Awareness moot on negative impacts of under-age child marriage on Monday.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Population Welfare Department would host a seminar titled' Proposal for Legislation of Child Marriages Restraint Act in AJK'

to raise awareness about negative impacts of early marriages on Monday at Muzaffarabad.

The moot is being organized with the coordination and support of the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) and Population Program Wing of the National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination of the Government of Pakistan.

AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan will inaugurate the event. Dr. Mustafa Bashir, AJK minister for Population Welfare and experts including law makers from AJK and other provinces of the country would share their inputs on the topic.

Raja Muhammad Razzaque, Secretary Population Welfare Department of Azad Jammu Kashmir government told reporter here on Sunday the seminar is aimed at sensitizing the stakeholders for the implications entailed in rapid population growth in the country.

Raja Razzaque said the Council of Common Interests (CCI) while keeping in view the challenges faced by Pakistan and under the directive of Supreme Court of Pakistan...