Pakistani women to marry freely By Zaffar Abbas BBC correspondent in Islamabad The ruling will give women in Pakistan more choice Pakistan's supreme court has declared that adult Muslim women can marry anyone of their own free will. The ruling overturns an earlier verdict by a high court that described such a marriage without the permission of a father or brother as invalid. Pakistan's human rights campaigners have fought against the verdict for about six years. They described it as contrary to Islamic injunctions and discriminatory towards women. Legal wrangling The controversy over the right of a woman to marry...