Friday, March 4, 2016

Pakistan police stop marriage of 10-year-old young lady 

Nearby town older folks had requested the marriage after the young lady's sibling was blamed for slaughtering his wife. Journalists say "vani" relational unions, where a lady is requested to wed to settle the wrongdoing of a relative, are unlawful yet stay regular in Pakistan. Police say they have captured four town older folks over the case. The vani marriage had been because of happen in Punjab's Rahimyar Khan area on Friday, yet was halted after police assaulted the town. Officers were all the while looking for almost 20 different suspects, police official Chaudhry Yasin told the BBC. 


The young lady's sibling was blamed for murdering his wife after he associated her with an undertaking. He was captured and is as of now in prison. Taking after his capture, a board of nearby town older folks, known as a panchayat, was called to settle the contention between the two families. Both families had a place with the minority Hindu group living in Rahimyar Khan, Chaudhry Yasin said. The panchayat decided that the 10-year-old young lady ought to wed the 14-year-old kid, who was a relative of the casualty, keeping in mind the end goal to settle the debate. Under Pakistani law, relatives of a homicide casualty have the privilege to acquit the culprit consequently for blood cash or a trade off, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.

Both honor killings and vani relational unions stay basic in Pakistan, with culprits from poorer and less powerful segments of society destined to be arraigned, our reporter includes.

In January, a bill that proposed raising the lawful period of marriage for ladies from 16 to 18 was pulled back after a religious body, the Council of Islamic Ideology, depicted the bill as "un-Islamic".

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