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Politics
  • Web Desk
  • May 19, 2025
‘Don’t force us to protest’: Fazl urges govt to halt child marriage legislation

National Assembly on Friday passed the landmark bill outlawing child marriages, declaring the solemnisation or registration of a marriage involving individuals under the age of 18 a criminal offence

child marriage bill
Pakistan
  • Muhammad Faizan Khan
  • May 16, 2025
NA passes bill criminalising child marriage under 18

Any sexual activity following such a marriage will be considered statutory rape. Anyone who facilitates, forces, or lures a minor into marriage will also be liable under rape-related charges.

Tariq Waheed Opinion
Opinion
  • Hum News
  • Mar 27, 2024
The fate of KP’s bill against child marriage

As PTI assumes government for a record third term in the province, the longstanding draft bill, with an emphasis on raising the legal age of marriage for females to 18, awaits a decisive fate

early girls marriage Pakistan 2024
Latest Pakistan
  • Web Desk
  • Jan 13, 2024
Punjab health minister calls for raising age limit to protect girls from early marriages

Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare, Dr Jamal Nasir, underscored the crucial need to raise the upper age limit for girls’ marriage.

Reporting workshop
Life
  • Web Desk
  • Sep 19, 2023
Journalism ethos: workshop held on gender-based violence and child marriage reporting

The fellowship is the flagship media initiative of the NCSW and is supported by the UNFPA and the Center for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at IBA.

Pakistan
  • Hum News
  • Aug 19, 2023
LHC orders measures against child marriage

LHC has rejected the pre-arrest bail of an individual suspected of kidnapping and subsequently raping a 14-year-old girl.

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