Bill seeking to raise Christians’ marriage age to 18 submitted to Punjab Assembly panel

LAHORE: In a historic move to dismantle colonial-era legal barriers, a bill was submitted in the Punjab Assembly’s Standing Committee on Minority Affairs on Thursday, seeking a raise in the minimum marriage age of Christians to 18. This bill seeks to resolve decades of hurdles in documentation that have left many Christian marriages unrecognised by union councils and the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra). The proposed ‘Christian Marriage Act Bill, 2026’ was submitted as a p...

By [email protected] (Amjad Mahmood)