The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require ...

Citing the landmark Khurshid Bibi precedent, the court reiterated that a wife’s clear declaration of hatred or inability to ...

In a landmark move to protect children, especially girls, from forced child marriages, a provincial assembly in Pakistan on ...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) condemns the ongoing practice of child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan, ...

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has upheld a family court’s decree granting khula, affirming that when a wife expresses ...

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.

Pakistani cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi has once again sparked controversy with sensational claims, this time involving Bollywood ...

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 ...

FAISALABAD, Pakistan – At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldn't bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say was that ...

ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sapna Gobia is busy preparing for her wedding in Pakistan in a few weeks. In many ways, her wedding will follow traditions passed down through generations, ...

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 ...