Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approves lifting of ban on underage marriage

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reportedly given his approval for the removal of the law banning underage marriage as well as the law regarding the second marriage of a man with the permission of his first wife.

Sharif’s move comes two days after the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) decreed that laws on the minimum age of marriage were not in line with Islam and that children of any age can be married. This decree came at the end of the CII’s 191st meeting in Islamabad.

CII chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani observed that the laws related to marriage were unfair and that there cannot be any minimum age for marriage.

According to news reports, the council said the ban on child marriage does not hold ground and that children can get married at an early age. The bride can be bid to her husband’s household for the consummation of their marriage once she reaches puberty, added the council.

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