Stop forced marriages of girls: Raza

Sindh Minister for Women Development Shehla Raza has urged the parents for raising voice to stop girls' kidnapping and to protect them from forced marriage.

The minister was addressing a press conference on the alleged kidnapping of Umm -i- Hania.

Raza said that the Department of Women Development is the voice of oppressed parents, so parents should raise their voices fearlessly against the atrocities against girls in the society. She said that according to Haniya's parents, their daughter is 11 years old and she had been kidnapped for forced marriage.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 22^nd, 2022.