With nikahkhwans on board, 30 villages in Sindh fight child marriage
July 10, 2015
By Zofeen T Ebrahim KARACHI: A small revolution is brewing in some 30 villages in Dadu district’s Johi taluka in Sindh. A group of people,
Child Marriage
Preventing child marriages
July 2, 2015
There seems to be very slow progress in our society when it comes to weeding out the practice of child marriage in an effective manner.
Call to make CNIC compulsory for marriage
June 4, 2015
By FAIZA ILYAS KARACHI: Production of the computerised national identity card (CNIC) and birth registration certificate at the time of marriage be made mandatory to
Training workshop: Helping police enforce laws protecting rights of children
May 12, 2015
LAHORE: It took Pakistan decades to frame laws on universal access to education and to take a strict stance on child marriages, Democratic Commission for
‘Law against under-age marriage not being implemented’
April 22, 2015
LARKANA: Speakers at a consultative meeting of lawyers held under the umbrella of Pirbhat Women Development Society, Oxfam and Aahang, highlighted how despite the legislation
Underage marriage bid foiled
April 13, 2015
LAHORE: Police foiled an attempt to send off (rukhsati) a six-year-old girl with her 22-year-old groom in Dubai Town near Thokar Niaz baig here on
‘Children shouldn’t be married until they attain mental maturity’
April 4, 2015
By: Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: A senior official with the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has said that although CII recommends 16 as the appropriate age
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