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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 ...

PESHAWAR: Civil society members in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have demanded the federal government urgently add an amendment to the Constitution, abolishing the Council for Islamic Ideology (CII) altogether. Or, they suggested, remove the CII’s advisory team, and make it a purely ceremonial ...

What a surprise! Apparently, when it comes right down to it, the much-maligned Pakistani state actually faces very little difficulty in establishing its writ. The crackdown on the Jaish-e-Mohammad’s (JeM) leadership and seminaries in the wake of the Pathankot attack ...

By: Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: The question of minimum marriageable age for girls reverberated in the National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs, where an amendment proposing that the minimum limit be raised to 18 years was declared ‘un-Islamic’ by committee ...