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Islamabad: You will be shocked to know the act of a father in Pakistan. You will wonder how a father can do such a thing. In Pakistan, a father handed over his 12 year old daughter to a 72 year old man. The old man was planning to marry the 12 year old innocent girl. But the police got this information at the right time. The police immediately saved the girl from getting trapped in the clutches of the old man.
It is being said that the girl’s father had allegedly agreed to sell his daughter for 500,000 Pakistani rupees. According to local media, the case is related to Peshawar in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where police have arrested a 72-year-old man for attempting to marry a 12-year-old girl. Police reached the spot before the Nikaah could take place and nabbed him.
Sold daughter’s honor for 5 lakhs
It is alleged that the girl’s father Alam Syed had agreed to sell his daughter to 72-year-old groom Habib Khan for 500,000 Pakistani rupees. The police arrested Habib Khan, but the girl’s father managed to escape from the spot. A case has been registered against the 72-year-old man and the girl’s father under the Child Marriage Restraint Act. The Nikah registrar involved in the arrangement was also arrested.
Pakistan has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with an estimated 30 per cent of girls married before the age of 18. The legal age for marriage is 16, but enforcement remains a challenge. According to UNICEF, a staggering 18.9 million girls in Pakistan are married before the age of 18, and 4.6 million are married before they turn 16. (ANI)
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