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Islamabad: The National Assembly Women Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) and UN Women Pakistan have decided to work together to raise awareness for legislative reforms to end child marriage and advance women empowerment and gender equality. These are also central to Pakistan’s ...

THE new debate over the minimum marriage age for girls has revealed a massive regression in our society’s social thinking and the implications are truly alarming. Ninety years ago, a Hindu member of the Central Assembly of India moved a ...

ISLAMABAD: The UN Women and Women Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has signed an MoU to raise awareness and policy advocacy for legislation to end child marriages and women trafficking in the province, including the new districts of former ...

ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) said on Friday any legislation to ban child marriage would lead to complications, suggesting to the government to instead launch an awareness campaign to discourage the trend of early marriages. The CII gave its ...

ISLAMABAD: A day after the passage of a bill seeking to set minimum age for marriage at 18 in the Senate, a similar legislation was introduced in the National Assembly on Tuesday, but only after an intense discussion which exposed cracks ...