ISLAMABAD: Participants of a seminar on child marriages on Wednesday urged the government to tackle this issue on priority basis as “it is more dangerous than terrorism and is related to the future of Pakistan”. Child marriages create multiple problems ...
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Quetta: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday ordered police to arrest within 10 days and present in court a 70-year-old man who has been accused of attempting to forcibly marry a minor girl in Balochistan’s Qila ...
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LARKANA/KARACHI: Rukhsana was 16 years old when she was married off to a 45-year-old widower. The wedding ceremony was held in a little village in Larkana district in 2015, a year after the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2013 was ...
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The issue of child marriage continues to haunt Pakistan, with any progress having been extremely slow. Each step forward seems to be followed by two steps back. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) made its controversial views known last year ...
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Islamabad :The Senate’s Committee on Interior and Narcotics on Monday approved The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2017. The Bill was opposed by Senator Chaudhry Tanvir Khan and Muhammad Javed Abbasi of the PML-N, however, was supported by the majority ...
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