Recently Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) revealed that 21 percent girls in Pakistan are married under the age of 21 and the Child Marriage restraint Act of 1929 is used to regulate early age marriage in Pakistan but, it is not being seen practically. The recent marriage of girls is 16, which is unconstitutional.
The laws are not being followed by the citizens and as well as government herself is not following them that a law is enforced in Pakistan which prohibits marriage of girls below age of 16 but there is no implementation of that law and the existing law must be amended to increase the minimum age of marriage of girls to 18 years.
Apart from this, In Balochistan mortality rate is very high and it has increased from 780 to over 800 per 100,000 live births. The early age marriage is one of the major causes of Obstetric fistula among women that in Pakistan mostly women are suffering from this fatal or lethal disease. The people of Islamabad are also facing this torment or troublesome problems.
Thus, it is the government’s duty to take necessary steps to ensure that a child’s chances of survival shouldn’t be dependent on outside factors. Every child should have an equal right to survive, and this right must be ensured by using all possible means and government must eradicate child marriages in Pakistan.
Munaj Gul Muhammad – Turbat
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