"I was happy to hear I was getting married... I thought my life would become easier," Shamila told AFP after her wedding to a man twice her age in hope of a more prosperous life.
The tradition of marrying close family members is rapidly declining in Pakistan, with rising awareness of genetic disorders. Sonia Sarkar reports Syed Hashim Haider, a 29 year old software engineer in ...
and other foreign organisations have been paying more attention to Pakistan’s human rights situation. Child marriages, forced religious conversions, and the abuse of blasphemy laws are some of the ...