Gulalai had several suitors in her hometown in Pakistan, where arranged marriages are common. But the marriage proposals fell through because the families of the potential grooms demanded a hefty ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 guests tucking into ...

Pakistan’s government should be alarmed by recent reports of trafficking of women and girls to China. These allegations are disturbingly similar to the pattern of trafficking of “brides” to China from ...

JAMPUR, Pakistan — Mohammad Ramzan can neither hear nor speak, and he has a childlike mind. But he knew his wife, Saima, was too young when she was given to him as a bride. The 36-year-old Ramzan ...

BASTI LASHARI, Pakistan --Aasia Bibi had warned her parents time and again that if they forced her to marry her cousin, a man she disliked, she would be capable of going to any length to exit the ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than a dozen leaders of a small village in northwestern Pakistan were arrested Thursday and charged with burning a teenage girl to death because she helped one of her friends ...

Pakistan Bride Market: Its no secret that Pakistan has essentially turned into a vassal state of China due to the overwhelming debt it owes Beijing, forcing Islamabad to hand over control of strategic ...

A model presents a creation on the first day of the Neo HUM Bridal Couture Week in Lahore, Pakistan on Dec. 20, 2024. A three-day bridal fashion week kicked off in Lahore on Friday. (Photo: Xinhua) A ...