London, May 16 (PTI) A husband and wife from the East Midlands region of England have been convicted of child marriage offences after arranging to take their two teenage sons to Pakistan for nikah.

The dust had barely settled after the controversial ruling by Pakistan’s top constitutional court, upholding the marriage of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a 30-year-old Muslim man, when the Punjab ...

A couple from Nottingham have avoided jail despite arranging to fly two teenage boys to Pakistan to be married. The ...

Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...

Child marriage is not a tradition we can afford to romanticise. It is a violation of childhood, consent and opportunity. Defined as any formal or informal union where one or both parties are under 18, ...

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 ...

A United Nations Human Rights Office report has found that young girls and women belonging to Pakistan’s minority communities continue to be abducted and forced to convert to Islam through marriage.

A 50-year-old man was arrested for marrying a 13-year-old girl under Pakistan's newly enacted law against child marriage in ...

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 ...