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In Kamalia’s Jinnah Colony, an 11-year-old girl has been married to a 12-year-old boy. The girl’s father had remarried the boy’s sister.
Kamalia police say they are not aware of the incident and that they have not received a complaint. Forty-year-old Muhammad Shabbir told The Express Tribune that his wife had died a few years ago. He said he had proposed for Nabeela Bibi, 22, from Kassowal and her parents had agreed. However, he said, a few days before they were to be married, her parents demanded that he marry his daughter to their 12-year-old son on the same day. Shabbir said as a father of four daughters he needed a mother for his children, and did not want this to affect his marriage and so he agreed. Both the marriages took place two days ago. He said he did not regret having married his daughter at the young age “as the religion allowed it”. He said his daughter was happy at her in-laws.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2013.
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What's wrong with this picture? Doesn't anybody have the guts to step in and say "enough" - time to fix your moral compass.
So this man basically married his daughters sister in law. That means his wife is mother to her own brother & her husbands children are all also her sister in laws & when she has children from her husband her brother will be brother in law to his own niece/nephew. Her own brother will also become her son in law & when her brother has children she will be a grandmother to her on niece/nephew. & I thought the western way was confusing.
they'll have kids in a couple years, they'll marry their kids off when they are 12-13 years old. this couple will become grandparents when they are 24 years old. WOW!!!!!!
11 year old married to 12 year old is better than 6 year old marrying a 53 year old man.
The key word is “as the religion allowed it”
Srsly, what is wrong in the head of some people?