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PESHAWAR: Speakers at a function here on Tuesday highlighted importance of women in leadership positions and said female members of population had been playing important roles in different sectors and thus, contributing to the country’s development. The event was jointly ...

Civil Society has demand resignation of MNA Maulana Salahuddin Ayubi for getting married to a 14-year-old girl in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Members of the Pakhtunkhwa Civil Society Network (PCSN) expressed disappointment over the illegal marriage of MNA Maulana Salahuddin Ayubi with a ...

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 ...

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 ...