Pakistan Marriage
Bizarre: Pakistan's Sindh lawmaker proposes law to make marriage compulsory for youth turning 18
Islamabad: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) MPA Syed Abdul Rasheed submitted a draft of "The Sindh Compulsory Marriage Act, 2021" to the Sindh Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday which is bizarrely seeking to make marriage compulsory for people aged 18.
The draft of the proposed bill, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, stated that the parents of an adult who is not being married off after turning 18 will have to "submit an undertaking with justified reason of delay before the Deputy Commissioner of the District".
Parents who fail to submit the undertaking would have to pay a fine of Rs 500 each, it added.
"This will bring well-being in the society," the objects and reasons section of the draft states.
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