QUETTA: Collective efforts are needed at government, social and student levels to create awareness about the problems caused by child marriages and to make effective legislation to stop the practice that badly affects health of underage girls. People from different ...
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DADU: A groom, his father and Nikah registrar were arrested in a raid on a marriage ceremony near Wahi Pandhi town of Dadu district on Friday. Police had received information that an underage girl was being wedded at a house ...
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ISLAMABAD: Child marriages are a common occurrence in Pakistan with around 18 percent of girls married before they turn 18. This was highlighted by a speaker during an event organised in connection with International Women’s Day. Around 11,000 mothers in ...
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday made an important announcement regarding the legal age for marriage and declared that marrying off 16-year-old would be illegal from now on. The announcement came during the hearing of a case related ...
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ISLAMABAD: The federal government may consider amending the law pertaining to the minimum marriage age of girls in the light of the recent Islamabad High Court judgment. Justice Aamir Farooq of the Islamabad High Court while giving an order in ...
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