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Marriage of underage girls

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Too Young to Marry, Old Enough to Convert

Two Hindu sisters, aged 13 and 14, allegedly abducted, converted to Islam and married off in Pakistan's Sindh province, begged a court to let them go home. The court sent them to a safe house. In Sindh, marrying a child is a crime. Converting one, as clerics keep reminding lawmakers, has no age limit.

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