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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 ...

KARACHI: Are we letting down the country’s children who are a victim of child marriage? This sobering thought was on the minds of all present at a local hotel on Tuesday where a briefing paper titled ‘Ending impunity for child ...

PESHAWAR: The civil society organisations Tuesday asked the government to take steps for putting an end to child marriages as the country is signatory to several declaration on protecting child rights and ending child marriages. Blue Veins, a non-governmental organization, ...

By Mudassir Raja RAWALPINDI: A magistrate court here on Tuesday sent four men arrested in connection with child marriage and vani to Adiala Jail on judicial remand for 14 days. Magistrate Wasim Sajjad Arain directed Pirwadhai police to send eight ...