Gulalai had several suitors in her hometown in Pakistan, where arranged marriages are common. But the marriage proposals fell through because the families of the potential grooms demanded a hefty ...
KARACHI, Pakistan — There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 guests tucking into ...
Pakistan’s government should be alarmed by recent reports of trafficking of women and girls to China. These allegations are disturbingly similar to the pattern of trafficking of “brides” to China from ...
In this April 14, 2019 photo, Muqadas Ashraf speaks to The Associated Press in Gujranwala, Pakistan. Muqadas Ashraf was just 16 when her parents married her off to a Chinese man who had come to ...
BASTI LASHARI, Pakistan --Aasia Bibi had warned her parents time and again that if they forced her to marry her cousin, a man she disliked, she would be capable of going to any length to exit the ...
Family members turned themselves in after the murders and are now jailed A young newlywed couple in northeastern Pakistan died a horrible death at the hands of the bride’s family in the latest honor ...
KARACHI, PakistanKARACHI, Pakistan — There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 ...