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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 ...

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 ...

QUETTA: A senior leader of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), Sana Durrani, has urged the provincial government to move the Prevent Child Marriages bill in the provincial assembly for legislation as soon as possible. Speaking at a joint press conference, ...

Barriers to education, the perception of women and girls as property rather than rights bearers, existing norms regarding financial and physical security, and the stigma surrounding female sexuality and reproductive rights have been highlighted as some of several factors that ...