The Law Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is working on preparing draft law regarding child marriage. The draft law would be presented in the provincial assembly as official bill soon. This was stated during an awareness raising session, regarding child marriages ...
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Umerkot: Speakers at a seminar said in unison that early marriage was a crime and entire society would have to reject it and stand by police’s efforts to curb it. In South Asia every fifth child was the victim of ...
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Dera Ghazi Khan: Police arrested four men, including a nikah khawan, for solemnising the nikah of an 11-year-old girl who was declared vani by a panchayat on Tuesday. A case has also been registered against 15 men for facilitating the ...
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Her mind often flashes back to the days when she had to silently endure beatings, hunger and being locked up. She confines herself in a room to weep her heart out when the vivid memories of a hellish year disturb ...
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KARACHI: “Increasing crimes of rape and underage marriage are glaring evidence of the failure of our social and criminal justice systems,” said Advocate Zia Ahmed Awan of the Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid on Saturday. “Nothing has changed ...
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