{"id":81815,"date":"2025-05-31T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T03:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=81815"},"modified":"2025-05-31T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T03:56:33","slug":"bill-to-curb-child-marriage-enacted-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/bill-to-curb-child-marriage-enacted-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to curb child marriage enacted into law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>legislation<br \/>\nIslamabad<br \/>\nPresident Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2025 into law, setting the minimum age for marriage at 18 years in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).<br \/>\nThe new legislation criminalises the solemnisation of marriages where either the boy or girl is underage.<br \/>\nUnder the law, no Nikah khuwan (marriage officiant) may conduct a marriage involving minors, with violations punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of Rs100,000.<br \/>\nAdditionally, a man over 18 who marries an underage girl may face up to three years of rigorous imprisonment.<br \/>\nThe bill also empowers courts to intervene if informed of an underage marriage, including protecting the identity of those reporting such cases.<br \/>\nPPP Senator Sherry Rehman hailed the bill as a landmark victory in the fight against child marriage, describing it as a crucial step toward protecting the rights of women and children.<br \/>\n\u201cThis law is a result of a long and difficult struggle, and it will help improve the education and health of young girls,\u201d said Rehman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>legislation Islamabad President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2025 into law, setting the minimum age for marriage at 18 years in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). The new legislation criminalises the solemnisation of marriages where either the boy or girl is underage. Under the law, no Nikah khuwan (marriage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":81822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81823,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81815\/revisions\/81823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}