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 young women ‘Kirans’, or rays, to symbolise hope for a better future of girls in ...
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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 tie the knot with the eight-year-old girl at some undisclosed location the very next day ...
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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 from the city. Munir Ahmad, 35, was being married to 12-year-old Aasia. SHO Munir Chandia ...
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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 the police thwarted the trade-off and detained 19 who had allegedly adjudicated the jirga. According ...
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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 girls as young as nine years old were eligible to be married, “if the signs ...
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