Tag: child marriage

TANDLIANWALA: A seven-year-old child was bartered into marriage to a man 21 years her senior here on Sunday. According to the details, the child, Pathani, was...

KARACHI: As the debate over legislation to ban child marriage in Pakistan continues, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has called for adopting legislation...

ISLAMABAD: Member National Assembly (MNA), Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani on Tuesday tabled two bills and one resolution in the Parliament against forced conversions, child marriages...

Anusha Meghwar, a 16-year-old girl belonging to the Meghwal tribe in Salam Kot area in Tharparkar, was "forcibly married" after her "conversion" to Islam,...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has banned the marriage of minors following a ruling by the Kingdom’s Shoura Council, according to a statement issued by the...

The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2018 was presented in the Senate on Tuesday. The bill was moved by Opposition Leader Senator Sherry Rehman. The...

Respect Ruvimbo Topodzi was 15 and walking home from school in her native Zimbabwe when a 22-year-old man asked her out. She turned him...

MARDAN: A 14-year-old girl who was married off to a 40-year-old man as 'Sawara' on the orders of a jirga in Mardan’s Babozai area...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia should ban child marriage immediately, a United Nations human rights expert said on Monday, stepping into a controversy that has raged...

ISLAMABAD:  Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz on Wednesday said that the authority supports the decision of deeming triple talaq in...

UMERKOT: A women’s police squad raided a house in Sindh’s Umerkot district and stopped the marriage of an underage girl, who her relatives claim, has...

Police on Saturday foiled an attempt to marry off a 13-year-old girl to a 55-year-old man by raiding a marriage ceremony in Hasan Abdal...

ANKARA: Turkey’s religious affairs state agency came under heavy criticism on Thursday from the main opposition party after it reportedly said girls as young as...

Sukkur police have foiled a bid to marry a 12-year-old girl with a 55-year-old man, said SSP Mohammad Amjad Shaikh on Saturday. "The police had...

  A 21-year-old girl in Punjab was forced to marry her 10-year-old cousin for keeping the hereditary property within the family. According to a TV channel, brothers of...

  KARACHI: Sindh women development department on Wednesday reconstituted the provincial monitoring committee on child marriage under Section 24 of Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Rules, 2016. During...

  NEW DELHI: Copulating with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court of India said in a landmark decision to end an exception...