Problems of child marriages highlighted.

QUETTA -- Collective efforts are needed at government, social and student levels to create awareness about the problems caused by child marriages and to make effective legislation to stop the practice that badly affects health of underage girls.

People from different social organisations and college students suggested this while speaking at the concluding session of the two-day conference on early marriages and related issues here on Sunday.

The programme was organised with the collaboration of NGOs Educational and Youth Empowerment Society, Blue Vans and Girls not Birds.

Prominent health experts who spoke on the conference included Ms Rifat, Dr Shahida Alizai, Sadaf Ajmal, M Razia, Farhat Zeeshan and Asma Shah and Saba Nadia Tareen.

They said that the early marriage not only affected the health of girls who suffered from fistula for the rest of their lives and faced other serious problems.

They said that early marriages deprived young underage girls of completing their education and they faced many other health and social problems.

'When girls suffer from fistula they are deprived of social gatherings as they cannot leave their homes and even could not meet family...

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