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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 ...

DADU: Taking notice of a 12-year-old girl’s marriage with a 50-year-old man on a recent ruling of a jirga (tribal court), the district and sessions judge of Dadu got an FIR registered against all those involved in the matter. Dadu ...

The Sindh Child Marriage Restraining Act 2013 has been challenged in the Sindh High Court as “against the injunction of Islam and the constitution”, which cannot be applied to the Muslims. Petitioner Ali Azhar submitted that he married Arzoo Fatima ...