Three-Year-Old Child Bride Sold to 60-Year-Old Man in Pakistan
Police say the father was arrested and the alleged husband is being sought as investigators examine possible links to an earlier killing.
- Chaman police arrested Abdul Baqi after investigating the alleged marriage of his 3-year-old daughter, Babbo, to 60-year-old Salah Uddin, who remains at large.
- The alleged arrangement involved a walwar payment of 2.5 million Pakistani rupees, around $9,000, violating Balochistan's 2025 Child Marriages Restraint Act, which sets the minimum marriage age at 18.
- Investigators are exploring potential links between this case and the death of the girl's older sister, Shukria Bibi, who was killed in Kuchlak about two weeks earlier; police previously arrested her husband, Kamran.
- Babbo and her mother are currently under police protection as officials confirmed the marriage existed only on paper because the full walwar payment was never made.
- Islamic cleric Hafiz Iqbal Muhammed stated that "marriage in Islam is based on mutual consent" and Islamic teachings do not prescribe walwar; child marriage remains a significant problem in Pakistan despite long-term decline.
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Pakistan: 3-Year-Old Girl Married to 60-Year-Old Man for PKR 2.5 Million Under ‘Walwar’ | 🌎 LatestLY
A case involving an alleged child marriage has emerged from Chaman in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, where police say a three-year-old girl was allegedly married to a 60-year-old man for PKR 2.5 million under the traditional practice of ‘walwar’. Police arrested the girl’s father, Abdul Baqi, while the alleged husband, Salah Uddin, remains absconding. 🌎 Pakistan: 3-Year-Old Girl Married to 60-Year-Old Man for PKR 2.5 Million Under ‘Walwar’.
A father is said to have promised his only three-year-old daughter for 2.5 million rupees to a man about 60 years old to marry. Her older sister had already been married for money at the age of 13 – and was later allegedly killed by her husband. While Baluchistan now bans such marriages, the Islamist JUI-F takes to court against fixed age limits. She explicitly invokes Koran, Sunna and classical Islamic law.
Father Arrested After Three-Year-Old Girl Is Allegedly Sold to a 60-Year-Old Man in a 'Walwar' Exchange
Police in Chaman arrested a father over an alleged marriage arrangement involving his three-year-old daughter and a 60-year-old man, while investigators examine related family tensions.
Pakistani father tries to sell his own daughter, three, as child bride to 60-year-old man
A Pakistani father attempted to sell his own three-year-old daughter as a child bride to a 60-year-old man.Police arrested Abdul Baqi, from the border city of Chaman in Balochistan, sold his daughter to Salah Uddin for 2.5million Pakistani rupees (£6,802).The marriage is part of an "ancient tradition" called "walwar", where the family of the bride receives funds for marrying off his daughter.Local authorities quickly investigated the incident - …
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