Shadi between one female child and an old man – Child Marriage

A wedding should be a glad and significant event for the concerned people and their families; a soul changing experience maybe that denotes the excursion from youthfulness to adulthood. Shockingly, marriage is pushed onto numerous youngsters, generally young girls, before they enter perceived adulthood. As indicated by UNICEF, Pakistan has the 6th highest number of total child brides on the planet.
Around 21% of Pakistani young girls are constrained into marriage before their eighteenth birthday celebration and three percent are hitched by the age of 15 which implies that they don’t have their say and consent in the marriage. For multiple times, their assent is not looked for. These numbers show that more than one-fifth of the families in Pakistan are framed through the encroachment on basic human rights. However, local statistics propose that the circumstances are far more terrible. As indicated by the Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13, one out of three young ladies is hitched before arriving at the age of 18.
A kid is characterized by the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act 2018 and the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2014 as an individual who is under 18 years old though in Punjab, the legitimate marriage age is as yet 16 for young ladies and 18 for young men. Despite the above mentioned legislation passed by Sindh assembly, no day is left where no case of child marriage is reported in Sindh. As of late, the Daily Kawish exposed that a 50-year-elderly person marry a 15-year-old young lady in Makli, Thatta. An NGO specialist from Kashmore uncovered that during flood in 2010 child marriages surged to the height that clearly means that poverty has a stronger link with the child marriage as the poor man wed his young daughter in order to avoid payment of debt or to have some minimal financial gains that can help that poor man to keep the soul and body relation stable.
The job of the Sindh High Court has additionally been a long way from excellent in this regard. On February 2, 2020, the high court dodged national and common laws by pronouncing that a young girl can be esteemed a grown-up as per the Sharia in the event that she has had her first menstrual cycle. This decision came to fore during a conversion case hearing, where a 14-year-old Christian young girl was kidnapped, converted over to Islam and later wedded to her abductor. Somehow child marriage despite having strong legislation could not be stopped from happening in Pakistan. Shaadee.pk condemns that practice and recommends it should be stopped by hook or crook.