Need to rid child marriage law of ambiguities stressed
By: Shazia Hasan KARACHI: Underlining the need to rid the recently enacted provincial law on child marriage of defects and ambiguities, experts named five bright...
Man succeeds in tying knot with underage girl
TOBA TEK SINGH: A 35-year-old man, whose attempt to marry an underage girl was foiled by some media persons in Kamalia on Saturday, managed to...
Police foil child marriage bid; ‘groom’ flees
By: Malik Tehseen Raza MUZAFFARGARH: The Rohillanwali police arrested a man attempting to marry a 12-year-old girl in Jarh Ratheib near Rohillanwali on Sunday, 45km...
Police recover girls, arrest jirga members
SHANGLA: A jirga forced two minor girls into marriage under the tribal custom of Swara in the Chakesar area of Shangla district of Khyber-Pakhtunkha but...
CII endorses underage marriage
ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism from various quarters, including some of its own members, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), on Wednesday endorsed its earlier ruling that...