Umar Sajjad Chaven Rabia Mustafa In the case Mst. ALISHBA BIBI v. the STATE and 7 others reported as (PLD 2020 Islamabad 28), the Islamabad High Court issued the following directions to the authorities concerned to curb the evil of child marriages from the society…
Sharafat A. Chaudhry Rabia Mustafa Marriage is a formalized, binding partnership between consenting adults, which sanctions sexual relations and gives legitimacy to any offspring. Child marriage, on the other hand, involves either one or both spouses being children and may take place with or without…
Rabia Mustafa, Sharafat A. Chaudhary Background Pakistan has been at the vanguard of the international movement for the protection of the rights of children. Pakistan was one of the six countries that initiated the World Summit for Children in 1990 to highlight concern about the…

