Couple discovers they are siblings after 24 years

A Pakistani couple united in an arranged marriage over 24 years ago recently learnt that they were in fact of the same parents, SMACK reports. The siblings, who were separated as children after the tragic death of their parents, were later adopted by different families until they later married each other.

"Everybody in town knew we were brother and sister but no one had the courage to tell us until now," said the sister turned wife, Aisha, in tears.

Last year, a Pakistani Federal Shariat Court judge made international headlines after refusing to allow a woman to divorce her brother from an arranged marriage stating that being siblings "was not enough of a justification" to obtain court approval for divorce under Sharia law.