Two Hindu sisters, aged 13 and 14, allegedly abducted, converted to Islam and married off in Pakistan's Sindh province, begged a court to let them go home. The court sent them to a safe house. In Sindh, marrying a child is a crime. Converting one, as clerics keep reminding lawmakers, has no age limit.
Since 2025, Iraqi couples can trade the civil family law for a Shia religious code. It sets marriage at puberty, accepts weddings with no witness and no register, hands children to their fathers at seven, and lets a woman divorce only if she is abandoned, unpaid or repeatedly beaten. Iraqi women fought to make the reform less terrible. Six months later, parliament made it worse.
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