Girl Forced To Marry

Police foiled an attempt to marry off a 12-year-old girl to a 72-year-old man in Charsadda town and arrested the groom, ARY News reported.

Nine people have been arrested in connection with the case, the police said.

Members of Pakistan's minority Sikh community staged a protest in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday against police inaction in a case involving the forcible marriage of a Sikh woman to a Muslim man.

The Marathwada Graduates' Constituency MLC Satish Chavan, who belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has claimed that the closure of schools and colleges is affecting the education of students.

A Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) member from Aurangabad has written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray saying the closure of schools and colleges is forcing boys to work in fields while girls are being married off at an early age.

Three people have been arrested for kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and forcefully marrying her off to a drug addict, police said on Thursday.

The Taliban issued a decree Friday in the name of their supreme leader, instructing Afghan ministries "to take serious action" on women's rights, but failed to mention girls' access to schools.

The Sindh High Court on Sunday ordered that the teenage Christian girl who was kidnapped before being forcefully converted and married to a Muslim man be shifted to a shelter home, Pakistan Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, said.

A 15-year-old Hindu girl, who was forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man in Pakistan's Sindh province, has been sent to a women protection centre following a court order, officials said.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for failing to help a teenage Sikh girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forcefully converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly forced to get married three months ago and kept captive by her cousins in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi district, the police said today.

Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands.China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to the decades-long one-child policy.

A man and his son have been arrested for allegedly abducting a 15-year-old girl from Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district. The duo intended to get her married to the elder son, who is in love with her, police said Thursday.

In 2016, Britain's diplomatic mission in Bangladesh helped an 18-year-old British girl escape from a village in the South Asian nation just days before she was being forced to marry her first cousin.

It took courage for Srujana (name changed) to speak up against the man she called Daddy'. Eight years ago, he had married her widowed mother and virtually adopted Srujana and her sister. In April, after the 13-year-old had her first periods, he sexually assaulted her when her mother was away at work. He told her if she told anyone, he would not loo...

Police foiled an attempt to marry off a 12-year-old girl to a 72-year-old man in Charsadda town and arrested the groom, ARY News reported.

Nine people have been arrested in connection with the case, the police said.

Members of Pakistan's minority Sikh community staged a protest in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday against police inaction in a case involving the forcible marriage of a Sikh woman to a Muslim man.

The Marathwada Graduates' Constituency MLC Satish Chavan, who belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has claimed that the closure of schools and colleges is affecting the education of students.

A Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) member from Aurangabad has written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray saying the closure of schools and colleges is forcing boys to work in fields while girls are being married off at an early age.

Three people have been arrested for kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and forcefully marrying her off to a drug addict, police said on Thursday.

The Taliban issued a decree Friday in the name of their supreme leader, instructing Afghan ministries "to take serious action" on women's rights, but failed to mention girls' access to schools.

The Sindh High Court on Sunday ordered that the teenage Christian girl who was kidnapped before being forcefully converted and married to a Muslim man be shifted to a shelter home, Pakistan Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, said.

A 15-year-old Hindu girl, who was forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man in Pakistan's Sindh province, has been sent to a women protection centre following a court order, officials said.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for failing to help a teenage Sikh girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forcefully converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly forced to get married three months ago and kept captive by her cousins in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi district, the police said today.

Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands.China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to the decades-long one-child policy.

A man and his son have been arrested for allegedly abducting a 15-year-old girl from Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district. The duo intended to get her married to the elder son, who is in love with her, police said Thursday.

In 2016, Britain's diplomatic mission in Bangladesh helped an 18-year-old British girl escape from a village in the South Asian nation just days before she was being forced to marry her first cousin.

It took courage for Srujana (name changed) to speak up against the man she called Daddy'. Eight years ago, he had married her widowed mother and virtually adopted Srujana and her sister. In April, after the 13-year-old had her first periods, he sexually assaulted her when her mother was away at work. He told her if she told anyone, he would not loo...