Digital Desk: A legislator informed the consultation group that a draught anti-child marriage bill has been pending before the Balochistan Assembly for the past eight years.
A committee made up of
all stakeholders will be formed to start a conversation about "Child
marriage" in order to reach an agreement among all parties, according to
the consultation, which was held in collaboration with the Education and Youth
Empowerment Society and Girls, not Brides.
A National Party
lawmaker named Shama Ishaq claimed that obstacles erected by other parties were
the cause of the delay.
Rubaba Khan Buledi,
the Parliamentary Secretary for Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Science, and
Technology in Balochistan, presided over the meeting.
Several attendees
voiced worry over the opposition to the child marriage bill shown by religious
organisations and other groups.
Female lawmakers
claimed that while female MPAs made every attempt to reach agreement on the age
limit and convinced the male members to support the child marriage measure,
they were met with vehement opposition from lawmakers from religious parties on
the matter.
In order to get the
Council of Islamic Ideology's (CII) view on the age limit issue, the bill was
twice forwarded to the CII, according to Buledi and Parliamentary Secretary for
Women's Development Mahjabeen Sheeran.
Dawn stated that even
though the CII chairman had provided his suggestions, the council was once more
given the opportunity to consider them.
Dr. Buledi and the
chairwoman of the Balochistan Commission on the Status of Women, Fauzia
Shaheen, proposed the formation of a special committee that would meet with the
leaders of the political parties and seek their agreement for a consensus on
the legal age for child marriage.
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