[Samina26]

My nikah was done according to my parents at the age of 13 years verbally in Pakistan. Now I am a female of 23 yrs. At the age of 17 I signed the nikah papers without any wali present. I although never was made to do the rukhsati and the marriage was never consummated . As it was an engagement with a minor nikah as they as as the I do was also by done sOme elders and not me. To cut short now I want to finish it. I don't want to go and marry that guy . He lives in Pakistan and I live in the middle east. I want to know the legal procedure to finish it all. Is my presence needed for it? And how tO do it easily? In the papers it's written he gave me gold which he never did. He wanted to go somewhere over seas due to which he made those papers. Now that guy says he would kill me and not leave me so it's scary to go to pakistan. What should I do?

[AK lawyer]

"In November 2008, the Council of Islamic Ideology made a number of recommendations to reform the procedure for a woman's request for divorce (Khula). The recommendations were severely criticized in the traditionalist quarters.[citation needed] The number of divorces amongst Muslims of Indian sub-continent is rarer than amongst Arab cultures, partly due to ignorance about Islamic ordinances concerning it, and also stigmatization of talaq/khula as a result of over 1000 years influence from the majority Hindu culture surrounding them, for in Hinduism there is no concept of divorce, marriage is sacrament and not a contract, hence divorce was not recognized."

Khula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But I see no reason to seek a divorce in Pakistan.

You say you live in the Mid-east. You would have to determine what the divorce law is, in the particular country you are in.