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OKARA: Parents of a minor girl and boy were booked on Monday along with seven others who allegedly arranged their nikah at 53/2L village around a month ago. As per the first information report (FIR), Sadar police received information that ...

HARIPUR: A Christian couple here on Wednesday alleged the abduction, forced conversion and marriage of their ‘underage’ daughter. They also accused a local PTI leader and police of supporting the accused. The girl’s mother, Noreen Maseeh, of Mubin Banda area ...

For the last around a decade successive provincial governments and civil society members have been grappling with the question as to what should be the marriageable age for a female in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. So far, the provincial government has failed ...

ISLAMABAD: The Early Child Marriage Restraint Act prepared by Social Welfare Department to overcome the menace of child marriages has been submitted to the Balochistan Cabinet for approval. Balochistan is on the top of maternal mortality rate due to weak ...

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Nighat Yasmin Orakzai on Monday submitted a bill on child marriages in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, seeking ban on marriages of children under 18 years of age and award of up to three years of ...