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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 ...

ISLAMABAD – A Balochistan based human rights activist Rehmatullah Baloch while criticising the tribal tradition, said that orthodox usage of early age marriages at the age of 7 to 8 years set in the province is against the fundamental human ...

THARPARKAR: United Nations (UN) representatives have joined the call to end child marriage in Pakistan. Tharparkar was the first stop of UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. At an event organised under the umbrella of the 16 ...

SHIKARPUR – Child marriage tradition has posed a great threat to the children before attaining to the age of adult. These views were expressed by the experts during a seminar titled early child marriages held at Shikarpur Press Club on ...