A Punjab Assembly standing committee has approved the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2026, setting 18 as the minimum marriage ...

A key committee of Pakistan’s Punjab Province Assembly on Monday (April 13) reportedly approved legislation that would help ...

A recent court decision in Pakistan concerning 13-year-old Maria Shehbaz has triggered significant concern among the countrys ...

An analysis of Pakistan's child marriage reform efforts and the complex challenges of protecting underage girls from minority ...

A Pakistan court’s ruling upholding a minor’s marriage sparked outrage, with the Church and activists raising concerns over ...

In the dusty village of Behal, District Layyah in South Punjab, Pakistan, a 14-year-old girl named Zunaira shared her story in an interview conducted in June 2025. She dreamed of becoming a science ...

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.

Archbishop Joseph Arshad of the Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi in Pakistan has expressed deep concern and alarm over a recent ruling by the Federal Shariat Court validating the marriage of a ...

As monsoon rains were about to break over Pakistan, 14-year-old Shamila and her 13-year-old sister Amina were married off in exchange for money, a decision their parents made to help the family ...