and a member of Royal College Ob/Gyn London, who performs hymenoplasty. “The result is an immediate decrease in the size of vaginal muscles, resulting in more friction during intercourse,” claims the website.<br /><br />Classified as cosmetic surgery, hymenoplasty was exported from Britain to Pakistan, where many women have been divorced instantly for not conforming to the notion of the blushing, untouched spouse.<br /><br />Re-virgination, as the process is also known, is performed at $500, or Pakistani Rs 40,000, and is usually resorted to by upper class women in cities.<br />Syed Rizwanul Haq says he runs www.noorclinic.com that has loads of content on sex and related problems available in Hindi and Urdu. Among other things, it offers e-books on sex.<br /><br />Then there is the Nasim Fertility Clinic in the middle-class locality of Johar Town in Lahore. <br />Its owner Farooq Nasim says: “We charge only Rs 40,000; abroad, the operation costs $2,000 or more.”<br /><br />It is not necessary even to register names. And such benevolence helps pull in customers. Nasim claims to have restored 300 hymens in the last two years.<br />Agencies</p>