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"Pakistan and Bangladesh have a tactical relationship at the moment. Together, they want to represent a pushback against the dominance of India," says Ayesha Siddiqa, a Pakistani academic who is a senior fellow at King's College in London.

Ayesha, who at 29 is the oldest of the three sisters, also married her first cousin in 2017.

Even Ayesha, the oldest sister who is in a cousin marriage, said she doesn't imagine either of her two children will marry their cousins.

Ayesha, the sister who is in a cousin marriage, is reflective and thoughtful about her own near decade-long relationship.

"People were going in every direction," one eyewitness Ayesha Mishra told the BBC.