Father Marries Off Three-Year-Old Daughter to ‘Settle Dispute Over Alleged Affair’
15th March 2017
A three-year-old girl has been forced into marriage in order to settle a dispute between her father and another man, it has been reported.
The child has been married to a nine-year-old boy in Pakistan’s Neelum Valley, in the province of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, after her father failed to pay a penalty for allegedly having an affair Dawn.com reports.
Pakistani police have called the incident a case of Vani, a custom in which young girls are forced to be married by way of punishment for a crime committed by a male relative.