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PESHAWAR: The civil society organisations and human right activists have urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to table and pass the pending legislation of Child Marriage Restraint Amendment Bill, 2018 and raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 without any ...

CHILD marriages are a regressive practice that deeply harms the girl child — typically made the victim of such a tradition. It is a fundamental human rights violation, and yet continues to be practised in many parts of the world. ...

LAHORE: In a session on ‘Muslim Women, Laws and Sexualities’, researcher Afia Zia and Fauzia Viqar spoke about the family laws and Muslim women with respect to socio-political order, secularism and feminism. Viqar spoke about the challenges and obstacles that ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN: The police thwarted a child marriage attempt and arrested four persons including the child bride and groom in Basti Golay Di Goth, situated in UC Kot Sanjar Khan near Kot Sabzal in Tehsil Sadiqabad, some 53km from ...

ISLAMABAD: Despite insistence by some religious political parties’ MPs to set marriage age at 12 to 13 years instead of 18, Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was moved in the Senate and referred to concerned committee of the House ...