Seminar highlights disadvantages of underage marriages
(WorldNews Pakistan)

PESHAWAR: Students, academics and civil society activists got together at a seminar on underage marriages at the University of Peshawar campus on Monday. The event was held at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication under the aegis of Centre for Communication Programmes Pakistan, an advocacy and rights organisation. Tahir Abbas, the CCPP advocacy specialist, told the participants that the organisation works in the sphere of development communication to improve people’s life by working on health issues and campaign to discourage underage marriages. He said the CCPP works to raise awareness about the consequences of underage marriages and push efforts for legislation from the...