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Pakistani teenager seeks protection from 'Swara'
Friday October 14, 2011 08:07:50 AM,
IANS
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Islamabad: A Pakistani
teenaged girl who sought protection from Swara, a practice in
which little girls are married off to members of rival families to
settle old feuds, has been sent to a shelter home on court orders,
a media report said.
Zar Wali Wednesday appeared before the Chief Justice of the
Peshawar High Court, Ejaz Afzal Khan, with a written request that
she be protected from her brother and mother, who wanted to marry
her to an 80-year-old man already having children and
grandchildren, the Dawn reported.
The chief justice converted her request into a petition and put on
notice her family members, the advocate general and officials of
Daudzai police station before fixing the hearing for Oct 20.
He also ordered police to shift the girl to Darul Aman (shelter
home) after she claimed she had no place to live.
Her family lives in the Daudzai area of Peshawar, the capital of
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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