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Violence against children continues unabated in Pakistan's Punjab province
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): As Pakistan continues to witness a rise in crimes against children including child sexual abuse, abduction and child marriages, citizens in the Punjab province seem to get no respite from the current crime situation.
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Golden Matrimonial Services: Making dreams come true
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI/Digpu): Giving wings to over 1,500 dream marriages, India's leading matrimonial firm, specializing in Punjabi, Sikh, Khatri, Arora, Baniya and Aggarwal community profiles with huge database of HNIs, NRIs and upper middle class, was born in 1999 when its fou
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Overseas Pakistani Christian group holds demonstration against kidnapping,
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], June 13 (ANI): Overseas Pakistani Christian alliance organised a demonstration jointly with Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) against kidnapping, forced conversion, forced marriages of Pakistani minor Christian's girls before Dutch Parliament on Saturday.
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Child marriages on rise in Yemen, girls forced to marry after 12 years
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Sana'a [Yemen], May 26 (ANI): Child marriages are on the rise in Yemen with girls in the country forced to marry soon after they turn 12 years-old.
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Rising cases of child marriage cause concern in Pak
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): Child marriage is the most horrifying among the many serious poverty-related issues plaguing Pakistan, experts said.
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Crimes against children in Pakistan on the rise, 8 children abused every d
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 10 (ANI): Pakistan witnessed a rise in crimes against children including child sexual abuse, abduction and child marriages, and eight children were abused every day in the country in one form or another in 2020, according to a report.
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80 pc Covid-19 cases in Punjab have UK variant; marriages, farmers' protes
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harshvardhan on Tuesday said that 80 per cent of Covid-19 cases in Punjab has UK variant of the virus and asserted that the reasons behind the surge in fresh infections could be marriages, local body elections and farmer protests.
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Refrain from dowry, extravaganza during marriages: AIMPLB's new nikahnama
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has released a new nikahnama for Muslims which urges them to take a pledge to refrain from dowry and extravaganza during marriages.
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Mirzapur: Muslim body to boycott nikah ceremony where dowry, music are par
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 1 (ANI): An influential Muslim body in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur -- Markazi Sunni Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind -- has said they will not solemnise Muslim marriages if dowry will be a part of it.
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Agra Muslims vow to stop exchange of dowry after woman dies by suicide in
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 7 (ANI): A section of the Muslim community in Agra vowed to stop the exchange of dowry in all the marriages of its community here after a woman died by suicide in Ahmedabad after being allegedly harassed by her husband.
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Delhi HC adjourns hearing of pleas on same-sex marriages till 20 April
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 25 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned various petitions which hearing for the petitions of same-sex marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act, the Special Marriage Act, and the Foreign Marriage Act to 20 April.
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UK urged to pressure Pakistan to hold those responsible for forced convers
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 23 (ANI): Underlining that Pakistan government narrative and policies have consistently been anti-Hindu, the World Sindhi Congress, an NGO, urged the United Kingdom to pressure Islamabad to hold all parties and community members accountable for forced conversions an
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