Pakistan’s parliament on Monday (May 19) passed a significant bill aiming to curb, discourage and eventually eradicate child marriages in the federal capital by raising the legal age of marriage for ...

The Punjab Province Assembly in Pakistan on Monday (April 27) passed a landmark bill aimed at curbing child marriage ...

The dust had barely settled after the controversial ruling by Pakistan’s top constitutional court, upholding the marriage of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a 30-year-old Muslim man, when the Punjab ...

Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...

Archbishop Joseph Arshad of the Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi in Pakistan has expressed deep concern and alarm over a recent ruling by the Federal Shariat Court validating the marriage of a ...

Catholic leaders called the new law a 'defining move' to safeguard childhood but said enforcement and unresolved consent ...

Punjab’s provincial assembly passed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2026, setting the minimum marriage age at 18 for boys ...

A UN-appointed body has urged Pakistan to intensify efforts to eradicate forced conversions/marriages, noting that young ...

A United Nations Human Rights Office report has found that young girls and women belonging to Pakistan’s minority communities continue to be abducted and forced to convert to Islam through marriage.

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 decision their parents made to help the family ...