Citing the landmark Khurshid Bibi precedent, the court reiterated that a wife’s clear declaration of hatred or inability to ...
The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require ...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has upheld a family court’s decree granting khula, affirming that when a wife expresses ...
In a landmark move to protect children, especially girls, from forced child marriages, a provincial assembly in Pakistan on ...
A Polish woman who befriended a Pakistani man on social media has traveled to Sargodha, embraced Islam, and married him in a ...
Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously approved the raising of the minimum legal age for marriage to 18 earlier this month, amending a 19th-century law allowing the marriage of Christian children.
Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Catholic girl in Pakistan whom a 44-year-old man allegedly kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and married, has been recovered and is in protective custody. Raja, who is ...
A Pakistani customer looks at a book by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai at a bookstore in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 30. (B.K. Bangash/AP) In Pakistan — a country where 86 percent of ...