Pakistan’s Senate chose to mark the United Nations International Day of the Girl Child this week in an unusual way: by rejecting a bill that would have raised the minimum age for girls to marry ...

Pakistan has already achieved some successes in fighting early marriage: the southeast province of Sindh proscribed child marriages in 2014, levying prison terms of up to three years, along with a ...

Pakistan is a signatory to international accords that prohibit child marriage, Saigol added. The country needed to stop adopting laws to save face abroad while flouting the norms of decency at home.

In a significant development, a court in Pakistan refused to hand custody of a Catholic girl to a Muslim who abducted and forcibly converted/married her, noting that as a minor she could not go with ...

Pakistan ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1990, pledging commitment to protect the rights of children, as well as the elimination of child marriage.

LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) When police raided a marriage ceremony in Karachi on Wednesday (May 14) and found a 46-year-old groom about to marry his 14-year-old bride, the wedding didn’t come as a ...

Hats off to Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Sehar Kamran who has tirelessly campaigned for the approval of her proposed legislative tool against underage marriages –– the Child Marriages ...

As monsoon rains were about to break over Pakistan, 14-year-old Shamila and her 13-year-old sister Amina were married off in exchange for money, a ...

Child marriages often lead to girls facing early motherhood and lifelong reproductive health issues. They are also left with no education and employment prospects, making them vulnerable and ...

Pakistan Penal code’s section number 498B strictly prohibits a child Marriage and announces this act as illegal throughout the country. There are sanctions of seven years imprisonment and Rs ...

How to curb child marriages in Pakistan. Published July 2, 2009 . 0 ...

Child marriages are common in parts of Pakistan, which has the sixth-highest number of girls married before the age of 18 in the world, according to government data published in December.