A New York woman has become an unlikely viral hit after her trip to Pakistan to marry a teenager she met online turned into a series of bizarre exploits as she refused to leave the country, demanded ...

Marriage remains one of Pakistan's most enduring social institutions, yet new findings from a series of Gallup & Gilani Pakistan surveys paint a complex picture of evolving attitudes toward marital ...

A forced marriage is where one or both people do not consent to the marriage and pressure, or abuse, is used to force them ...

Shahida Bibi, a Pakistani Christian girl, was only 11 years old when her mother left her father for a Muslim man and handed over her daughter to her new husband’s brother. “He basically kept her as a ...

The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require ...

A Polish woman who befriended a Pakistani man on social media has traveled to Sargodha, embraced Islam, and married him in a ...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) condemns the ongoing practice of child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan, ...

LAHORE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clerics in Pakistan’s most populous province of Punjab will be punished if they allow underage marriages along with the parents of the youngsters under tougher ...

Catholics in Pakistan are protesting a judge's decision not to intervene after a 44-year-old man allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old Catholic girl, forced her to convert to Islam, and then married her.

A Pakistani customer looks at a book by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai at a bookstore in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 30. (B.K. Bangash/AP) In Pakistan — a country where 86 percent of ...