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For the last around a decade successive provincial governments and civil society members have been grappling with the question as to what should be the marriageable age for a female in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. So far, the provincial government has failed ...

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Nighat Yasmin Orakzai on Monday submitted a bill on child marriages in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, seeking ban on marriages of children under 18 years of age and award of up to three years of ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD – A Balochistan based human rights activist Rehmatullah Baloch while criticising the tribal tradition, said that orthodox usage of early age marriages at the age of 7 to 8 years set in the province is against the fundamental human ...