Pakistan’s Prohibition of Child Marriages Act stipulates that the age of marriage is 16 for women and 18 for men
A council that advises the Pakistani government and parliament ruled Tuesday that the country’s laws banning child marriage are “un-Islamic.”
The Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional recommendatory body that gives legal counsel to the government but can’t make its own laws, advised the government that Sharia law sets no minimum age for marriage, so laws prohibiting underage individuals from getting married do not adhere to Islamic principles.
It added that according to Islamic doctrine, the consummation of the marriage, called Rukshati, should only happen when both husband and wife have reached puberty.
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