JACOBABAD: The police detained a man after learning that he had sold his minor daughter into wedlock.In Jacobabad, a father attempted to marry off his 12-year-old daughter to a man in exchange for $300,000.
While the groom escaped, the police stopped the wedding and detained the father.
A case has been filed, and further investigation is ongoing, according to the police.
In Pakistan, getting married before turning 16 is against the law. However, child marriages are common in the nation.
Marriage before the age of 18 is a “basic violation of human rights,” according to UNICEF.The only province in Pakistan, Sindh, has modernised a law issued in 1929 and outlawed unions between minors under the age of 18.According to Punjab’s Child Marriage Restraint Ordinance of 1971, 16 is the minimum age for marriage.
