In Pakistan, where traditional matchmakers, or "Rishta Aunties," have long played a pivotal role in arranging marriages, a new wave of digital disruption is challenging the established norms. Marriage ...
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.
Some months ago, I met with two teenage girls at a shelter home in Karachi, who shared their stories of resilience and ...
FILE PHOTO: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, gestures as he speaks to the members of the media at his residence in Lahore By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD (Reuters) ...
She immediately felt that something was off. Reeha Saleem had walked these streets a thousand times. Her school was not too far away from her home in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Usually, she felt ...
A 15-year-old Hindu girl in Sindh, Pakistan, was reportedly abducted, raped, forcibly converted to Islam, and married. She ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. What’s the current status of the United States’s tortured, convoluted, unhappy marriage with Pakistan? If ...
An asylum seeker jailed for a sham marriage with a schoolgirl has married her again in a bid to live in Britain, The ...
LAHORE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clerics in Pakistan’s most populous province of Punjab will be punished if they allow underage marriages along with the parents of the youngsters under tougher ...
ROMEROME — Italian police on Thursday took into custody in Pakistan a Pakistani man who is on trial in Italy for the murder of his daughter after she refused family demands to marry a cousin in their ...