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Pakistan must act to end forced child marriage: UN experts
GENEVA: UN rights experts on Monday deplored a reported rise in abductions, forced marriages and conversions of girls from Pakistan’s religious minorities, urging the government to swiftly halt such practices.“We are deeply troubled to hear that girls as young as 13 are being kidnapped from their families, trafficked to locations far from their homes, made to marry men sometimes twice their age, and coerced to convert to Islam,“ the experts said.“We are very concerned that such marriages and conversions take place under threat of violence to these girls and women, or their families.”The experts called on Pakistan’s government “to take immediate steps to prevent and thoroughly investigate the

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