LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) When police raided a marriage ceremony in
Karachi on Wednesday (May 14) and found a 46-year-old groom about to
marry his 14-year-old bride, the wedding didn’t come as a shock to most
here in this conservative Muslim country — the raid did.
The bride told police her marriage had been consensual, police
officials said. Her age was listed as 18 on the marriage certificate.
Marrying off girls as young as 10 is still a widespread practice in
Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere in Asia and Africa, despite the
prohibition of child marriage in some existing national and provincial
laws. Between 2000 and 2010, about 24.4 million women between the ages
of 20 and 24 were married before the age of 18, according to a report by the United Nations Population Fund.
See link below for more:
Muslim clerics resist Pakistan's efforts to end child marriage | Religion News Service
Karachi on Wednesday (May 14) and found a 46-year-old groom about to
marry his 14-year-old bride, the wedding didn’t come as a shock to most
here in this conservative Muslim country — the raid did.
The bride told police her marriage had been consensual, police
officials said. Her age was listed as 18 on the marriage certificate.
Marrying off girls as young as 10 is still a widespread practice in
Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere in Asia and Africa, despite the
prohibition of child marriage in some existing national and provincial
laws. Between 2000 and 2010, about 24.4 million women between the ages
of 20 and 24 were married before the age of 18, according to a report by the United Nations Population Fund.
See link below for more:
Muslim clerics resist Pakistan's efforts to end child marriage | Religion News Service
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